Botan 1.5.11 has been released. Most of the changes in this release will not be visible to the casual user; particularly noticeable ones are a near complete rewrite of the configure/build system, which is now much more flexible and easy to work with, and various changes in the inheritance hierarchy of the public key cryptosystems and basic symmetric algorithms.
An x86 assembler version of the Serpent block cipher has been added; it benchmarks as being around twice as fast as the C++ version. Also new are some small parts of BigInt implemented in x86 assembler.
The Python wrappers, which use Boost.Python, are significantly improved, though there is still a very long way to go on that front. This version fixes the compile problems in recent development versions that were being encountered by Visual Studio users.
Posted 2006/09/09 in releases; no comments
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