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