# AWS libcrypto (AWS-LC) Public Preview

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AWS libcrypto (AWS-LC) is a general-purpose cryptographic library maintained by
the AWS Cryptography team for use with AWS Nitro Enclaves and other AWS applications. 
AWS-LC іs based on code from the Google BoringSSL project and the OpenSSL project.

## Why AWS-LC?

AWS-LCs goal is to maintain a secure libcrypto that is compatible with software and
applications used at AWS. AWS-LC also serves as the new home for the AWS Cryptography 
team to publish open source contributions and enhancements that are submitted to 
other libcrypto projects. 

## Have a Question?
If you have any questions about Submitting PR's, Opening Issues, AWS-LC API
usage or any similar topic, we have a public chatroom available here to answer
your questions: https://gitter.im/awslabs/aws-lc

Otherwise, if you think you might have found a security impacting issue, please
instead follow [our Security Notification Process.](#security-issue-notifications)

## Security issue notifications
If you discover a potential security issue in AWS-LC we ask that you notify AWS
Security via our [vulnerability reporting
page](http://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/). Please do
**not** create a public github issue.