From 988f28861cea422ab0e14d89653e4bb94daa23bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Niels=20M=C3=B6ller?= <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:26:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] New items.
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-<title>TODO for the nettle-2.2 release</title>
+<title>TODO for coming nettle-2.2 releases</title>
</head>
<body>
- <h1> Plans for the Nettle-2.2 release </h1>
+ <h1> Release plans </h1>
<p> This is an attempt at defining a development target for
- Nettle-2.2, inspired by similar pages for recent GMP releases.
- [Last updated 2011-07-01]</p>
+ Nettle-2.5, inspired by similar pages for recent GMP releases.
+ [Last updated 2012-04-29]</p>
<h2> Color codes </h2>
<p class='should'>
This really ought to be done before release
@@ -28,42 +28,65 @@
<p class='postponed'>
Leave for some later release!
</p>
- <h2> License change </h2>
- <p class='done'>
- Replace remaining GPLd code: serpent and blowfish.
- </p>
- <p class='done'>
- Decide which flavor of LGPL to use: LGPLv2+, LGPLv3+, or dual
- license LGPLv3+ and GPLv2. Leaning towards the simplest option, LGPLv2+.
+
+ <h1> Plan for the Nettle-2.5 release </h1>
+ <h2> RSA blinding </h2>
+ <p class='wish'>
+ Add tentative interface, as suggested by Nikos.
</p>
-
<h2> Documentation </h2>
- <p class='done'>
- Update documentation regarding license change and serpent
- copyrights.
+ <p class='should'>
+ Update documentation with info on Salsa20.
</p>
- <p class='done'>
+ <p class='should'>
Update NEWS file.
</p>
<h2> Bug fixes </h2>
<p class='done'>
- Fix the libdir defaults for linux x86_64 (I think the following
- should work in most cases for for both debian and fhs conventions:
- When building for $ABI (32 or 64), check if /usr/lib$ABI exists.
- If so, install there, otherwise in $prefix/lib. Possibly bail out
- with an error if neither /usr/lib32 nor /usr/lib64 exists).
+ Various w64 fixes, mostly by Martin Storsjö.
</p>
- <h2> Miscellaneous </h2>
- <p class='postponed'>
- Convert all files to utf-8.
+ <h2> Testing </h2>
+ <p> Since xenofarm isn't up and running, do some manual testing:
</p>
- <p class='postponed'>
+ <ul>
+ <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='should'> sparc32-solaris10</li>
+ <li class='should'> sparc64-solaris10</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h1> Plans for nettle-3.0 </h1>
+
+ <h2> Interface changes </h2>
+ <p class='should'>
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='postponed'>
- Migrate repository from <tt>cvs</tt> to <tt>git</tt> (or
- possibly <tt>hg</tt>).
+ <p class='should'>
+ For Merkle-Damgaard hash functions, separate the state and the
+ buffering. E.g., when using then for HMAC keyed "inner" and
+ "outer" states.
+ </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='should'>
+ Consider making a public interface similar to nettle_aead? With
+ the above change, it can't use nettle_crypt_func.
+ </p>
+ <p class='should'>
+ Reorganize private key operations. Need to support RSA with and
+ without blinding, and DSA occording to spec and some deterministic
+ variant (putty), and possibly also smartcard versions where the
+ private key is not available to the library. And without an
+ explosion of the number of functions.
</p>
</body>
</html>
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