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| author | Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se> | 2012-04-30 09:05:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se> | 2012-04-30 09:05:00 +0200 |
| commit | fa4331ac60bc7b7c28ed37626c844ed829b29ada (patch) | |
| tree | 1082f1744a321e63f951ddca9a03153da16fedc9 /misc/plan.html | |
| parent | 988f28861cea422ab0e14d89653e4bb94daa23bd (diff) | |
| download | nettle-fa4331ac60bc7b7c28ed37626c844ed829b29ada.tar.gz | |
Updated release plan.
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diff --git a/misc/plan.html b/misc/plan.html index 67be6c98..1b116c43 100644 --- a/misc/plan.html +++ b/misc/plan.html @@ -8,14 +8,13 @@ type="text/css" href="todo.css" media="all"/> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> -<title>TODO for coming nettle-2.2 releases</title> +<title>TODO for coming releases</title> </head> <body> - <h1> Release plans </h1> + <h1> Nettle release plans </h1> <p> This is an attempt at defining a development target for - Nettle-2.5, inspired by similar pages for recent GMP releases. - [Last updated 2012-04-29]</p> - <h2> Color codes </h2> + Nettle-2.5, inspired by similar pages for recent GMP releases. [Last + updated 2012-04-30]</p> <p class='should'> This really ought to be done before release </p> @@ -32,7 +31,8 @@ <h1> Plan for the Nettle-2.5 release </h1> <h2> RSA blinding </h2> <p class='wish'> - Add tentative interface, as suggested by Nikos. + Add tentative interface, as suggested by Nikos. Don't try yet to + get blinding variants of <em>all</em> signature functions. </p> <h2> Documentation </h2> <p class='should'> @@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ <p class='done'> Various w64 fixes, mostly by Martin Storsjö. </p> + <p class='wish'> + Workaround for uint8_fast_t gnutls/gnulib incompatibilty on SunOS 5.8. + </p> + <h2> Testing </h2> <p> Since xenofarm isn't up and running, do some manual testing: </p> @@ -69,23 +73,23 @@ </p> <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. + buffering. E.g., when using them for HMAC keyed "inner" and + "outer" states, we now get three buffers but we only need one. </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'> + <p class='wish'> 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 + without blinding, and DSA according to spec and some deterministic + variant (like 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> |