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diff --git a/doc/faq.rst b/doc/faq.rst index 429c6340b..0b7170e4c 100644 --- a/doc/faq.rst +++ b/doc/faq.rst @@ -220,20 +220,25 @@ The most common stumbling block is a compiler that is buggy or can't handle modern C++ (specifically, C++98). Check out the :doc:`build log <build_log>` for a sense of which platforms are actively being tested. -Versions 1.11.0 and higher require a C++11 compiler. GCC 4.7.0 and -Clang 3.1 are known to work well. +Versions 1.11.0 and higher require a C++11 compiler as well as various +Boost libraries (especially filesystem but also asio and regex). GCC +4.7.0 and Clang 3.1 are known to work well. I'm not feeling this, what can I use instead? ------------------------------------------------------------ -* `Crypto++ <http://www.cryptopp.com/>`_ is another C++ crypto - library. Its API is more heavily based on templates and in general - has a very different design philosophy from botan - so if you feel - botan's API is not a good match, you may well like Crypto++. +* `NaCl <http://nacl.cr.yp.to/>`_ (and portable derivatives such as + `libsodium <https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium>`_) provide a + small selection of algorithms for ECC key exchange (Curve25519) and + message encryption and authentication (XSalsa20+Poly1305) carefully + implemented for performance and side channel security. It is an + excellent choice if you do not need compatability with any other + software. * `OpenSSL <http://www.openssl.org>`_ is written in C and mostly targeted to being an SSL/TLS implementation but there is a lot of other stuff in there as well. -* `Adam Shostack <http://www.homeport.org/~adam/crypto/>`_ maintains a - (somewhat out of date) list of open source crypto libraries. +* `Crypto++ <http://www.cryptopp.com/>`_ is a C++ crypto library. Its + API is quite different from botans, and it offers a number of + algorithms botan does not (such as MQV). |