ANNOUNCE: Nettle-3.6

[Niels Möller]

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I'm happy to announce a new release of GNU Nettle, a low-level
cryptographics library. This version includes several new features, and
a couple of bug fixes, see NEWS entries below.

The Nettle home page can be found at
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/, and the manual at
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/nettle.html.

The release can be downloaded from

  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.6.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.6.tar.gz
  https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-3.6.tar.gz

Happy hacking,
/Niels Möller

NEWS for the Nettle 3.6 release

        This release adds a couple of new features, most notable being
        support for ED448 signatures.

        It is not binary compatible with earlier releases. The shared
        library names are libnettle.so.8.0 and libhogweed.so.6.0, with
        sonames nibnettle.so.8 and libhogweed.so.6. The changed
        sonames are mainly to avoid upgrade problems with recent
        GnuTLS versions, that depend on Nettle internals outside of
        the advertised ABI. But also because of the removal of
        internal poly1305 functions which were undocumented but
        declared in an installed header file, see Interface changes
        below.

        New features:

        * Support for Curve448 and ED448 signatures. Contributed by
          Daiki Ueno.

        * Support for SHAKE256 (SHA3 variant with arbitrary output
          size). Contributed by Daiki Ueno.

        * Support for SIV-CMAC (Synthetic Initialization Vector) mode,
          contributed by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos.

        * Support for CMAC64, contributed by Dmitry Baryshkov.

        * Support for the "CryptoPro" variant of the GOST hash
          function, as gosthash94cp. Contributed by Dmitry Baryshkov.

        * Support for GOST DSA signatures, including GOST curves
          gc256b and gc512a. Contributed by Dmitry Baryshkov.

        * Support for Intel CET in x86 and x86_64 assembly files, if
          enabled via CFLAGS (gcc --fcf-protection=full). Contributed
          by H.J. Lu and Simo Sorce.

        * A few new functions to improve support for the Chacha
          variant with 96-bit nonce and 32-bit block counter (the
          existing functions use nonce and counter of 64-bit each),
          and functions to set the counter. Contributed by Daiki Ueno.

        * New interface, struct nettle_mac, for MAC (message
          authentication code) algorithms. This abstraction is only
          for MACs that don't require a per-message nonce. For HMAC,
          the key size is fixed, and equal the digest size of the
          underlying hash function.

        Bug fixes:

        * Fix bug in cfb8_decrypt. Previously, the IV was not updated
          correctly in the case of input data shorter than the block
          size. Reported by Stephan Mueller, fixed by Daiki Ueno.

        * Fix configure check for __builtin_bswap64, the incorrect
          check would result in link errors on platforms missing this
          function. Patch contributed by George Koehler.

        * All use of old-fashioned suffix rules in the Makefiles have
          been replaced with %-pattern rules. Nettle's use of suffix
          rules in earlier versions depended on undocumented GNU make
          behavior, which is being deprecated in GNU make 4.3.

          Building with other make programs than GNU make is untested
          and unsupported. (Building with BSD make or Solaris make
          used to work years ago, but has not been tested recently).

        Interface changes:

        * Declarations of internal poly1305.h functions have been
          removed from the header file poly1305.h, to make it clear
          that they are not part of the advertised API or ABI.

        Miscellaneous:

        * Building the public key support of nettle now requires GMP
          version 6.1.0 or later (unless --enable-mini-gmp is used).

        * A fair amount of changes to ECC internals, with a few
          deleted and a few new fields in the internal struct
          ecc_curve. Files and functions have been renamed to more
          consistently match the curve name, e.g., ecc-256.c has been
          renamed to ecc-secp256r1.c.

        * Documentation for chacha-poly1305 updated. It is no longer
          experimental. The implementation was updated to follow RFC
          8439 in Nettle-3.1, but that was not documented or announced
          at the time.

- -- 
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