This is the Debian GNU/Linux packaged version of mcrypt. The developer of this software is Nikos Mavroyanopoulos . It was put together by Raphael Bossek . Current maintainer is RISKO Gergely Upstream webpage: http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net/ /* mcrypt 2.5 - encrypts text or binary files using symmetric algorithms. * For a brief description of the algorithms read the man page. * * Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2007 Nikos Mavroyanopoulos * * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program. If not, see . */ On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.