Botan 1.3.8 was released today, because I'm moving in a few days and want to get this out the door. It's not exactly polished (read: known serious bugs), but it has a lot of nice new stuff. Botan now has the ability to plug arbitrary backends (engines) into PK operations - with the GMP engine (included), RSA in Botan is several times faster than OpenSSL.
There are also several new hooks to help out GUI programs that use Botan. It's not documented yet, but an example application using GTK+ 2 hits the high points.
1.3.8 is getting towards what I have in mind for 1.4.0, but there are some fairly major performance problems in 1.3.8 (5-10% slower than 1.2.8 in several cases). These are all easily fixable (doing some basic optimizations in the new Montgomery reducer will alone push 1.4.0 past 1.2.x performance-wise), but I'll need time, which I currently do not have.
Posted in releases at 2003/12/30 13:19; 0 comments
Reorganized the web site a bit to make things easier to find, and give me a place to put news.
Posted in announcements at 2003/12/30 02:16; 0 comments