[ANNOUNCE] libkcapi v0.12.0 released

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Hi,

The Linux kernel exports a network interface of type AF_ALG to allow user 
space to utilize the kernel crypto API. libkcapi uses this network interface 
and exports an easy to use API so that a developer does not need to consider 
the low-level network interface handling. 

The library does not implement any low level cipher algorithms. All consumer 
requests are sent to the kernel for processing. Results from the kernel crypto 
API are returned to the consumer via the library API.

The kernel interface and therefore this library can be used by unprivileged 
processes.

The library code archive also provides a drop-in replacement for the command 
line tools of sha*sum, fipscheck/fipshmac and sha512hmac.

The source code and the documentation is available at [1].

[1] http://www.chronox.de/libkcapi.html

Ciao
Stephan
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