From 0eae25f0cb30509f294564ce25409f12591ebf73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Niels=20M=C3=B6ller?= Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 21:55:17 +0200 Subject: Clarify experimental status of sha3 and chacha-poly1305 in NEWS. --- NEWS | 22 ++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 32e67ce1..856a8519 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -96,20 +96,20 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.0 release New features: - * Support for poly1305-aes MAC. + * Support for Poly1305-AES MAC. - * Experimental support for the Chacha stream cipher and the - chacha-poly1305 AEAD mode. Specifications are still in - flux, and future releases may do incompatible changes to - track standardization. Currently uses 256-bit key and 64-bit - nonce. + * Support for the ChaCha stream cipher and EXPERIMENTAL + support for the ChaCha-Poly1305 AEAD mode. Specifications + are still in flux, and future releases may do incompatible + changes to track standardization. Currently uses 256-bit key + and 64-bit nonce. * Support for EAX mode. * Support for CCM mode. Contributed by Owen Kirby. - * Support for additional variants of SHA512 with output size - of 224 and 256 bits. Contributed by Joachim Strömbergson. + * Additional variants of SHA512 with output size of 224 and + 256 bits. Contributed by Joachim Strömbergson. * New interface, struct nettle_aead, for mechanisms providing authenticated encryption with associated data (AEAD). @@ -124,6 +124,12 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.0 release Miscellaneous: + * SHA3 is now documented as EXPERIMENTAL. Nettle currently + implements SHA3 as specified at the time Keccak won the SHA3 + competition. However, the final standard specified by NIST + is likely to be incompatible, in which case future releases + may do incompatible changes to track standardization. + * The portability fix for the rotation macros, mentioned in NEWS for 2.7.1, actually didn't make it into that release. It is included now. -- cgit v1.2.1