# Botan

# Known Users

This is a list of some of the known users of botan. If you’d like to be added to the list, email the development list.

## Open Source Software

- SoftHSM an open sourced software PKCS #11 implementation, which is used as part of the OpenDNSSEC project.
- Qt Creator, an IDE for building Qt applications.
- NetSieben’s SSH library provides SSHv2 client connections for C++ applications, using botan for the crypto. (GPL or commercial)
- InSiTo is a library for ePassports based on botan which was commissioned by the German Federal Office for Information Security.
- QCA, the Qt Cryptographic Architecture (part of KDE4) uses parts of botan as an embedded crypto provider.
- TCHead is a utility for analyzing TrueCrypt volume headers.
- Octopod is a file sharing system.
- Silverlock is a GPL password management tool for Windows, OS X, and Linux.</p>
- Monotone, a free distributed version control system, uses botan for RSA authentication, content hashing, and message authentication.
- Publimark is a tool for hiding messages in an audio file.
- KeySafe, a password application for GNOME
- SuSE uses botan as part of a test suite for the GCC optimizer.
- Openbench, an open source benchmark suite, uses botan as a component.
- VNCcrack is a password cracker for the VNC authentication/response protocol.

## Commercial Software

- Hulu Desktop uses botan on Windows (ref).
- Hitman Pro is a malware scanner for Windows.
- Flying Lab Software, a Seattle based game developer, uses botan as a part of their user authentication process.
- CryptoTE is a text editor with integrated strong cryptography.
- TextEgg is an encrypted document editor.
- Seagate uses botan for the drive encryption in the Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition hard drive.
- Aegeus Technology Ltd used botan in a research implementation of SPKI.
- E.V.E. Paradox, a suite of games for Windows.

## Research Projects

- A Unified Approach to Intra-Domain Security describes a system by researches from Oak Ridge National Lab and Indiana University that uses botan to secure ARP and DHCP.
- CLL: A Cryptographic Link Layer for Local Area Networks describes a network encryption system using botan. (One of the coauthors, Yves Jerschow, also contributed a number of optimizations to the library).
- The system described in Enabling Intrusion Detection in IPsec Protected IPv6 Networks Through Secret-key Sharing
- An experimental tamper detection system designed by researchers from the University of Delaware and the US Army Research Laboratory.
- A prototype implementation of a telephony signal security system, described in Prototyping and evaluation of TCAPsec by Kang Chung and Mathilda Gustafsson.