More news entries for nettle-2.5.

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 NEWS for the 2.5 release
 
+       This release includes important portability fixes for Windows
+       and MacOS. There are also a few new features.
+       
+       * Warning: The undocumented, internal, function
+         pkcs1_signature_prefix is changed. Since this is an internal
+         function, this is not considered a change of ABI or API.
+         Programs explicitly using this function will break.
+
+       New features:
+
+       * Support for the salsa20 block 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.
+
+       Miscellaneous:
+       
        * 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 assemby code.
+         builds, "W64", including the x86_64 assembly code.
 
-       * Documentation for the base16 and base64 functions. Was
-         contributed by Jeronimo Pellegrini back in 2006, but
-         unfortunately forgotten until now.
+       * Documentation and example programs for the base16 and base64
+         functions. Was contributed by Jeronimo Pellegrini back in
+         2006, but unfortunately forgotten until now.
 
        * The nettle repository has been migrated from cvs to git,
          with a public repository at