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authorJeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>2018-01-22 18:34:20 -0500
committerJeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>2018-01-22 18:34:20 -0500
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@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Other features include:
* benchmarks and validation testing
* x86, x64 (x86-64), x32 (ILP32), ARM-32, Aarch32, Aarch64 and Power8 in-core code
for the commonly used algorithms
- + run-time CPU feature detection and code selection</li>
+ + run-time CPU feature detection and code selection
+ supports GCC-style and MSVC-style inline assembly, and MASM for x64
+ x86, x64 (x86-64), x32 provides MMX, SSE2, and SSE4 implementations
+ ARM-32, Aarch32 and Aarch64 provides NEON, ASIMD and ARMv8 implementations
@@ -641,4 +641,19 @@ documentation is one of the highest returns on investment.
* added Windows test scripts using Strawberry Perl
- ported to MSVC 2015 SP3, Xcode 7.3, Sun Studio 12.5, GCC 7.0, MacPorts GCC 7.0, Clang 3.8, Intel C++ 17.00
+6.0.0 - Major release, recompile of programs required
+ - expanded community input and support
+ * 43 unique contributors as of this release
+ - fixed CVE-2016-9939 (Issue 346, transient DoS)
+ - fixed CVE-2017-9434 (Issue 414, misidentified memory error)
+ - converted to BASE+SIMD implementation
+ * BASE provides an architecture neutral C++ implementation
+ * SIMD provides architecture specific hardware acceleration
+ - improved PowerPC Power4, Power7 and Power8 support
+ - added ARIA, EC German DSA, Deterministic signatures (RFC 6979), Kalyna, NIST Hash and HMAC DRBG, Padlock RNG, Poly1305, SipHash, Simon, Speck, SM3, SM4, Threefish algorithms
+ - added NaCl interface from the compact library
+ * x25519 key exhange and ed25519 signing provided through NaCl interface
+ - improved Testing and QA
+ - ported to MSVC 2017, Xcode 8.1, Sun Studio 12.5, GCC 7.0, MacPorts GCC 7.0, Clang 4.0, Intel C++ 17.00, IBM XL C/C++ 13.1
+
Written by Wei Dai and the Crypto++ Project