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author | Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se> | 2019-05-11 21:29:52 +0200 |
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committer | Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se> | 2019-05-11 21:29:52 +0200 |
commit | a1f6f7c992a8380cf08a539015fcb74e6ae27466 (patch) | |
tree | c3ecf8b64ad3e3cb3794e70f2db0c534c6657b7d /NEWS | |
parent | d4847b52087253446ccf9a15d3e6e40e77c5950f (diff) | |
download | nettle-a1f6f7c992a8380cf08a539015fcb74e6ae27466.tar.gz |
NEWS update for Nettle-3.5.
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@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.5 release * Support for CMAC (RFC 4493), contributed by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos. + * Support for XTS mode, contributed by Simo Sorce. + Optimizations: * Improved performance of the x86_64 AES implementation using @@ -50,6 +52,16 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.5 release operation, benchmarked on x86_64. Table sizes unchanged, around 16 KB per curve. + * In ARM fat builds, automatically select Neon implementation + of Chacha, where possible. Contributed by Yuriy M. + Kaminskiy. + + Deprecations: + + * Functions using the old struct aes_context have been marked + as deprecated. Use the fixed key size interface instead, + e.g., struct aes256_ctx, introduced in Nettle-3.0. + Miscellaneous: * Support for big-endian ARM systems, contributed by Michael @@ -59,6 +71,17 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.5 release gcmdata are no longer built by default. Makefile improvements contributed by Jay Foad. + * The header file nettle-stdint.h, and corresponding autoconf + tests, have been deleted. Nettle now requires that the + compiler/libc provides <stdint.h>. + + * The "example" program examples/eratosthenes.c has been + deleted. + + * The contents of hash context structs, and the deprecated + aes_ctx struct, have been reorganized, to enable later + optimizations. + NEWS for the Nettle 3.4.1 release This release fixes a few bugs, and makes the RSA private key |