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author | Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se> | 2016-01-20 19:21:12 +0100 |
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committer | Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se> | 2016-01-20 19:21:12 +0100 |
commit | ce18cf99082ec405631c11deea468914345b50b0 (patch) | |
tree | 302b6d9d3fb9cf51a884b23ce6c3ea877a25a5ac | |
parent | 0dff113a9be46d5166681386a9094ecfa9b391ac (diff) | |
download | nettle-ce18cf99082ec405631c11deea468914345b50b0.tar.gz |
Updated NEWS for nettle-3.2.
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@@ -3,11 +3,23 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.2 release Bug fixes: * The SHA3 implementation is updated according to the FIPS 202 - standard. It is not interoperable with earlier versions of - Nettle. Thanks to Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos. + standard. It is not interoperable with earlier versions of + Nettle. Thanks to Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos. To easily + differentiate at compile time, sha3.h defines the constant + NETTLE_SHA3_FIPS202. + + * Fix corner-case carry propagation bugs affecting elliptic + curve operations on the curves secp_256r1 and secp_384r1 on + certain platforms, including x86_64. Reported by Hanno Böck. New features: + * New functions for RSA private key operations, identified by + the "_tr" suffix, with better resistance to side channel + attacks and to hardware or software failures which could + break the CRT optimization. See the Nettle manual for + details. Initial patch by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos. + * New functions nettle_version_major, nettle_version_minor, as a run-time variant of the compile-time constants NETTLE_VERSION_MAJOR and NETTLE_VERSION_MINOR. @@ -25,7 +37,12 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.2 release assembler. Thanks to Jukka Ukkonen. * Disabled use of ifunc relocations for fat builds, to fix - problems most triggered by using dlopen with RTLD_NOW. + problems most easily triggered by using dlopen RTLD_NOW. + + The shared library names are libnettle.so.6.2 and + libhogweed.so.4.2, with sonames still libnettle.so.6 and + libhogweed.so.4. It is intended to be fully binary compatible + with nettle-3.1. NEWS for the Nettle 3.1.1 release |