From 5d0ecbccd2510f47cbd1ecb93a40f5c67b403986 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Niels=20M=C3=B6ller?= <nisse@lysator.liu.se> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:52:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Minor improvements. Rev: nettle/NEWS:1.11 --- NEWS | 22 +++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 16030389..50138014 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ NEWS for the 2.2 release Licensing change: - * Relicensed as LGPL v2.1 or later. + * Relicensed as LGPL v2.1 or later (user's option). * Replaced blowfish and serpent implementation. New code is based on the LGPLed code in libgcrypt. @@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ NEWS for the 2.2 release contributed by Daniel Kahn Gillmor. * New tool nettle-hash. Can generate hash digests using any - supported hash function, with output compatible to programs - like md5sum. Checking (like md5sum -c) not yet implemented. + supported hash function, with output compatible with md5sum + and friends from GNU coreutils. Checking (like md5sum -c) + not yet implemented. Bug fixes: @@ -24,14 +25,13 @@ NEWS for the 2.2 release yours truly about ten years ago). New serpent implementation does not interoperate with earlier versions of nettle. - * Fixed ABI-dependent libdir default for linux-based systems - which do not follow the conventions Linux File Hierarchy - Standard, e.g., Debian GNU/linux. + * Fixed ABI-dependent libdir default for Linux-based systems + which do not follow the Linux File Hierarchy Standard, e.g., + Debian GNU/Linux. Optimizations: - * x86_64 implemention of serpent_encrypt (serpent_decrypt not - yet done). + * x86_64 implemention of serpent. * x86_64 implemention of camellia. @@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ NEWS for the 2.2 release Miscellaneous: - * In command line tools, don't use -? for requesting help, - since it's a bit dangerous without shell quoting. Use long - option --help instead. + * In command line tools, no longer support -? for requesting + help, since using it without shell quoting is a dangerous + habit. Use long option --help instead. The shared library names are libnettle.so.4.1 and libhogweed.so.2.1, with sonames libnettle.so.4 and -- GitLab