<h1> Nettle release plans </h1>
<p> This is an attempt at defining a development target for
Nettle-2.5, inspired by similar pages for recent GMP releases. [Last
- updated 2012-04-30]</p>
+ updated 2012-06-09]</p>
<p class='should'>
This really ought to be done before release
</p>
<h1> Plan for the Nettle-2.5 release </h1>
<h2> RSA blinding </h2>
- <p class='wish'>
+ <p class='done'>
Add tentative interface, as suggested by Nikos. Don't try yet to
get blinding variants of <em>all</em> signature functions.
</p>
<p class='done'>
Various w64 fixes, mostly by Martin Storsjö.
</p>
- <p class='wish'>
+ <p class='done'>
Workaround for uint8_fast_t gnutls/gnulib incompatibilty on SunOS 5.8.
</p>
-
+
+ <h2> Other </h2>
+ <p class='should'> The interface of the internal function
+ <tt>pkcs1_signature_prefix</tt> has changed. Consider renaming it to
+ <tt>_pkcs1_signature_prefix</tt>, to clearly mark it internal and
+ also make applications using it fail more predictably at compile or
+ link time.</p>
+
<h2> Testing </h2>
<p> Since xenofarm isn't up and running, do some manual testing:
</p>
<ul>
- <li class='should'> x86_64-gnu-linux</li>
+ <li class='done'> x86_64-gnu-linux</li>
<li class='should'> x86_64-freebsd</li>
- <li class='should'> x86-gnu-linux</li>
+ <li class='done'> x86-gnu-linux</li>
<li class='should'> x86-freebsd</li>
<li class='should'> x86-w*ndows (using cross compiler and wine)</li>
<li class='wish'> x86_64-w*ndows (seems a bit harder to get