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Nettle
nettle
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Nov 29, 2012
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Niels Möller
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Started on plan for nettle-2.6.
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<body>
<h1>
Nettle release plans
</h1>
<p>
This is an attempt at defining a development target for
Nettle-2.
5
, inspired by similar pages for recent GMP releases. [Last
updated 2012-
06-0
9]
</p>
Nettle-2.
6
, inspired by similar pages for recent GMP releases. [Last
updated 2012-
11-2
9]
</p>
<p
class=
'should'
>
This really ought to be done before release
</p>
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Leave for some later release!
</p>
<h1>
Plan for the Nettle-2.5 release
</h1>
<h2>
RSA blinding
</h2>
<p
class=
'done'
>
Add tentative interface, as suggested by Nikos. Don't try yet to
get blinding variants of
<em>
all
</em>
signature functions.
</p>
<h1>
Plan for the Nettle-2.6 release
</h1>
<h2>
Documentation
</h2>
<p
class=
'
done
'
>
Update documentation with info on S
alsa20
.
<p
class=
'
should
'
>
Update documentation with info on S
HA3
.
</p>
<p
class=
'should'
>
Update NEWS file.
</p>
<h2>
Bug fixes
</h2>
<p
class=
'done'
>
Various w64 fixes, mostly by Martin Storsjö.
</p>
<p
class=
'done'
>
Workaround for uint8_fast_t gnutls/gnulib incompatibilty on SunOS 5.8.
</p>
<h2>
Other
</h2>
<p
class=
'done'
>
The interface of the internal function
<tt>
pkcs1_signature_prefix
</tt>
has changed. Rename it to
<tt>
_pkcs1_signature_prefix
</tt>
, to clearly mark it internal and
also make applications using it fail more predictably at compile or
link time.
</p>
<h2>
Testing
</h2>
<p>
Since xenofarm isn't up and running, do some manual testing:
</p>
<ul>
<li
class=
'
done
'
>
x86_64-gnu-linux
</li>
<li
class=
'
done
'
>
x86_64-freebsd
</li>
<li
class=
'
done
'
>
x86-gnu-linux
</li>
<li
class=
'
done
'
>
x86-freebsd
</li>
<li
class=
'
done
'
>
x86-w*ndows (using cross compiler and wine)
</li>
<li
class=
'
should
'
>
x86_64-gnu-linux
</li>
<li
class=
'
should
'
>
x86_64-freebsd
</li>
<li
class=
'
should
'
>
x86-gnu-linux
</li>
<li
class=
'
should
'
>
x86-freebsd
</li>
<li
class=
'
should
'
>
x86-w*ndows (using cross compiler and wine)
</li>
<li
class=
'wish'
>
x86_64-w*ndows (seems a bit harder to get
mingw64 and wine64 working)
</li>
<li
class=
'
done
'
>
sparc32-solaris10
</li>
<li
class=
'
done
'
>
sparc64-solaris10
</li>
<li
class=
'
should
'
>
sparc32-solaris10
</li>
<li
class=
'
should
'
>
sparc64-solaris10
</li>
</ul>
<h1>
Plans for nettle-3.0
</h1>
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Change the type of all lengths from
<tt>
unsigned
</tt>
to
<tt>
size_t
</tt>
. An ABI change on most 64-bit platforms.
</p>
<p
class=
'should'
>
Change argument type of memxor and memxor3 from uint8_t * to void
* (like modern memcpy). Consider them unconditionally part of the
nettle library, with nettle_ prefix on the symbols, and no
AC_REPLACE_FUNCS.
</p>
<p
class=
'should'
>
Rename sha256 to sha2_256, and similar for other sha2 functions.
Split sha.h into sha1.h and sha2.h. For backwards compatibility,
keep sha.h with old names as aliases.
</p>
<p
class=
'should'
>
For Merkle-Damgaard hash functions, separate the state and the
buffering. E.g., when using them for HMAC keyed "inner" and
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