Botan 1.5.10 has been released. The major addition of this release is x86 assembler versions of the MD4, MD5, and SHA-1 hash functions. On the machines they have been tested on, they come in at roughly 50-60% faster than the C++ versions when compiled with GCC.
There are various changes to make the library more resilient against runtime failures, preventing memory leaks, catching exceptions, and so forth. Option parsing in the test/benchmark tool is much improved, and an example application that factors integers using Pollard's Rho heuristic has been added. The InitializeOptions object now understands negated options, so settings can be explicitly disabled.
Posted 2006/08/13 in releases; no comments
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