Noteworthy changes in version 1.7.0 (2016-04-15) [C21/A1/R0]
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* New algorithms and modes:
- SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512, and MD2 hash algorithms.
- SHAKE128 and SHAKE256 extendable-output hash algorithms.
- ChaCha20 stream cipher.
- Poly1305 message authentication algorithm
- ChaCha20-Poly1305 Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data
mode.
- OCB mode.
- HMAC-MD2 for use by legacy applications.
* New curves for ECC:
- Curve25519.
- sec256k1.
- GOST R 34.10-2001 and GOST R 34.10-2012.
* Performance:
- Improved performance of KDF functions.
- Assembler optimized implementations of Blowfish and Serpent on
ARM.
- Assembler optimized implementation of 3DES on x86.
- Improved AES using the SSSE3 based vector permutation method by
Mike Hamburg.
- AVX/BMI is used for SHA-1 and SHA-256 on x86. This is for SHA-1
about 20% faster than SSSE3 and more than 100% faster than the
generic C implementation.
- 40% speedup for SHA-512 and 72% for SHA-1 on ARM Cortex-A8.
- 60-90% speedup for Whirlpool on x86.
- 300% speedup for RIPE MD-160.
- Up to 11 times speedup for CRC functions on x86.
* Other features:
- Improved ECDSA and FIPS 186-4 compliance.
- Support for Montgomery curves.
- gcry_cipher_set_sbox to tweak S-boxes of the gost28147 cipher
algorithm.
- gcry_mpi_ec_sub to subtract two points on a curve.
- gcry_mpi_ec_decode_point to decode an MPI into a point object.
- Emulation for broken Whirlpool code prior to 1.6.0. [from 1.6.1]
- Flag "pkcs1-raw" to enable PCKS#1 padding with a user supplied
hash part.
- Parameter "saltlen" to set a non-default salt length for RSA PSS.
- A SP800-90A conforming DRNG replaces the former X9.31 alternative
random number generator.
- Map deprecated RSA algo number to the RSA algo number for better
backward compatibility. [from 1.6.2]
- Use ciphertext blinding for Elgamal decryption [CVE-2014-3591].
See http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/radioexp/ for details.
[from 1.6.3]
- Fixed data-dependent timing variations in modular exponentiation
[related to CVE-2015-0837, Last-Level Cache Side-Channel Attacks
are Practical]. [from 1.6.3]
- Flag "no-keytest" for ECC key generation. Due to a bug in
the parser that flag will also be accepted but ignored by older
version of Libgcrypt. [from 1.6.4]
- Speed up the random number generator by requiring less extra
seeding. [from 1.6.4]
- Always verify a created RSA signature to avoid private key leaks
due to hardware failures. [from 1.6.4]
- Mitigate side-channel attack on ECDH with Weierstrass curves
[CVE-2015-7511]. See http://www.cs.tau.ac.IL/~tromer/ecdh/ for
details. [from 1.6.5]
* Internal changes:
- Moved locking out to libgpg-error.
- Support of the SYSROOT envvar in the build system.
- Refactor some code.
- The availability of a 64 bit integer type is now mandatory.
* Bug fixes:
- Fixed message digest lookup by OID (regression in 1.6.0).
- Fixed a build problem on NetBSD
- Fixed memory leaks in ECC code.
- Fixed some asm build problems and feature detection bugs.
* Interface changes relative to the 1.6.0 release:
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gcry_cipher_final NEW macro.
GCRY_CIPHER_MODE_CFB8 NEW constant.
GCRY_CIPHER_MODE_OCB NEW.
GCRY_CIPHER_MODE_POLY1305 NEW.
gcry_cipher_set_sbox NEW macro.
gcry_mac_get_algo NEW.
GCRY_MAC_HMAC_MD2 NEW.
GCRY_MAC_HMAC_SHA3_224 NEW.
GCRY_MAC_HMAC_SHA3_256 NEW.
GCRY_MAC_HMAC_SHA3_384 NEW.
GCRY_MAC_HMAC_SHA3_512 NEW.
GCRY_MAC_POLY1305 NEW.
GCRY_MAC_POLY1305_AES NEW.
GCRY_MAC_POLY1305_CAMELLIA NEW.
GCRY_MAC_POLY1305_SEED NEW.
GCRY_MAC_POLY1305_SERPENT NEW.
GCRY_MAC_POLY1305_TWOFISH NEW.
gcry_md_extract NEW.
GCRY_MD_FLAG_BUGEMU1 NEW [from 1.6.1].
GCRY_MD_GOSTR3411_CP NEW.
GCRY_MD_SHA3_224 NEW.
GCRY_MD_SHA3_256 NEW.
GCRY_MD_SHA3_384 NEW.
GCRY_MD_SHA3_512 NEW.
GCRY_MD_SHAKE128 NEW.
GCRY_MD_SHAKE256 NEW.
gcry_mpi_ec_decode_point NEW.
gcry_mpi_ec_sub NEW.
GCRY_PK_EDDSA NEW constant.
GCRYCTL_GET_TAGLEN NEW.
GCRYCTL_SET_SBOX NEW.
GCRYCTL_SET_TAGLEN NEW.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.6.5 (2016-02-09) [C20/A0/R5]
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* Mitigate side-channel attack on ECDH with Weierstrass curves
[CVE-2015-7511]. See http://www.cs.tau.ac.IL/~tromer/ecdh/ for
details.
* Fix build problem on Solaris.
Problems found locating distfiles:
Package f-prot-antivirus6-fs-bin: missing distfile fp-NetBSD.x86.32-fs-6.2.3.tar.gz
Package f-prot-antivirus6-ws-bin: missing distfile fp-NetBSD.x86.32-ws-6.2.3.tar.gz
Package libidea: missing distfile libidea-0.8.2b.tar.gz
Package openssh: missing distfile openssh-7.1p1-hpn-20150822.diff.bz2
Package uvscan: missing distfile vlp4510e.tar.Z
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.6.4 (2015-09-08) [C20/A0/R4]
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* Speed up the random number generator by requiring less extra
seeding.
* New flag "no-keytest" for ECC key generation. Due to a bug in the
parser that flag will also be accepted but ignored by older version
of Libgcrypt.
* Always verify a created RSA signature to avoid private key leaks
due to hardware failures.
* Fix alignment bug in the AESNI code on Windows > 7.
* Support FreeBSD 10 and later.
* Other minor bug fixes.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.6.3 (2015-02-27) [C20/A0/R3]
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* Use ciphertext blinding for Elgamal decryption [CVE-2014-3591].
See http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/radioexp/ for details.
* Fixed data-dependent timing variations in modular exponentiation
[related to CVE-2015-0837, Last-Level Cache Side-Channel Attacks
are Practical].
* Improved asm support for older toolchains.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.6.2 (2014-08-21) [C20/A0/R2]
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* Map deprecated RSA algo number to the RSA algo number for better
backward compatibility.
* Support a 0x40 compression prefix for EdDSA.
* Improve ARM hardware feature detection and building.
* Fix powerpc-apple-darwin detection
* Fix building for the x32 ABI platform.
* Support building using the latest mingw-w64 toolchain.
* Fix some possible NULL deref bugs.
libgcrypt installs a library and 3 binaries, none of which are linked
against pthreads (on NetBSD 6). It installs one .h, which also does
not reference pthreads. However, it contains a comment that thread
callbacks were removed from libgcrypt as of 1.6. I rebuilt dirmngr,
glib-networking, gnupg2, libgnome-keyring, libksba, libotr, libxslt,
and pidgin-otr with the new version with no issues.
Note that I am not removing mk/pthread.buildlink3.mk from Makefile,
because it builds t-lock (used in make test but not installed) with
threads.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.6.1 (2014-01-29)
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* Added emulation for broken Whirlpool code prior to 1.6.0.
* Improved performance of KDF functions.
* Improved ECDSA compliance.
* Fixed locking for Windows and non-ELF Pthread systems (regression
in 1.6.0)
* Fixed message digest lookup by OID (regression in 1.6.0).
* Fixed a build problem on NetBSD.
* Fixed memory leaks in ECC code.
* Fixed some asm build problems and feature detection bugs.
* Interface changes relative to the 1.6.0 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
GCRY_MD_FLAG_BUGEMU1 NEW (minor API change).
expressions containing a '/' (divide) are problematic because according to
the SUN x86 Assembly Language Reference Manual, '/' should be treated as
starting comments.
To get over this, gas has '--divide' do not treat `/' as a comment character
Noteworthy changes in version 1.6.0 (2013-12-16)
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* Removed the long deprecated gcry_ac interface. Thus Libgcrypt is
not anymore ABI compatible to previous versions if they used the ac
interface.
* Removed the module register subsystem.
* The deprecated message digest debug macros have been removed. Use
gcry_md_debug instead.
* Removed deprecated control codes.
* Improved performance of most cipher algorithms as well as for the
SHA family of hash functions.
* Added support for the IDEA cipher algorithm.
* Added support for the Salsa20 and reduced Salsa20/12 stream ciphers.
* Added limited support for the GOST 28147-89 cipher algorithm.
* Added support for the GOST R 34.11-94 and R 34.11-2012 (Stribog)
hash algorithms.
* Added a random number generator to directly use the system's RNG.
Also added an interface to prefer the use of a specified RNG.
* Added support for the SCRYPT algorithm.
* Mitigated the Yarom/Falkner flush+reload side-channel attack on RSA
secret keys. See <http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/448> [CVE-2013-4242].
* Added support for Deterministic DSA as per RFC-6969.
* Added support for curve Ed25519.
* Added a scatter gather hash convenience function.
* Added several MPI amd SEXP helper functions.
* Added support for negative numbers to gcry_mpi_print,
gcry_mpi_aprint and gcry_mpi_scan.
* The algorithm ids GCRY_PK_ECDSA and GCRY_PK_ECDH are now
deprecated. Use GCRY_PK_ECC if you need an algorithm id.
* Changed gcry_pk_genkey for "ecc" to only include the curve name and
not the parameters. The flag "param" may be used to revert this.
* Added a feature to globally disable selected hardware features.
* Added debug helper functions.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.5.3 (2013-07-25)
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* Mitigate the Yarom/Falkner flush+reload side-channel attack on
RSA secret keys. See <http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/448>.
XXX: lots of patches without comments, and not upstreamed it seems.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.5.2 (2013-04-18)
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* Added support for IDEA.
* Made the Padlock code work again (regression since 1.5.0).
* Fixed alignment problems for Serpent.
* Fixed two bugs in ECC computations.
* New function gcry_kdf_derive implementing OpenPGP S2K algorithms
and PBKDF2.
* Support for WindowsCE.
* Support for ECDH.
* Support for OAEP and PSS methods as described by RFC-3447.
* Fixed PKCS v1.5 code to always return the leading zero.
* New format specifiers "%M" and "%u" for gcry_sexp_build.
* Support opaque MPIs with "%m" and "%M" in gcry_sexp_build.
* New functions gcry_pk_get_curve and gcry_pk_get_param to map ECC
parameters to a curve name and to retrieve parameter values.
* gcry_mpi_cmp applied to opaque values has a defined semantic now.
* Uses the Intel AES-NI instructions if available.
* The use of the deprecated Alternative Public Key Interface
(gcry_ac_*) will now print compile time warnings.
* The module register subsystem has been deprecated. This subsystem
is not flexible enough and would always require ABI changes to
extend the internal interfaces. It will eventually be removed.
Please contact us on the gcrypt-devel mailing list to discuss
whether you really need this feature or how it can be replaced by
an internal plugin mechanism.
* CTR mode may now be used with data chunks of arbitrary length.
* New variants of the TIGER algorithm.
* New cipher algorithm mode for AES-WRAP.
* Interface changes relative to the 1.4.2 release:
GCRY_MD_TIGER1 NEW.
GCRY_MD_TIGER2 NEW.
GCRY_CIPHER_MODE_AESWRAP NEW.
