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authorNiels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se>2016-01-23 20:44:11 +0100
committerNiels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se>2016-01-23 20:44:11 +0100
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<h1> Nettle release plans </h1>
<p> This is an attempt at defining a development target for
Nettle-3.2, inspired by similar pages for recent GMP releases.
- [Last updated 2015-09-02]</p>
+ [Last updated 2016-01-23]</p>
<p class='should'>
This really ought to be done before release
</p>
@@ -31,32 +31,32 @@
<h1> Plans for nettle-3.2 </h1>
<h2> New features </h2>
- <p class='should'>
+ <p class='done'>
"CRT-hardened" RSA secret key operations. Check that the result of
rsa_compute_root is correct. Should be easy for the
rsa_pkcs1_sign_tr and rsa_decrypt_tr functions, other RSA
functions would need interface changes.
</p>
- <p class='wish'>
+ <p class='postponed'>
Add larger "safe" curves, e.g., M-383, curve41417 and E-521.
</p>
- <p class='wish'>
+ <p class='postponed'>
Add functions for converting ECC points to and from ANSI x9.62.
</p>
- <p class='wish'>
+ <p class='postponed'>
Use side-channel silent GMP functions for RSA and DSA. May require
additional interface changes, to use mpn functions.
</p>
- <p class='should'>
+ <p class='postponed'>
Side-channel silent mem_equalp.
</p>
<h2> Optimizations </h2>
- <p class='wish'>
+ <p class='postponed'>
Assembly optimizations for ARMv8 (64-bit).
</p>
- <p class='wish'>
+ <p class='postponed'>
Further optimizations of curve25519 and EdDSA, in particular,
radix 51 modp operations,
and <a href='http://www.hyperelliptic.org/EFD/g1p/auto-twisted-extended-1.html#addition-add-2008-hwcd-3'>more
@@ -64,16 +64,19 @@
</p>
<h2> Miscellaneous </h2>
- <p class='wish'>
+ <p class='postponed'>
Use more functions from GMP-6 and later, when available:
mpn_sec_add_1, mpn_sec_tabselect, mpn_sec_invert, mpn_cnd_swap,
...
</p>
<h2> Documentation </h2>
- <p class='should'>
+ <p class='done'>
Update SHA3 documentation.
</p>
+ <p class='done'>
+ Update and extend RSA documentation.
+ </p>
<h2> Build system </h2>
<p class='postponed'>
@@ -84,17 +87,22 @@
<p> Since xenofarm isn't up and running, do some manual testing:
</p>
<ul>
- <li class='should'> x86_64-linux-gnu</li>
- <li class='should'> x86-linux-gnu</li>
- <li class='should'> x86_64-freebsd</li>
- <li class='should'> x86-w*ndows (using cross compiler and wine)</li>
- <li class='should'> x86_64-w*ndows (using cross compiler and wine)</li>
+ <li class='done'> x86_64-linux-gnu</li>
+ <li class='done'> x86-linux-gnu</li>
+ <li class='done'> x86_64-freebsd</li>
+ <li class='done'> x86-w*ndows (using cross compiler and wine)</li>
+ <li class='done'> x86_64-w*ndows (using cross compiler and wine)</li>
<li class='should'> x86-darwin (needs help from Nettle users)</li>
<li class='should'> x86_64-darwin (needs help from Nettle users)</li>
- <li class='should'> armv7-linux-gnu (pandaboard test platform)</li>
+ <li class='done'> armv5-linux-gnu (qemu)</li>
+ <li class='done'> armv7-linux-gnu (qemu)</li>
+ <li class='done'> armv8-linux-gnu (qemu)</li>
+ <li class='done'> ppc64-linux-gnu (qemu)</li>
+ <li class='done'> ppc32-linux-gnu (qemu)</li>
+ <li class='should'> mips64-linux-gnu (qemu)</li>
+ <li class='should'> mips32-linux-gnu (qemu)</li>
+ <li class='should'> m68k-linux-gnu (aranym)</li>
<li class='wish'> armv7-android </li>
- <li class='wish'> sparc32-solaris10</li>
- <li class='wish'> sparc64-solaris10</li>
</ul>
<h1> Changes under consideration for later releases </h1>