New features:
- * Support for PKCS #5 PBKDF2. Contributed by Simon Josefsson.
+ * 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 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.
-
* 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