From: Niels Möller Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:34:43 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Updated release plan X-Git-Tag: nettle_3.1rc1~57 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=25ce12d03fb7fc4dcaf921964c22d565e2439eb4;p=thirdparty%2Fnettle.git Updated release plan --- diff --git a/misc/plan.html b/misc/plan.html index aafd0992..bc42981e 100644 --- a/misc/plan.html +++ b/misc/plan.html @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@

Nettle release plans

This is an attempt at defining a development target for - Nettle-3.1, inspired by similar pages for recent GMP releases. [Last - updated 2014-09-07]

+ Nettle-3.1, inspired by similar pages for recent GMP releases. + [Last updated 2014-10-22]

This really ought to be done before release

@@ -37,11 +37,12 @@

New features

- Add support for curve25519. What about the "x25519" name? +

+ Add support for curve25519. What about the + "x25519" name?

- Add support for EdDSA25519 signatures. +

+ Add support for Ed25519 signatures.

Add larger "safe" curves, e.g., M-383, curve41417 and E-521. @@ -68,6 +69,12 @@

Assembly optimizations for ARMv8 (64-bit).

+ Further optimizations of curve25519 and EdDSA, in particular, + radix 51 modp operations, + and more + efficient point addition. +

Miscellaneous

@@ -128,9 +135,11 @@

Reorganize private key operations. Need to support RSA with and without blinding, and DSA according to spec and some deterministic - variant (like putty), and possibly also smartcard versions where - the private key is not available to the library. And without an - explosion of the number of functions. + variant (like putty + or RFC6979), and + possibly also smartcard versions where the private key is not + available to the library. And without an explosion of the number + of functions.