Crypto API
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Typing "Crypto API" is ambiguous because "crypto" is short for cryptography. So Windows has an API for crypto, and Linux has an API for crypto. Programmers use CryptoAPI frequently, and it redirects here.
Microsoft uses also uses CAPI for Crypto API, but Linux uses CAPI for ISDN functionality.
Crypto API may refer to:
- Crypto API (Linux)Cryptographic Application Programming Interface, a Linux kernel API for the cryptography framework.
- Cryptographic Application Programming Interface, a Windows API for the cryptography services.