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