# [ANN] `botan-bindings` & `botan-low` `0.0.1.0` released

Today, I am happy to announce the initial release of the botan-bindings and botan-low packages to hackage. This is the result of more than 7 months of sustained effort to provide a series of bindings to the Botan C++ cryptography library, and was made possible through support from the Haskell Foundation and funding provided by Mercury. Botan is an open-source, BSD-licensed C++ cryptography library with an extensive suite of cryptographic algorithms and utilities...