macOS
Homebrewverifiziert · 100%
brew install nettlelocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsverifiziert · 94%
sudo port install nettleMacPorts ports tree · devel/nettle/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com
brew
nettle mit Homebrew, apk, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, apt installieren
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Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Linux
Alpine Linux apkverifiziert · 92%
sudo apk add nettleAlpine Linux edge package indexes · nettle · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%
sudo dnf install nettleFedora Rawhide package metadata · nettle · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixverifiziert · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#nettlenixpkgs package indexes · nettle · Quelle: raw.githubusercontent.com
Arch Linux pacmanverifiziert · 92%
sudo pacman -S nettleArch Linux sync databases · nettle · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%
sudo zypper install nettleopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · nettle · Quelle: download.opensuse.org
Debian aptverifiziert · 92%
sudo apt install libhogweed6t64Debian stable package indexes · libhogweed6t64 · Quelle: deb.debian.org
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
Low-level cryptographic library
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- nettle-hash
- nettle-lfib-stream
- nettle-pbkdf2
- pkcs1-conv
- sexp-conv
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
Nettle is a low-level C cryptographic library by Niels Moller. Its design goal is deliberately narrow: provide reusable primitive implementations and simple interfaces while leaving algorithm selection, memory allocation, I/O, and higher-level protocol policy to callers.
Projektgeschichte
The Nettle manual says the library is meant to fit many contexts, including object-oriented language toolkits, applications such as LSH or GnuPG, and even kernel space. It explains the core design by saying Nettle does the low-level crypto work and avoids algorithm selection, memory allocation, and I/O so higher-level toolkits can build their own interfaces on top.
Niels Moller's June 30, 2009 GNU announcement says Nettle 2.0 had been released on June 8, 2009 and that Nettle had become a GNU package. The same announcement highlights the 2.0 ABI break that split the library into libnettle for symmetric algorithms and libhogweed for public-key algorithms that depend on GMP.
The upstream GitLab tags show the later 3.x and 4.x release cadence: 3.10 on June 16, 2024, 3.10.2 on June 26, 2025, and 4.0 on February 4, 2026. Homebrew's nettle formula tracked stable 4.0 from the GNU mirror and depends on GMP.
Adoptionsgeschichte
Nettle's ecosystem role is much larger than its command-line tools suggest. The GnuTLS manual says its cryptographic library layer supports libnettle, and notes that older GnuTLS versions used libgcrypt before switching to nettle mainly for performance and secondarily because it was simpler to use.
Package-manager adoption is broad: the av.db input records Nettle across Homebrew, Alpine, Debian/Ubuntu via libhogweed, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, and openSUSE. Homebrew analytics generated on 2026-07-01 reported 780,093 nettle installs over 365 days, but only 8,600 installs-on-request, which is classic library behavior: most installs arrive as dependencies.
Wie es verwendet wird
Application developers include headers such as nettle/sha2.h and link with -lnettle for symmetric/hash code, or use libhogweed for public-key functionality that depends on GMP. The manual's SHA256 example demonstrates the intended low-level style: explicit context structs, caller-managed buffers, explicit lengths, and no hidden allocation.
End users usually meet Nettle through dependent software rather than by typing its bundled commands. The Homebrew formula exposes tools such as nettle-hash, nettle-pbkdf2, pkcs1-conv, sexp-conv, and nettle-lfib-stream, but its practical importance is as a crypto backend for TLS/security stacks and other packages.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
Nettle is a package nerd's dependency graph landmark. It is small enough to audit as a C library, old enough to have stable ABI expectations, and important enough that a major version line matters to large formula rebuilds. The libnettle/libhogweed split is also a clean example of packaging ABI boundaries following real dependency boundaries.
Zeitleiste
- 2001: The manual-history sources identify Nettle as originally written by Niels Moller in the early 2000s.
- 2009-06-08: Nettle 2.0 was released.
- 2009-06-30: Nettle was announced as a GNU package.
- 2024-06-16: Upstream tagged Nettle 3.10.
- 2025-06-26: Upstream tagged Nettle 3.10.2.
- 2026-02-04: Upstream tagged Nettle 4.0.
- 2026-07-01: Homebrew API reported stable version 4.0 and 780,093 installs over 365 days.
Quellen
- https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/nettle.json
- https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/-/tags
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2009-07/msg00000.html
- https://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Cryptographic-Backend.html
- https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
- https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/nettle.html
Sicherheitslage
Noch keine Protected-Tool-Abdeckung gefunden
Für nettle wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.
Installationsverhalten
- In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
- Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
- Installiert mit 1 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.
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Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
nettle-hash | cli | globales Executable | |
nettle-lfib-stream | cli | globales Executable | |
nettle-pbkdf2 | cli | globales Executable | |
pkcs1-conv | cli | globales Executable | |
sexp-conv | cli | globales Executable |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.
Seite generiert2026-07-10
Manager-Version4.0
Manager aktualisiert2026-05-11
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamnot checked
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
- InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/none Konfidenz
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:nettle |
|---|---|
| Version | 4.0 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/nettle |
| Homepage | https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/ |
| Repository | https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/nettle.html |
| Lizenz | GPL-2.0-or-later OR LGPL-3.0-or-later |
| Quellarchiv | https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-4.0.tar.gz |
| Zuletzt aktualisiert | 2026-05-11T18:07:37Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Abhängigkeiten | gmp |
| Bottle | verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Registry-Fakten
Details aus der Quelldatenbank
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | nettle |
| Aliases |
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| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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Source-Datenbank-Treffer
Andere Paketmanager-Einträge
Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.
Debian apt95%
libhogweed6t64 3.10.1-1
low level cryptographic library (public-key cryptos)
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
sudo apt install libhogweed6t64- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: nettle
- 3 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Nettle
Debian apt95%
libnettle8t64 3.10.1-1
low level cryptographic library (symmetric and one-way cryptos)
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
sudo apt install libnettle8t64- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: nettle
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Nettle
Debian apt95%
nettle-bin 3.10.1-1
low level cryptographic library (binary tools)
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
sudo apt install nettle-bin- Section: misc
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: nettle
- 4 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 optionale Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Nettle
Debian apt95%
nettle-dev 3.10.1-1
low level cryptographic library (development files)
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
sudo apt install nettle-dev- Section: libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: nettle
- 3 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Nettle
Nix95%
nettle
nix profile install nixpkgs#nettle- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Nettle
Ubuntu apt95%
libhogweed6t64 3.9.1-2.2build1
low level cryptographic library (public-key cryptos)
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
sudo apt install libhogweed6t64- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: nettle
- 3 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Nettle
Ubuntu apt95%
libnettle8t64 3.9.1-2.2build1
low level cryptographic library (symmetric and one-way cryptos)
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
sudo apt install libnettle8t64- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: nettle
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Nettle
Ubuntu apt95%
nettle-bin 3.9.1-2.2build1
low level cryptographic library (binary tools)
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
sudo apt install nettle-bin- Section: universe/misc
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: nettle
- 4 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 optionale Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Nettle
Ubuntu apt95%
nettle-dev 3.9.1-2.2build1
low level cryptographic library (development files)
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
sudo apt install nettle-dev- Section: libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: nettle
- 3 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Nettle
apk95%
nettle 3.10.2-r0
Low-level cryptographic library
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
sudo apk add nettle- License: GPL-2.0-or-later OR LGPL-3.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: nettle
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Nettle
apk95%
nettle-dev 3.10.2-r0
Low-level cryptographic library (development files)
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
sudo apk add nettle-dev- License: GPL-2.0-or-later OR LGPL-3.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: nettle
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Nettle
apk95%
nettle-static 3.10.2-r0
Low-level cryptographic library (static library)
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
sudo apk add nettle-static- License: GPL-2.0-or-later OR LGPL-3.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: nettle
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Nettle
apk95%
nettle-utils 3.10.2-r0
Utils for nettle
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
sudo apk add nettle-utils- License: GPL-2.0-or-later OR LGPL-3.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: nettle
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Nettle
dnf95%
nettle 3.10.1-3.fc44
A low-level cryptographic library
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
sudo dnf install nettle- License: LGPL-3.0-or-later OR GPL-2.0-or-later
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: i686
- Source Package: nettle
- 3 Abhängigkeiten
- 3 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Nettle
dnf95%
nettle-devel 3.10.1-3.fc44
Development headers for a low-level cryptographic library
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
sudo dnf install nettle-devel- License: LGPL-3.0-or-later OR GPL-2.0-or-later
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: i686
- Source Package: nettle
- 6 Abhängigkeiten
- 2 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Nettle
pacman95%
nettle 4.0-1
A low-level cryptographic library
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle
sudo pacman -S nettle- License: LGPL-3.0-or-later OR GPL-2.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- 2 Abhängigkeiten
- 2 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Nettle
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Aus Repository-Daten generiert
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- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
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