Version 1.8.3, 2009-07-11
- Add a new Python configuration script
- Add the Skein-512 SHA-3 candidate hash function
- Add the XTS block cipher mode from IEEE P1619
- Fix random_prime when generating a prime of less than 7 bits
- Improve handling of low-entropy situations during PRNG seeding
- Change random device polling to prefer /dev/urandom over /dev/random
- Use an input insensitive implementation of same_mem instead of memcmp
- Correct DataSource::discard_next to return the number of discarded bytes
- Provide a default value for AutoSeeded_RNG::reseed
- Fix Gentoo bug 272242