<h1> Nettle release plans </h1>
<p> This is an attempt at defining a development target for
Nettle-2.8, inspired by similar pages for recent GMP releases. [Last
- updated 2013-06-25]</p>
+ updated 2013-10-05]</p>
<p class='should'>
This really ought to be done before release
</p>
<p class='should'>
Move some internal-use macros from macros.h to nettle-internal.h.
</p>
- <p class='should'>
+ <p class='done'>
Do separate aes128_ctx, etc, with smaller allocation for subkeys.
</p>
+ <p class='wish'>
+ Consider doing the same separation for camellia, cast128, and
+ twofish, which also use fewer subkeys for shorter key sizes.
+ </p>
<p class='should'>
Don't require initialization of *dst_length for base*_decode_update.
</p>
Rename gcm "iv" to "nonce". Keep old names for backwards
compatibility.
</p>
- <p class='wish'>
+
+ <h2> New features </h2>
+ <p class='done'>
Add <a href='http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/eax.pdf'>EAX</a >
mode?
</p>
-
+
<h2> Documentation </h2>
<p class='should'>
Document new AES interface.
</p>
+ <p class='should'>
+ Document new EAX mode.
+ </p>
<h2> Build system </h2>
<p class='should'>
<p class='should'>
Delay building of test programs until <tt>make check</tt>.
</p>
+ <p class='done'>
+ Fix dependency problems with <tt>--disable-static</tt>.
+ </p>
<h2> Testing </h2>
<p> Since xenofarm isn't up and running, do some manual testing: