Skip to content
GitLab
Menu
Projects
Groups
Snippets
Help
Help
Support
Community forum
Keyboard shortcuts
?
Submit feedback
Contribute to GitLab
Sign in / Register
Toggle navigation
Menu
Open sidebar
Wim Lewis
nettle
Commits
2ec13188
Commit
2ec13188
authored
May 03, 2013
by
Niels Möller
Browse files
Updated release plan for 2.8.
parent
66bf0965
Changes
1
Hide whitespace changes
Inline
Side-by-side
misc/plan.html
View file @
2ec13188
...
...
@@ -28,83 +28,17 @@
Leave for some later release!
</p>
<h1>
Plan for the Nettle-2.7 release
</h1>
<h2>
Code
</h2>
<p
class=
'done'
>
Support older GMP versions, as far as practical.
</p>
<p
class=
'done'
>
Make use of GMP's mpn_cnd_add_n and mpn_sub_n (which will be
available in the next GMP release).
</p>
<p
class=
'done'
>
Implement
<tt>
ecc_point_mul
</tt>
and
<tt>
ecc_point_mul_g
</tt>
.
</p>
<p
class=
'done'
>
Rewrite x86_64/sha3-permute.asm. Moves between xmm registers and
regular registers kill performance at least on some AMD
processors. (Not rewritten, only moves changed to go via memory).
</p>
<p
class=
'done'
>
Include UMAC. Needs a serious effort to produce test vectors.
</p>
<h2>
Documentation
</h2>
<p
class=
'done'
>
Document new ECC functions.
</p>
<p
class=
'done'
>
Document salsa20r12.
</p>
<p
class=
'done'
>
Document umac.
</p>
<p
class=
'done'
>
Update NEWS file.
</p>
<h2>
Build system
</h2>
<p
class=
'done'
>
Ensure that
<tt>
make install
</tt>
without a preceding
<tt>
make
</tt>
works.
</p>
<p
class=
'done'
>
Make the assembly ALIGN-macro non-logarithmic, reusing the m4 log2
macro in GMP. Current macros have the problem that in m4 eval,
<tt>
<<
</tt>
is not supported by Solaris, while
<tt>
**
</tt>
is not supported by OpenBSD.
</p>
<h2>
Testing
</h2>
<p>
Since xenofarm isn't up and running, do some manual testing:
</p>
<ul>
<li
class=
'done'
>
x86_64-linux-gnu
</li>
<li
class=
'should'
>
x86_64-freebsd
</li>
<li
class=
'done'
>
x86-linux-gnu
</li>
<li
class=
'should'
>
x86-freebsd
</li>
<li
class=
'done'
>
x86-w*ndows (using cross compiler and wine)
</li>
<li
class=
'wish'
>
x86_64-w*ndows (seems a bit harder since 64-bit
wine is not yet available in debian)
</li>
<li
class=
'should'
>
x86-darwin (needs help from Nettle users)
</li>
<li
class=
'should'
>
x86_64-darwin (needs help from Nettle users)
</li>
<li
class=
'done'
>
armv7-linux-gnu (pandaboard test platform)
</li>
<li
class=
'wish'
>
armv7-android (possible test platform: N10 tablet)
</li>
<li
class=
'done'
>
sparc32-solaris10
</li>
<li
class=
'done'
>
sparc64-solaris10
</li>
</ul>
<h1>
Plans for nettle-2.8
</h1>
<p>
nettle-2.8 is intended to be a minor API cleanup, with few new
features.
</p>
<h2>
Interface changes
</h2>
<p
class=
'
should
'
>
<p
class=
'
done
'
>
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
'
>
<p
class=
'
done
'
>
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
...
...
@@ -117,6 +51,12 @@
<p
class=
'should'
>
Move some internal-use macros from macros.h to nettle-internal.h.
</p>
<p
class=
'should'
>
Do separate aes128_ctx, etc, with smaller allocation for subkeys.
</p>
<p
class=
'should'
>
Don't require initialization of *dst_length for base*_decode_update.
</p>
<h2>
Build system
</h2>
<p
class=
'should'
>
...
...
@@ -129,6 +69,25 @@
Delay building of test programs until
<tt>
make check
</tt>
.
</p>
<h2>
Testing
</h2>
<p>
Since xenofarm isn't up and running, do some manual testing:
</p>
<ul>
<li
class=
'should'
>
x86_64-linux-gnu
</li>
<li
class=
'should'
>
x86_64-freebsd
</li>
<li
class=
'should'
>
x86-linux-gnu
</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 since 64-bit
wine is not yet available in debian)
</li>
<li
class=
'should'
>
x86-darwin (needs help from Nettle users)
</li>
<li
class=
'should'
>
x86_64-darwin (needs help from Nettle users)
</li>
<li
class=
'should'
>
armv7-linux-gnu (pandaboard test platform)
</li>
<li
class=
'wish'
>
armv7-android (possible test platform: N10 tablet)
</li>
<li
class=
'should'
>
sparc32-solaris10
</li>
<li
class=
'should'
>
sparc64-solaris10
</li>
</ul>
<h1>
Plans for nettle-3.0
</h1>
<p>
These are some larger API changes under consideration.
</p>
...
...
Write
Preview
Markdown
is supported
0%
Try again
or
attach a new file
.
Attach a file
Cancel
You are about to add
0
people
to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Cancel
Please
register
or
sign in
to comment