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| author | Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se> | 2015-09-02 22:39:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se> | 2015-09-02 22:39:31 +0200 |
| commit | c2d7bf3a6e92d9960e4eb1ca4d5f0a65ef93660c (patch) | |
| tree | 0eb561de2c50bbb00343dde40e51ad21d92193a1 | |
| parent | 7123800ac0f9c0707bbfc8617288aa2cb3c452e5 (diff) | |
| download | nettle-c2d7bf3a6e92d9960e4eb1ca4d5f0a65ef93660c.tar.gz | |
Updated release plan.
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diff --git a/misc/plan.html b/misc/plan.html index a86b5bb7..b04210f0 100644 --- a/misc/plan.html +++ b/misc/plan.html @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ <body> <h1> Nettle release plans </h1> <p> This is an attempt at defining a development target for - Nettle-3.1, inspired by similar pages for recent GMP releases. - [Last updated 2015-03-31]</p> + Nettle-3.2, inspired by similar pages for recent GMP releases. + [Last updated 2015-09-02]</p> <p class='should'> This really ought to be done before release </p> @@ -28,29 +28,14 @@ Leave for some later release! </p> - <h1> Plans for nettle-3.1 </h1> + <h1> Plans for nettle-3.2 </h1> - <h2> Interface changes </h2> - <p class='done'> - Review public functions in ecc.h, move some to ecc-internal.h, to - enable sane support for other types of curves. - </p> - <h2> New features </h2> - <p class='done'> - Add support for curve25519.<span class='should'> What about the - "x25519" name?</span> - </p> - <p class='done'> - Update chacha-poly1305 to - the <a href='https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-cfrg-chacha20-poly1305-08'>current - draft</a>. - </p> - <p class='done'> - Add support for Ed25519 signatures. - </p> - <p class='done'> - Interface tweaks. EdDSA, Curve25519, base64. + <p class='should'> + "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'> Add larger "safe" curves, e.g., M-383, curve41417 and E-521. @@ -62,19 +47,13 @@ Use side-channel silent GMP functions for RSA and DSA. May require additional interface changes, to use mpn functions. </p> - <p class='done'> - Make it possible to build nettle and hogweed using mini-gmp. - </p> - <p class='postpone'> + <p class='should'> Side-channel silent mem_equalp. </p> <h2> Optimizations </h2> - <p class='done'> - Support for using AES acceleration. - </p> - <p class='postponed'> + <p class='wish'> Assembly optimizations for ARMv8 (64-bit). </p> <p class='wish'> @@ -85,35 +64,18 @@ </p> <h2> Miscellaneous </h2> - <p class='postpone'> + <p class='wish'> 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='done'> - Document curve25519. - </p> - <p class='done'> - Document EdDSA. + <p class='should'> + Update SHA3 documentation. </p> <h2> Build system </h2> - <p class='done'> - Support for fat binaries on ARM and x86_64, selecting code at - runtime depending on cpu capabilities. - </p> - <p class='done'> - Fix the handling of optional C source files with make dist. - </p> - <p class='done'> - Stop using the nonstandard <tt>.po</tt> extension. - </p> - <p class='done'> - Reconsider assembly make rules, going back to an .asm.o: rule - might work better with Solaris' make. - </p> <p class='postponed'> Update AX_CREATE_STDINT_H to the latest version. </p> @@ -122,17 +84,17 @@ <p> Since xenofarm isn't up and running, do some manual testing: </p> <ul> - <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_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='should'> x86-darwin (needs help from Nettle users)</li> <li class='should'> x86_64-darwin (needs help from Nettle users)</li> - <li class='done'> armv7-linux-gnu (pandaboard test platform)</li> + <li class='should'> armv7-linux-gnu (pandaboard test platform)</li> <li class='wish'> armv7-android </li> - <li class='done'> sparc32-solaris10</li> - <li class='done'> sparc64-solaris10</li> + <li class='wish'> sparc32-solaris10</li> + <li class='wish'> sparc64-solaris10</li> </ul> <h1> Changes under consideration for later releases </h1> |