Botan 1.8.6: New CryptoBox feature, plus Open64, DragonflyBSD support
Botan 1.8.6 has been released.
This release adds support for a simple password-based encryption
scheme, accessable via cryptobox.h.
The /proc-walking entropy source will now only read world readable
files; this is to prevent various unpleasant interactions which were
discovered when applications using Botan running as root attempted to
open and read files such as /proc/kmsg.
This release fixes problems building on Linux/MIPS systems, systems that do not have a TR1 implementation, and compiling under the Sun C++ compiler. In addition support for the Open64 compiler and the Dragonfly BSD operating system were added.
Previously the x86 bswap instruction was not used under Visual C++ due to a bug, this has now been corrected.
Posted 2009/08/13 in releases; no comments
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