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NEWS for the 2.7.1 release This is a bugfix release. Bug fixes: * Fixed a bug in the new ECC code. The ecc_j_to_a function called GMP:s mpn_mul_n (via ecc_modp_mul) with overlapping input and output arguments, which is not supported. * The assembly files for SHA1, SHA256 and AES depend on ARMv6 instructions, breaking nettle-2.7 for pre-v6 ARM processors. The configure script now enables those assembly files only when building for ARMv6 or later. * Use a more portable C expression for rotations. The previous version used the following "standard" expression for 32-bit rotation: (x << n) | (x >> (32 - n)) But this gives undefined behavior (according to the C specification) for n = 0. The rotate expression is replaced by the more portable: (x << n) | (x >> ((-n)&31)) This change affects only CAST128, which uses non-constant rotation counts. Unfortunately, the new expression is poorly optimized by released versions of gcc, making CAST128 a bit slower. This is being fixed by the gcc hackers, see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57157. The following problems have been reported, but are *not* fixed in this release: * ARM assembly files use instruction syntax which is not supported by all assemblers. Workaround: Use a current version of GNU as, or configure with --disable-assembler. * Configuring with --disable-static doesn't work on windows. The libraries are intended to be binary compatible with nettle-2.2 and later. The shared library names are libnettle.so.4.7 and libhogweed.so.2.5, with sonames still libnettle.so.4 and libhogweed.so.2. NEWS for the 2.7 release This release includes an implementation of elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and optimizations for the ARM architecture. This work was done at the offices of South Pole AB, and generously funded by the .SE Internet Fund. Bug fixes: * Fixed a bug in the buffer handling for incremental SHA3 hashing, with a possible buffer overflow. Patch by Edgar E. Iglesias. New features: * Support for ECDSA signatures. Elliptic curve operations over the following curves: secp192r1, secp224r1, secp256r1, secp384r1 and secp521r1, including x86_64 and ARM assembly for the most important primitives. * Support for UMAC, including x86_64 and ARM assembly. * Support for 12-round salsa20, "salsa20r12", as specified by eSTREAM. Contributed by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos. Optimizations: * ARM assembly code for several additional algorithms, including AES, Salsa20, and the SHA family of hash functions. * x86_64 assembly for SHA256, SHA512, and SHA3. (SHA3 assembly was included in the 2.6 release, but disabled due to poor performance on some AMD processors. Hopefully, that performance problem is fixed now). The ARM code was tested and benchmarked on Cortex-A9. Some of the functions use "neon" instructions. The configure script decides if neon instructions can be used, and the command line options --enable-arm-neon and --disable-arm-neon can be used to override its choice. Feedback appreciated. The libraries are intended to be binary compatible with nettle-2.2 and later. The shared library names are libnettle.so.4.6 and libhogweed.so.2.4, with sonames still libnettle.so.4 and libhogweed.so.2. NEWS for the 2.6 release Bug fixes: * Fixed a bug in ctr_crypt. For zero length (which should be a NOP), it sometimes incremented the counter. Reported by Tim Kosse. * Fixed a small memory leak in nettle_realloc and nettle_xrealloc. New features: * Support for PKCS #5 PBKDF2, to generate a key from a password or passphrase. Contributed by Simon Josefsson. Specification in RFC 2898 and test vectors in RFC 6070. * Support for SHA3. * Support for the GOST R 34.11-94 hash algorithm. Ported from librhash by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos. Written by Aleksey Kravchenko. More information in RFC4357. Test vectors taken from the GOST hash wikipedia page. Miscellaneous: * The include file <nettle/sha.h> has been split into <nettle/sha1.h> and <nettle/sha2.h>. For now, sha.h is kept for backwards compatibility and it simply includes both files, but applications are encouraged to use the new names. The new SHA3 functions are declared in <nettle/sha3.h>. * Testsuite can be run under valgrind, using make check EMULATOR='$(VALGRIND)' For this to work, test programs and other executables now deallocate storage. * New configure options --disable-documentation and --disable-static. Contributed by Sam Thursfield and Alon Bar-Lev, respectively. * The section on hash functions in the manual is split into separate nodes for recommended hash functions and legacy hash functions. * Various smaller improvements, most of them portability fixes. Credits go to David Woodhouse, Tim Rühsen, Martin Storsjö, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, Fredrik Thulin and Dennis Clarke. Finally, a note on the naming of the various "SHA" hash functions. Naming is a bit inconsistent; we have, e.g., SHA1: sha1_digest SHA2: sha256_digest (not sha2_256_digest) SHA3: sha3_256_digest Renaming the SHA2 functions to make Nettle's naming more consistent has been considered, but the current naming follows common usage. Most documents (including the specification for SHA2) refer to 256-bit SHA2 as "SHA-256" or "SHA256" rather than "SHA2-256". The libraries are intended to be binary compatible with nettle-2.2 and later. The shared library names are libnettle.so.4.5 and libhogweed.so.2.3, with sonames still libnettle.so.4 and libhogweed.so.2 NEWS for the 2.5 release This release includes important portability fixes for Windows and MacOS. There are also a few new features. First a *warning*: Some internal functions have been removed from the library. Since the functions in question are internal and not documented, this is not considered a change of ABI or API. Programs explicitly using any of these functions will break. * The function pkcs1_signature_prefix has been renamed to _pkcs1_signature_prefix, and with slightly different behavior. * The file nettle-internal.c is no longer included in the library (the features defined there are used by the benchmark and test programs, and were never intended for public use). New features: * Support for the salsa20 stream cipher, including x86_64 assembler. Originally contributed by Simon Josefsson, based on the reference implementation, then further optimized. * Tentative interface for timing-resistant RSA functions, contributed by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos. * A more general interface for PKCS#1 signatures, taking the input in the form of a "DigestInfo". Suggested by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos. Configuration: * Building of shared libraries (./configure --enable-shared) is now enabled by default. * Various portability fixes for MacOS and M$ Windows. A lot of this work done by Martin Storsjö. * In particular, Nettle now hopefully works on 64-bit Windows builds, "W64", including the x86_64 assembly code. Miscellaneous: * Documentation and example programs for the base16 and base64 functions. Was contributed by Jeronimo Pellegrini back in 2006, but unfortunately forgotten until now. * Use an additional table to avoid GF2^8 multiplications in aes_invert_key (mainly used by aes_set_decrypt_key). Also tabulate round constants in aes_set_encrypt_key. * The nettle repository has been migrated from cvs to git, with a public repository at http://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle. To make it independent of the LSH repository, a few files have been moved around. While at it, files have also been converted from latin-1 to utf-8. The libraries are intended to be binary compatible with nettle-2.2 and later. The shared library names are libnettle.so.4.4 and libhogweed.so.2.2, with sonames still libnettle.so.4 and libhogweed.so.2 NEWS for the 2.4 release This is a bugfix release only. It turned out ripemd160 in the 2.3 release was broken on all big-endian systems, due to a missing include of config.h. nettle-2.4 fixes this. The library is intended to be binary compatible with nettle-2.2 and nettle-2.3. The shared library names are libnettle.so.4.3 and libhogweed.so.2.1, with sonames still libnettle.so.4 and libhogweed.so.2. NEWS for the 2.3 release * Support for the ripemd-160 hash function. * Generates and installs nettle.pc and hogweed.pc files, for use with pkg-config. Feedback appreciated. For projects using autoconf, the traditional non-pkg-config ways of detecting libraries, and setting LIBS and LDFLAGS, is still recommended. * Fixed a bug which made the testsuite fail in the GCM test on certain platforms. Should not affect any documented features of the library. * Reorganization of the code for the various Merkle-Damgård hash functions. Some fields in the context structs for md4, md5 and sha1 have been renamed, for consistency. Applications should not peek inside these structs, and the ABI is unchanged. * In the manual, fixed mis-placed const in certain function prototypes. The library is intended to be binary compatible with nettle-2.2. The shared library names are libnettle.so.4.2 and libhogweed.so.2.1, with sonames still libnettle.so.4 and libhogweed.so.2. NEWS for the 2.2 release Licensing change: * Relicensed as LGPL v2.1 or later (user's option). * Replaced blowfish and serpent implementation. New code is based on the LGPLed code in libgcrypt. New features: * Support for Galois/Counter Mode (GCM). * New interface for enumerating (most) available algorithms, contributed by Daniel Kahn Gillmor. * New tool nettle-hash. Can generate hash digests using any supported hash function, with output compatible with md5sum and friends from GNU coreutils. Checking (like md5sum -c) not yet implemented. Bug fixes: * The old serpent code had a byte order bug (introduced by yours truly about ten years ago). New serpent implementation does not interoperate with earlier versions of nettle. * Fixed ABI-dependent libdir default for Linux-based systems which do not follow the Linux File Hierarchy Standard, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux. Optimizations: * x86_64 implemention of serpent. * x86_64 implemention of camellia. * Optimized memxor using word rather than byte operations. Both generic C and x86_64 assembler. * Eliminated a memcpy for in-place CBC decrypt. Miscellaneous: * In command line tools, no longer support -? for requesting help, since using it without shell quoting is a dangerous habit. Use long option --help instead. The shared library names are libnettle.so.4.1 and libhogweed.so.2.1, with sonames libnettle.so.4 and libhogweed.so.2. NEWS for the 2.1 release *Important*: this release breaks source and binary compatibility for the digital signature functions, and for the DES and BLOWFISH ciphers which have weak keys. Incompatible changes: * The functions rsa_md5_sign, rsa_sha1_sign and rsa_sha256_sign, and the corresponding _digest variants, now have a return value which callers should check. The functions return failure if the key is too small for the type of signature. * The functions dsa_sign and dsa_verify are renamed to dsa_sha1_sign and dsa_sha1_verify. The _-digest variants are renamed similarly. These functions now have a return value which callers should check, and they return failure if the number q is not of the appropriate size. * The return value from des_set_key, des3_set_key and blowfish_set_key now indicates whether or not the given key is weak. But in either case, the key setup is done, and applications that don't care about weak keys can ignore the return value. The incompatible part of this change is that enum des_error and enum blowfish_error has been deleted, and so has the status attribute in struct des_ctx, struct des3_ctx, and struct blowfish_ctx. The shared library names are libnettle.so.4.0 and libhogweed.so.2.0, with sonames libnettle.so.4 and libhogweed.so.2. Other changes: * Support for the Camellia block cipher, including an assembler implementation for x86_32. * New function aes_invert_key, useful for applications that need both encryption and decryption using the same AES key. * des_set_key and des3_set_key no longer check the key parity bits. Parity bits are silently ignored. A new function des_check_parity is provided, for applications that care about the DES parity bits. * Support for sha224, sha384 and sha512. * Support for digital signatures using rsa-sha512 and dsa-sha256. Due to lack of official test vectors and interop testing, this support should be considered somewhat experimental. * Key generation for RSA and DSA changed to use Maurer's algorithm to generate provably prime numbers (as usual, the mathematical proof does not guaranteee that the implementation is bug free). * x86_64 assembler implementation actually included in the distribution (was accidentally left out in nettle-2.0). * Configure script now detects if the compiler uses a 32-bit or 64-bit ABI on x86_64 (prevously did this for sparc only). Also sets the default location for installing libraries (libdir) depending on system type and the ABI used. * Added the nettle and gmp libraries as dependencies when linking shared library libhogweed.so. On systems using shared libraries where such dependencies work (in particular, ELF systems), it is sufficient to link applications with -lhogweed. For static linking -lhogweed -lnettle -lgmp is still required. * The program pkcs1-conv is extended to also handle dsa keys. Contributed by Magnus Holmgren. * Slightly improved sha1 performance on x86. NEWS for the 2.0 release This release breaks binary compatibility by splitting the library into two. Some other smaller changes that are not backwards compatible are also done at the same time. * The nettle library is split into two libraries, libnettle and libhogweed. libnettle contains the symmetric crypto algorithms that don't depend on GMP, while libhogweed contains the public key algorithms that depend on GMP. Using a single library worked fine with static linking, but not with dynamic linking. Consider an application that uses nettle and which doesn't use any public key cryptography. If this application is linked dynamically to nettle, it would have to be linked also with GMP if and only if public key support was enabled when the nettle library was installed. The library names are libnettle.so.3.0 and libhogweed.so.1.0, with sonames libnettle.so.3 and libhogweed.so.1. * Function typedefs have been changed to non-pointer types. E.g, the typedef void (nettle_hash_init_func *)(void *ctx); of previous versions is replaced by typedef void (nettle_hash_init_func)(void *ctx); This makes it possible to use the type when declaring functions, like nettle_hash_init_func foo_hash_init; void foo_hash_init(void *ctx) { ... } * Changes to the yarrow256 interface. The automatic seed file generation, and the seed_file member in struct yarrow256_ctx, has been removed. To generate a new seed file, use yarrow256_random. The function yarrow256_force_reseed has been replaced by the two functions yarrow256_fast_reseed and yarrow256_slow_reseed, which were previously static. This interface change makes it easier to mix in the current content of the seed file before overwriting it with newly generated data. Other changes: * Nettle manual now contributed to the public domain, to enable remixing into documentation of programs that use Nettle. * The sexp-conv program preserves comments when using the advanced syntax for output. Optionally locks the output file. * The base64 decoder recognizes ASCII FF (form feed) and VT (vertical tab) as white space. * New x86_64 implementations of AES and SHA1. On a 2.2 GHz opteron, SHA1 was benchmarked at 250 MByte/s, and AES-128 at 110 MByte/s. * Performance of AES increased by 20-30% on x86. * New programs in the examples directory: erathostenes and next-prime. NEWS for the 1.15 release Added support for PKCS#1 style RSA signatures using SHA256, according to RFC 3447. Currently lacks interoperability testing. Header files are now C++ aware, so C++ programs using Nettle should now use plain #include <nettle/foo.h> rather than #extern "C" { #include <nettle/foo.h> } as was the recommendation for the previous version. This breaks source-level compatibility with C++, even though there's full binary compatibility. The file rfc1750.txt (which is considered non-free by debian) has been removed from the distribution. The file was used as input for the Yarrow testcase, and has been replaced by the short story "The Gold-bug" by Edgar Allan Poe. Anyway, RFC 1750 is obsoleted by RFC 4086. Fixes for Darwin shared library support, contributed by Grant Robinsson. Example programs now use a supplied getopt.c. Configure tests for assemblers with a logarithmic .align directive. The library is intended to be upwards binary compatible with earlier versions. The library name is libnettle.so.2.6, soname is still libnettle.so.2. NEWS for the 1.14 release Experimental support for reading keys in PKCS#1 ASN1/DER format, and a new command line tool pkcs1-conv. Improved MD5 performance on x86. Fixed support for sparc64. Reorganized AES code. Better performance for all three implementations (C, x86 assembler, sparc assembler). New sparc assembler for arcfour. Compared to the code generated by gcc, the new code is about 25% faster on old sparcs, and 6 times faster on ultrasparc. Replaced the internal function nettle_mpz_from_octets with a call to mpz_import, if available in the installed GMP library. More Makefile fixes; it now seems to work to build with the the make programs on Solaris and FreeBSD (although --disable-dependency-tracking is required for the latter). The library is intended to be binary compatible with earlier versions. The library name is libnettle.so.2.5, soname is still libnettle.so.2. NEWS for the 1.13 release Fixed problem with broken m4 on bsd, which resulted in corrupted x86 assembler for sha1. Nettle probably works on windows: I've been able to cross compile it with ./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc (without public-key support), and the testsuite binaries seem to run fine in Wine. Implemented CTR mode. Improved sha1 performance on x86. Configure check to figure out if symbols in assembler files need a leading underscore. Improved benchmark program. Displays cycles per byte and block, and compares with openssl (if openssl is installed). Terminating newline in output from sexp-conv --hash. The library is intended to be binary compatible with earlier versions. The library name is libnettle.so.2.4. However, the interface for the internal function _nettle_sha1_compress has changed; any program that calls this function directly will break. NEWS for the 1.12 release Fixed a bug in the configure script. Updated the description of aes_set_encrypt_key and aes_set_decrypt_key in the manual. NEWS for the 1.11 release Nettle no longer uses automake. Side effects: * Dependency tracking is enabled only for gcc-3 (help with supporting dependency tracking with other compilers is appreciated). * Makefile compatibility with make programs other than GNU make is mostly unknown, please report any problems. Support for arctwo. Fixes to the libdes compatibility code. Declarations should now match openssl/libdes better. des_cbc_cksum pads input with NUL's, if it's not an integral number of blocks (in general, such unreversible padding is a bad idea). By default, also the static library is compiled as position independent code. This is needed on some systems to make it possible to link nettle into a dynamically loaded module. Use the configure flag --disable-pic if this is not desired. Stricter constness typing for the sexp_iterator_assoc and sexp_iterator_check_types arguments. Minor tweaks of arcfour on x86 cpu:s, to speed it up on older x86 variants such as PII and PPro. The shared library is intended to be binary compatible with nettle-1.8 - nettle-1.10. Only the minor version number of the shared library is increased. The soname is still libnettle.so.2. NEWS for the 1.10 release Nettle should now compile also on Tru64, Darwin, FreeBSD and Windows. (The only tested windows build uses the rntcl rsh wrapper to run the command line M$ C compiler "cl". See http://pike.ida.liu.se for those tools, I don't know all details about the Pike team's windows setup). There are some known testsuite failures, on Windows and on one of the xenofarm HPUX machines, see http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/xeno-lsh/latest.html. Help tracking these down is appreciated. There are no new features. This release is intended to be binary compatible with nettle-1.8 and nettle-1.9. NEWS for the 1.9 release Optimized C implementation of arcfour. Optimized x86 implementations of arcfour and sha1. Improved benchmark program. Fixed bug in the rsa-encrypt example program. Fixed bug in make install, some of the header files were forgotten. Portability fixes. Fixes to make Nettle compile on systems without gmp. This version has been tested on GNU/Linux, Solaris, HPUX and AIX. The shared library is intended to be binary compatible with nettle-1.8. Only the minor version number of the shared library is increased. NEWS for the 1.8 release New example programs, demonstrating encrypting and decrypting files using RSA, and random sessions keys for bulk encryption and message authentication. Support for systems that don't have alloca. On such systems, some of Nettle's functions have arbitrary limits applied to their input. Uses AX_CREATE_STDINT_H, to support systems without inttypes.h. Support for the md2 and md4 hash functions. New name mangling, to reduce the risk of link collisions. All functions (except memxor) now use a nettle_ or _nettle_ prefix when seen by the linker. For most functions, the header file that declares a function also uses #define to provide a shorter more readable name without the prefix. The shared library soname for this version is libnettle.so.2. NEWS for the 1.7 release Implemented DSA. Renamed RSA functions for consistency. Now it's rsa_public_key_init, not rsa_init_public_key, etc. Both RSA and DSA now have sign/verify functions that take the hash digest as argument. A rewritten and much more powerful sexp-conv program. Other changes to the sexp code, in particular updating it to the latest SPKI draft. Building nettle as a shared library (ELF only) seems to work. The version number is increased, so the library "soname" for this release is "libnettle.so.1". Bugfixes. Fixes for build and portability problems. NEWS for the 1.6 release Optimized assembler implementations of aes, for sparc and x86. The aes interface has changed slightly. The function aes_set_key is no more. Instead one has to use aes_set_encrypt_key or aes_set_decrypt_key. Sorry about that. New example programs, rsa-keygen, rsa-sign and rsa-verify, located in the examples directory. New configure option --enable-shared, which builds a shared library. Not tested. New experimental features, including sexp parsing and formatting, and changes to base64 encoding and decoding. The interfaces to these functions are subject to change, and are documented only in the source code. NEWS for the 1.5 release RSA support. Key generation and signatures. Support for HMAC (RFC-2104). An implementation of the Yarrow-256 PRNG. New sections in the manual. Changed the interface for hash functions. The md5_digest function is now equivalent to the old sequence of md5_final, md5_digest, md5_init, and similarly for the other hashing algorithms. This makes the interface simpler. NEWS for the 1.0 release Fixed twofish bug spotted by Jean-Pierre Stierlin. Added des3 and cbc. New RFC-1321-like interface in nettle/md5-compat.h, suggested by Assar Westerlund. New libdes-style compatibility interface in nettle/des-compat.h.