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+SteelCrypt
+==========
+
+SteelCrypt is a open-source and free crypto library written in Ada.
+
+The aims are:
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+* provide a unified, generic and easy to use API
+* provide secure and safe implementations which maybe get formal verification (somewhere in the distant future)
+* implement the algorithms in an efficient way
+
+This is preliminary work to implement a secure and safe TLS library.
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