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Jan 27, 2014
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Niels Möller
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Updated release plans.
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<h1>
Nettle release plans
</h1>
<p>
This is an attempt at defining a development target for
Nettle-2.8, inspired by similar pages for recent GMP releases. [Last
updated 2014-01-
02
]
</p>
updated 2014-01-
27
]
</p>
<p
class=
'should'
>
This really ought to be done before release
</p>
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Do separate aes128_ctx, etc, with smaller allocation for subkeys.
</p>
<p
class=
'wish'
>
Consider doing the same separation for camellia (and possibly
cast128), which also use fewer subkeys for shorter key sizes.
<span
class=
'done'
>
Do the same separation for camellia, which also
use fewer subkeys for shorter key
sizes.
</span>
<span
class=
'postponed'
>
(And possibly also for
cast128).
</span>
</p>
<p
class=
'should'
>
Don't require initialization of *dst_length for base*_decode_update.
</p>
<p
class=
'should'
>
Rename gcm "iv" to "nonce". Keep old names for backwards
compatibility.
New DSA interface, with a separate struct dsa_params.
</p>
<p
class=
'should'
>
New DSA interface, with a separate struct dsa_params.
Drop key size argument from
<tt>
nettle_set_key_func
</tt>
.
</p>
<p
class=
'should'
>
Use the nettle_cipher abstraction only for block ciphers (in
particular, exclude arcfour). Use a const for the ctx argument to
nettle_crypt_func.
</p>
<p
class=
'wish'
>
Consider making a public interface similar to nettle_aead? With
the above change, it can't use nettle_crypt_func.
</p>
<h2>
New features
</h2>
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@@ -74,10 +84,10 @@
Add
<a
href=
'http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/eax.pdf'
>
EAX
</a
>
mode?
</p>
<p
class=
'
should
'
>
<p
class=
'
done
'
>
Add poly1305.
</p>
<p
class=
'
should
'
>
<p
class=
'
done
'
>
Add chacha.
</p>
<p
class=
'should'
>
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@@ -103,6 +113,9 @@
<p
class=
'should'
>
Document poly1305.
</p>
<p
class=
'should'
>
Document chacha.
</p>
<h2>
Build system
</h2>
<p
class=
'done'
>
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buffering. E.g., when using them for HMAC keyed "inner" and
"outer" states, we now get three buffers but we only need one.
</p>
<p
class=
'should'
>
Use the nettle_cipher abstraction only for block ciphers (in
particular, exclude arcfour). Use a const for the ctx argument to
nettle_crypt_func.
</p>
<p
class=
'wish'
>
Consider making a public interface similar to nettle_aead? With
the above change, it can't use nettle_crypt_func.
</p>
<p
class=
'wish'
>
Make it possible to build nettle and hogweed using mini-gmp.
</p>
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