From 05251e09c97f60919c703d4a9c3d08b9c5abc737 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Love=20H=C3=B6rnquist=20=C3=85strand?= Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:03:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] History of hcrypto. git-svn-id: svn://svn.h5l.se/heimdal/trunk/heimdal@23051 ec53bebd-3082-4978-b11e-865c3cabbd6b --- lib/hcrypto/doxygen.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/hcrypto/doxygen.c b/lib/hcrypto/doxygen.c index 3fc5ab263..86279dcdc 100644 --- a/lib/hcrypto/doxygen.c +++ b/lib/hcrypto/doxygen.c @@ -69,6 +69,17 @@ * Return values are diffrent in this module to be compatible with * OpenSSL interface. The diffrence is that on success 1 is returned * instead of the customary 0. + + * @subsection History + * + * Eric Young implemented DES in the library libdes, that grew into + * libcrypto in the ssleay package. ssleay went into recession and + * then got picked up by the OpenSSL (htp://www.openssl.org/) + * project. + * + * libhcrypto is an independent implementation with no code decended + * from ssleay/openssl. Both includes some common imported code, for + * example the AES implementation. */ /** @defgroup hcrypto_dh Diffie-Hellman functions