Lifecycle guide for Nettle from Niels Moeller

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-01-21

What is Nettle?

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Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or less any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages (C++, Python, Pike, ...), in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space. In most contexts, you need more than the basic cryptographic algorithms, you also need some way to keep track of available algorithms, their properties and variants. You often have some algorithm selection process, often dictated by a protocol you want to implement.

The entire lifecycle of Nettle

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Nettle. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.