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| author | Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se> | 2012-04-29 08:26:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se> | 2012-04-29 08:26:08 +0200 |
| commit | 988f28861cea422ab0e14d89653e4bb94daa23bd (patch) | |
| tree | 01221056a4592437a15b3900b5f074066c2757b7 | |
| parent | 77b0bf6a0660aa8e7291b612596edd7ce46f10ae (diff) | |
| download | nettle-988f28861cea422ab0e14d89653e4bb94daa23bd.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/misc/plan.html b/misc/plan.html index 217e0aa5..67be6c98 100644 --- a/misc/plan.html +++ b/misc/plan.html @@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ type="text/css" href="todo.css" media="all"/> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> -<title>TODO for the nettle-2.2 release</title> +<title>TODO for coming nettle-2.2 releases</title> </head> <body> - <h1> Plans for the Nettle-2.2 release </h1> + <h1> Release plans </h1> <p> This is an attempt at defining a development target for - Nettle-2.2, inspired by similar pages for recent GMP releases. - [Last updated 2011-07-01]</p> + Nettle-2.5, inspired by similar pages for recent GMP releases. + [Last updated 2012-04-29]</p> <h2> Color codes </h2> <p class='should'> This really ought to be done before release @@ -28,42 +28,65 @@ <p class='postponed'> Leave for some later release! </p> - <h2> License change </h2> - <p class='done'> - Replace remaining GPLd code: serpent and blowfish. - </p> - <p class='done'> - Decide which flavor of LGPL to use: LGPLv2+, LGPLv3+, or dual - license LGPLv3+ and GPLv2. Leaning towards the simplest option, LGPLv2+. + + <h1> Plan for the Nettle-2.5 release </h1> + <h2> RSA blinding </h2> + <p class='wish'> + Add tentative interface, as suggested by Nikos. </p> - <h2> Documentation </h2> - <p class='done'> - Update documentation regarding license change and serpent - copyrights. + <p class='should'> + Update documentation with info on Salsa20. </p> - <p class='done'> + <p class='should'> Update NEWS file. </p> <h2> Bug fixes </h2> <p class='done'> - Fix the libdir defaults for linux x86_64 (I think the following - should work in most cases for for both debian and fhs conventions: - When building for $ABI (32 or 64), check if /usr/lib$ABI exists. - If so, install there, otherwise in $prefix/lib. Possibly bail out - with an error if neither /usr/lib32 nor /usr/lib64 exists). + Various w64 fixes, mostly by Martin Storsjö. </p> - <h2> Miscellaneous </h2> - <p class='postponed'> - Convert all files to utf-8. + <h2> Testing </h2> + <p> Since xenofarm isn't up and running, do some manual testing: </p> - <p class='postponed'> + <ul> + <li class='should'> x86_64-gnu-linux</li> + <li class='should'> x86_64-freebsd</li> + <li class='should'> x86-gnu-linux</li> + <li class='should'> x86-freebsd</li> + <li class='should'> x86-w*ndows (using cross compiler and wine)</li> + <li class='wish'> x86_64-w*ndows (seems a bit harder to get + mingw64 and wine64 working)</li> + <li class='should'> sparc32-solaris10</li> + <li class='should'> sparc64-solaris10</li> + </ul> + + <h1> Plans for nettle-3.0 </h1> + + <h2> Interface changes </h2> + <p class='should'> Change the type of all lengths from <tt>unsigned</tt> to <tt>size_t</tt>. An ABI change on most 64-bit platforms. </p> - <p class='postponed'> - Migrate repository from <tt>cvs</tt> to <tt>git</tt> (or - possibly <tt>hg</tt>). + <p class='should'> + For Merkle-Damgaard hash functions, separate the state and the + buffering. E.g., when using then for HMAC keyed "inner" and + "outer" states. + </p> + <p class='should'> + Use the nettle_cipher abstraction only for block ciphers (in + particular, exclude arcfour). Use a const for the ctx argument to + nettle_crypt_func. + </p> + <p class='should'> + Consider making a public interface similar to nettle_aead? With + the above change, it can't use nettle_crypt_func. + </p> + <p class='should'> + Reorganize private key operations. Need to support RSA with and + without blinding, and DSA occording to spec and some deterministic + variant (putty), and possibly also smartcard versions where the + private key is not available to the library. And without an + explosion of the number of functions. </p> </body> </html> |