What is "botan"

Botan may refer to:

• The Japanese name for the Peony
• Botan (YuYu Hakusho), a fictional character in the anime and manga series YuYu Hakusho
• Botan Rice Candy, a brand of traditional rice-based Japanese candy
• Botan (programming library), a BSD-licensed crypto library written in C++
• Botan River, a tributary of the Tigris River in southeastern Turkey
• Botan or Bohtan, a medieval Kurdish principality
• The name of Kyou Fujibayashi's pet piglet in Clannad
• Botan Rojhilat, a Kurdish member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
• The penname of Suweeriya Sirisingh

Botan is a BSD-licensed cryptographic library written in C++. It provides a wide variety of cryptographic algorithms, formats, and protocols, e.g. SSL and TLS. It is used in the Monotone distributed revision control program.

The project was originally called OpenCL, a name now used by Apple Inc. and Khronos Group for a heterogeneous system programming framework. It was renamed Botan in 2002.

In 2007, the German Federal Office for Information Security contracted FlexSecure GmbH to add an implementation of Card Verifiable Certificates for ePassports to Botan; the modified version of Botan was released under the name InSiTo.