-NEWS for the 2.8 release
+NEWS for the Nettle 3.0 release
- This release includes several interface changes. It is not
- binary compatible with earlier versions. It is mostly
- source-level (API) compatible, with a couple of
+ This is a major release, including several interface changes,
+ and new features, some of which are a bit experimental.
+ Feedback is highly appreciated.
+
+ It is *not* binary (ABI) compatible with earlier versions. It
+ is mostly source-level (API) compatible, with a couple of
incompatibilities noted below.
+ There may be some problems in the new interfaces and new
+ features which really need incompatible fixes. It is likely
+ that there will be an update in the form of a 3.1 release in
+ the not too distant future, with small but incompatible
+ changes, and if that happens, bugfix-only releases 3.0.x are
+ unlikely. Users and applications which desire better API and
+ ABI stability are advised to stay with nettle-2.7.x (latest
+ version is now 2.7.1) until the dust settles.
+
Interface changes:
* For the many _set_key functions, it is now consider the
- normal case to have a fixed key size, with no key_size
- arguments. _set_key functions with a length parameter are
- provided only for algorithms with a truly variable keysize,
- and where it makes sense for backwards compatibility.
+ normal case to have a fixed key size, with no key_size
+ arguments. _set_key functions with a length parameter are
+ provided only for algorithms with a truly variable keysize,
+ and where it makes sense for backwards compatibility.
- INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: cast128_set_key no longer accepts a key size
- argument. The old function is available under the new name.
- cast5_set_key.
+ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: cast128_set_key no longer accepts a key
+ size argument. The old function is available under a new
+ name, cast5_set_key.
INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: The function typedef
nettle_set_key_func no longer accepts a key size argument.
In particular, this affects users of struct nettle_cipher.
+ * The nettle_cipher abstraction (in nettle-meta.h) is
+ restricted to block ciphers only. The encrypt and decrypt
+ functions now take a const argument for the context.
+
+ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: nettle_arcfour, i.e., the nettle_cipher
+ abstraction for the arcfour stream cipher, is deleted.
+
+ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: New type, nettle_cipher_func, for the
+ encrypt and decrypt fields of struct nettle_cipher.
+
+ * New DSA interface, with a separate struct dsa_param to
+ represent the underlying group, and generalized dsa_sign and
+ dsa_verify functions which don't care about the hash
+ function used. Limited backwards compatibility provided in
+ dsa-compat.h.
+
+ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: Declarations of the old interface,
+ e.g., struct dsa_public_key, dsa_sha1_sign, etc, is moved to
+ dsa-compat.h.
+
+ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: The various key conversion functions,
+ e.g., dsa_keypair_to_sexp, all use the new DSA interface, with
+ no backwards compatible functions.
+
+ INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dsa_generate_keypair also uses the new
+ interface. dsa-compat.h declares a function
+ dsa_compate_generate_keypair, implementing the old
+ interface, and #defines dsa_generate_keypair to refer to
+ this backwards compatible function.
+
* New AES and Camellia interfaces. There are now separate
- context structs for each key size, e.g., aes128_ctx and
- camellia256_ctx, and corresponding new functions. The old
- interface, with struct aes_ctx and struct camellia_ctx, is
- kept for backwards compatibility, but might be removed in
- later versions.
+ context structs for each key size, e.g., aes128_ctx and
+ camellia256_ctx, and corresponding new functions. The old
+ interface, with struct aes_ctx and struct camellia_ctx, is
+ kept for backwards compatibility, but might be removed in
+ later versions.
* The type of most length arguments is changed from unsigned
- to size_t. The memxor functions have their pointer arguments
- changed from uint8_t * to void *, for consistency with
- related libc functions.
+ to size_t. The memxor functions have their pointer arguments
+ changed from uint8_t * to void *, for consistency with
+ related libc functions.
- * DSA: Support a wider range for the size of q. XXX Also
- interface changes.
-
Bug fixes:
* Building with ./configure --disable-static now works.
-
+
+ * Use GMP's allocation functions for temporary storage related
+ to bignums, to avoid potentially large stack allocations.
+
New features:
* Support for poly1305-aes MAC.
* Experimental support for the Chacha stream cipher and the
- chacha-poly1305 AEAD mode. Specifications are still in
- flux, and future releases may do incompatible changes to
- track standardization. Currently uses 256-bit key and 64-bit
- nonce.
+ chacha-poly1305 AEAD mode. Specifications are still in
+ flux, and future releases may do incompatible changes to
+ track standardization. Currently uses 256-bit key and 64-bit
+ nonce.
* Support for EAX mode.
- * New interfaces for mechanisms providing authenticated
- encryption with associated data (AEAD).
-
+ * Support for CCM mode. Contributed by Owen Kirby.
+
+ * Support for additional variants of SHA512 with output size
+ of 224 and 256 bits. Contributed by Joachim Strömbergson.
+
+ * New interface, struct nettle_aead, for mechanisms providing
+ authenticated encryption with associated data (AEAD).
+
+ * DSA: Support a wider range for the size of q and a wider
+ range for the digest size.
+
Optimizations:
* New x86_64 assembly for GCM and MD5. Modest speedups on the
- order of 10%-20%.
-
+ order of 10%-20%.
+
Miscellaneous:
- * Use GMP's allocation functions for temporary storage related
- to bignums, to avoid potentially large stack allocations.
-
* The portability fix for the rotation macros, mentioned in
NEWS for 2.7.1, actually didn't make it into that release.
It is included now.
+ * cast128_set_key rewritten for clarity, also eliminating a
+ couple of compiler warnings.
+
+ * New command line tool nettle-pbkdf2.
+
NEWS for the 2.7.1 release
This is a bugfix release.
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