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 # lpass
+A simple implementation of
+[lesspass](https://github.com/lesspass/lesspass) in C.
 
-A simple implementation of [lesspass](https://github.com/lesspass/lesspass) in C.
+# Memory safety disclaimers
+This implementation only uses dynamic memory allocation as implemented
+within OpenSSL to handle big integers (`BIGNUM` in OpenSSL lingo). All
+allocations should be checked for success (non-`NULL`), please send a
+patch if you find that this is not the case. The same is true for the
+status of OpenSSL functions that return a status code.
+
+String manipulation is done only on statically-allocated strings,
+while also using the versions whose limits can be specified (e.g.,
+`snprintf` versus `sprintf` and `strncpy` versus `strcpy`).
+
+This code uses variable-length array declarations for simplicity.
+
+# Dependencies
+A recent version of OpenSSL.