From 8c210b4e53b8566faea7ff0a175ad323236dd5d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Niels=20M=C3=B6ller?= <nisse@lysator.liu.se> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 22:12:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS file. --- NEWS | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 77e3d5c6..18f04111 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.5 release * Nettle's gcm_crypt will now call the underlying block cipher to process more than one block at a time. This is not a change to the documented behavior, but unfortunately breaks - assumptions accidentally made in gnutls, up to and including + assumptions accidentally made in GnuTLS, up to and including version 3.6.1. Bug fixes: @@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.5 release octet per block cipher operation), contributed by Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov. + * Support for CMAC (RFC 4493), contributed by Nikos + Mavrogiannopoulos. + Optimizations: * Improved performance of the x86_64 AES implementation using @@ -32,8 +35,16 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.5 release Extension to also handle GCM mode efficiently contributed by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos. - * New x86_64 implementation of sha1, for processors supporting - the sha_ni instructions. + * New x86_64 implementation of sha1 and sha256, for processors + supporting the sha_ni instructions. Speedup of 3-5 times on + affected processors. + + * Improved parameters for the precomputation of tables used + for ecc signatures. Roughly 10%-15% speedup of the ecdsa + sign operation using the secp_256r1, secp_384r1 and + secp_521r1 curves, and 25% speedup of ed25519 sign + operation, benchmarked on x86_64. Table sizes unchanged, + around 16 KB per curve. Miscellaneous: -- GitLab