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  ANNOUNCE: Nettle-3.2 nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) - 2016-01-28 21:30 +0100

#1302 — ANNOUNCE: Nettle-3.2

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I'm happy to announce a new release of GNU Nettle, a low-level
cryptographics library. This is mainly a bug fix release, with few new
features.

The Nettle home page can be found at
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/, and the manual at
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/nettle.html.

NEWS for the Nettle 3.2 release

	Bug fixes:

	* The SHA3 implementation is updated according to the FIPS 202
	  standard. It is not interoperable with earlier versions of
	  Nettle. Thanks to Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos. To easily
	  differentiate at compile time, sha3.h defines the constant
	  NETTLE_SHA3_FIPS202.

	* Fix corner-case carry propagation bugs affecting elliptic
	  curve operations on the curves secp_256r1 and secp_384r1 on
	  certain platforms, including x86_64. Reported by Hanno Böck.

	New features:

	* New functions for RSA private key operations, identified by
	  the "_tr" suffix, with better resistance to side channel
	  attacks and to hardware or software failures which could
	  break the CRT optimization. See the Nettle manual for
	  details. Initial patch by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos.

	* New functions nettle_version_major, nettle_version_minor, as
	  a run-time variant of the compile-time constants
	  NETTLE_VERSION_MAJOR and NETTLE_VERSION_MINOR.

	Optimizations:

	* New ARM Neon implementation of the chacha stream cipher.

	Miscellaneous:

	* ABI detection on mips, with improved default libdir
	  location. Contributed by Klaus Ziegler.

	* Fixes for ARM assembly syntax, to work better with the clang
	  assembler. Thanks to Jukka Ukkonen.

	* Disabled use of ifunc relocations for fat builds, to fix
	  problems most easily triggered by using dlopen RTLD_NOW.

	The shared library names are libnettle.so.6.2 and
	libhogweed.so.4.2, with sonames still libnettle.so.6 and
	libhogweed.so.4. It is intended to be fully binary compatible
	with nettle-3.1.

  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.2.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.2.tar.gz
  https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-3.2.tar.gz

Happy hacking,
/Niels Möller

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