macOS
Homebrewvérifié · 100%
brew install nettlelocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsvérifié · 94%
sudo port install nettleMacPorts ports tree · devel/nettle/Portfile · Source: api.github.com
brew
Installer nettle avec Homebrew, apk, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, apt
Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de nettle pour les workflows d'agents IA.
installation
Commandes d'installation supplémentaires
Linux
Alpine Linux apkvérifié · 92%
sudo apk add nettleAlpine Linux edge package indexes · nettle · Source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Fedora dnfvérifié · 92%
sudo dnf install nettleFedora Rawhide package metadata · nettle · Source: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixvérifié · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#nettlenixpkgs package indexes · nettle · Source: raw.githubusercontent.com
Arch Linux pacmanvérifié · 92%
sudo pacman -S nettleArch Linux sync databases · nettle · Source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
openSUSE zyppervérifié · 92%
sudo zypper install nettleopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · nettle · Source: download.opensuse.org
Debian aptvérifié · 92%
sudo apt install libhogweed6t64Debian stable package indexes · libhogweed6t64 · Source: deb.debian.org
aperçu
Résumé du paquet
Low-level cryptographic library
Liens du projet
Commandes et alias
- nettle-hash
- nettle-lfib-stream
- nettle-pbkdf2
- pkcs1-conv
- sexp-conv
historique
Historique du projet et usages
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.
Historique du projet
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.
Historique d'adoption
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.
Modes d'utilisation
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.
Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent
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.
Chronologie
- 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.
Sources
- 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
posture de sécurité
Aucune couverture d'outil protégé trouvée pour le moment
Aucun manifest local de gestion des secrets correspondant n'a été trouvé pour nettle. Les métadonnées de paquet Nucleus restent publiées ici afin que la couverture future dispose d'une URL stable.
Comportement d'installation
- Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
- Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 6 plateformes.
- S’installe avec 1 dépendances d’exécution.
Revue recommandée
Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.
exécutables
Exécutables installés
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
nettle-hash | cli | exécutable global | |
nettle-lfib-stream | cli | exécutable global | |
nettle-pbkdf2 | cli | exécutable global | |
pkcs1-conv | cli | exécutable global | |
sexp-conv | cli | exécutable global |
fraîcheur
Version et fraîcheur
Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.
page générée2026-07-10
version du gestionnaire4.0
gestionnaire mis à jour2026-05-11
données localesOK
amontnot checked
dernière version détectéenon détecté
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/confiance none
métadonnées d'installation
Métadonnées du paquet
| Clé du paquet | brew:nettle |
|---|---|
| Version | 4.0 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page du gestionnaire de paquets | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/nettle |
| Page d'accueil | https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/ |
| Dépôt | https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle |
| Docs amont | https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/nettle.html |
| Licence | GPL-2.0-or-later OR LGPL-3.0-or-later |
| Archive source | https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-4.0.tar.gz |
| Dernière mise à jour | 2026-05-11T18:07:37Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dépendances | gmp |
| Bouteille | disponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| post-install Homebrew | non défini |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
faits du registre
Détails de la base source
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | nettle |
| Aliases |
|
| 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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correspondances dans les bases sources
Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets
Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.
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 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- 1 dépendances optionnelles
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Nettle
Nix95%
nettle
nix profile install nixpkgs#nettle- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- 1 dépendances optionnelles
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- 3 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- 2 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- 2 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Nettle
piste source
Généré depuis les données du dépôt
Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Sources utilisées
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment