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1 libconstrainedcrypto provides a random set of basic crypto algorithms
2 originating from Google-internal code.
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4 This is *NOT* a general purpose crypto library. Our goal is to standardize on
5 only one native crypto library for the Android platform, and that library is
6 BoringSSL. Wherever possible, you should prefer BoringSSL's libcrypto over
7 libconstrainedcrypto. In particular, all code running in Android user space
8 should use BoringSSL.
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10 There a few rare exceptions where BoringSSL is can't be used yet (such as
11 bare-bones bootloaders etc.). There is a plan to reduce BoringSSL' libcrypto's
12 dependency footprint to make libcrypto usable in these environments as well
13 though.
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15 A number of projects still rely on libconstrainedcrypto (formerly known as
16 libmincrypt) due to historic reasons, the goal is to clean these up and switch
17 them over to BoringSSL wherever possible.
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