1.8.0, the first release of the new stable tree, is now available for download.
Features new to this release as compared to the previous stable releases include the addition of the elliptic curve algorithms ECDSA and ECDH, the SHA-224 hash function, the Salsa20 stream cipher, the Noekeon block cipher, CBC-MAC, and the custom PRF and MAC functions used by the SSLv3/TLSv1 protocols. DSA keys larger than 1024 bits can now be generated.
This release also features a huge number of optimizations and code cleanups, including a new modularized source layout and build system.
Many thanks to all of the people and organizations that contributed to this release, especially Yves Jerschow, who contributed numerous optimizations throughout the codebase, and the InSiTo team (Falko Strenzke, Martin Doering, Manuel Hartl, Christoph Ludwig, and others from FlexSecure GmbH and Technische Universitat Darmstadt), who developed and contributed, among other things, the implementations of ECDSA/ECDH and card verificable certificates.
Posted in releases at 2008/12/07 20:30; 0 comments
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