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Rev: src/nettle/ChangeLog:1.289
Rev: src/nettle/NEWS:1.19

ChangeLog

+2004-10-26  Niels Mller  <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
+
+	* x86/arcfour-crypt.asm: Use movzbl when extending %cl to 32 bits.
+
+2004-10-24  Niels Mller  <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
+
+	* x86/arcfour-crypt.asm: Reverted the latest two changes; update
+	bost src and dst pointers in the loop, and use plain addb when
+	updating j. These two previous changes slowed the code down on AMD
+	Duron. 
+
 2004-10-21  Niels Mller  <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
 
 	* Makefile.in (install-shared): Use $(INSTALL_PROGRAM).

NEWS

@@ -24,12 +24,13 @@ NEWS for the 1.11 release
 	Stricter constness typing for the sexp_iterator_assoc and
 	sexp_iterator_check_types arguments.
 
-	Speedup of arcfour on older x86 cpu:s, in particular PII and
-	PPro.
+	Minor tweaks of arcfour on x86 cpu:s, to speed it up on older
+	x86 variants such as PII and PPro.
 
 	The shared library is intended to be binary compatible with
 	nettle-1.8 - nettle-1.10. Only the minor version number of the
-	shared library is increased.
+	shared library is increased. The soname is still
+	libnettle.so.2.
 
 NEWS for the 1.10 release