From: Niels Möller Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 19:15:38 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Deleted the manual's incomplete and out of date list of authors. X-Git-Tag: nettle_3.8_release_20220602~8 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=efb2ec7f94841334f21dca6110b26e6dc671df16;p=thirdparty%2Fnettle.git Deleted the manual's incomplete and out of date list of authors. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 346954eb..d262e512 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2022-04-28 Niels Möller + + * nettle.texinfo (Copyright): Deleted incomplete and out of date + list of authors. Replaced by... + * AUTHORS: New updated list of authors and contributions. + 2022-02-23 Niels Möller Analogous s390x update, by Mamone Tarsha: diff --git a/nettle.texinfo b/nettle.texinfo index 76934637..25422502 100644 --- a/nettle.texinfo +++ b/nettle.texinfo @@ -196,123 +196,6 @@ in part, e.g., into documentation of programs that build on Nettle. Attribution, as well as contribution of improvements to the text, is of course appreciated, but it is not required. -A list of the supported algorithms, their origins, and exceptions to the -above licensing: - -@table @emph -@item AES -The implementation of the AES cipher (also known as rijndael) is written -by Rafael Sevilla. Assembler for x86 by Rafael Sevilla and -@value{AUTHOR}, Sparc assembler by @value{AUTHOR}. - -@item ARCFOUR -The implementation of the ARCFOUR (also known as RC4) cipher is written -by @value{AUTHOR}. - -@item ARCTWO -The implementation of the ARCTWO (also known as RC2) cipher is written -by Nikos Mavroyanopoulos and modified by Werner Koch and Simon -Josefsson. - -@item BLOWFISH -The implementation of the BLOWFISH cipher is written by Werner Koch, -copyright owned by the Free Software Foundation. Also hacked by Simon -Josefsson and Niels Möller. - -@item CAMELLIA -The C implementation is by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation -(NTT), heavily modified by @value{AUTHOR}. Assembler for x86 and x86_64 -by @value{AUTHOR}. - -@item CAST128 -The implementation of the CAST128 cipher is written by Steve Reid. -Released into the public domain. - -@item CHACHA -Implemented by Joachim Strömbergson, based on the implementation of -SALSA20 (see below). Assembly for x86_64 by Niels Möller. - -@item DES -The implementation of the DES cipher is written by Dana L. How, and -released under the LGPL, version 2 or later. - -@item GOSTHASH94 -The C implementation of the GOST94 message digest is written by -Aleksey Kravchenko and was ported from the rhash library by Nikos -Mavrogiannopoulos. It is released under the MIT license. - -@item MD2 -The implementation of MD2 is written by Andrew Kuchling, and hacked -some by Andreas Sigfridsson and @value{AUTHOR}. Python Cryptography -Toolkit license (essentially public domain). - -@item MD4 -This is almost the same code as for MD5 below, with modifications by -Marcus Comstedt. Released into the public domain. - -@item MD5 -The implementation of the MD5 message digest is written by Colin Plumb. -It has been hacked some more by Andrew Kuchling and @value{AUTHOR}. -Released into the public domain. - -@item PBKDF2 -The C implementation of PBKDF2 is based on earlier work for Shishi and -GnuTLS by Simon Josefsson. - -@item RIPEMD160 -The implementation of RIPEMD160 message digest is based on the code in -libgcrypt, copyright owned by the Free Software Foundation. Ported to -Nettle by Andres Mejia. - -@item SALSA20 -The C implementation of SALSA20 is based on D. J. Bernstein's reference -implementation (in the public domain), adapted to Nettle by Simon -Josefsson, and heavily modified by Niels Möller. Assembly for x86_64 and -ARM by Niels Möller. - -@item SERPENT -The implementation of the SERPENT cipher is based on the code in libgcrypt, -copyright owned by the Free Software Foundation. Adapted to Nettle by -Simon Josefsson and heavily modified by Niels Möller. Assembly for -x86_64 by Niels Möller. - -@item POLY1305 -Based on the implementation by Andrew M. (floodyberry), modified by -Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos and Niels Möller. Assembly for x86_64 by Niels -Möller. - -@item SHA1 -The C implementation of the SHA1 message digest is written by Peter -Gutmann, and hacked some more by Andrew Kuchling and @value{AUTHOR}. -Released into the public domain. Assembler for x86, x86_64 and ARM by -@value{AUTHOR}, released under the LGPL. - -@item SHA2 -Written by @value{AUTHOR}, using Peter Gutmann's SHA1 code as a model. - -@item SHA3 -Written by @value{AUTHOR}. - -@item TWOFISH -The implementation of the TWOFISH cipher is written by Ruud de Rooij. - -@item UMAC -Written by @value{AUTHOR}. - -@item CMAC -Written by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, @value{AUTHOR}, Jeremy Allison, Michael Adam and Stefan Metzmacher. - -@item RSA -Written by @value{AUTHOR}. Uses the GMP library for bignum operations. - -@item DSA -Written by @value{AUTHOR}. Uses the GMP library for bignum operations. - -@item ECDSA -Written by @value{AUTHOR}. Uses the GMP library for bignum operations. -Development of Nettle's ECC support was funded by the .SE Internet Fund. -@end table - @node Conventions @chapter Conventions