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 # AWS libcrypto (AWS-LC)
 
-AWS-LC is a general-purpose cryptographic library maintained by the AWS Cryptography
+Greetings, AWS-LC is a general-purpose cryptographic library maintained by the AWS Cryptography
 team for AWS and their customers. It іs based on code from the Google BoringSSL project
 and the OpenSSL project.