2.4
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* Python 3 support! (Thorsten E. Behrens, Anders Sundman)
PyCrypto now supports every version of Python from 2.1 through 3.2.
* Timing-attack countermeasures in _fastmath: When built against
libgmp version 5 or later, we use mpz_powm_sec instead of mpz_powm.
This should prevent the timing attack described by Geremy Condra at
PyCon 2011:
http://blip.tv/pycon-us-videos-2009-2010-2011/pycon-2011-through-the-side-channel-timing-and-implementation-attacks-in-python-4897955
* New hash modules (for Python >= 2.5 only): SHA224, SHA384, and
SHA512 (Frédéric Bertolus)
* Configuration using GNU autoconf. This should help fix a bunch of
build issues.
* Support using MPIR as an alternative to GMP.
* Improve the test command in setup.py, by allowing tests to be
performed on a single sub-package or module only. (Legrandin)
You can now do something like this:
python setup.py test -m Hash.SHA256 --skip-slow-tests
* Fix double-decref of "counter" when Cipher object initialisation
fails (Ryan Kelly)
* Apply patches from Debian's python-crypto 2.3-3 package (Jan
Dittberner, Sebastian Ramacher):
- fix-RSA-generate-exception.patch
- epydoc-exclude-introspect.patch
- no-usr-local.patch
* Fix launchpad bug #702835: "Import key code is not compatible with
GMP library" (Legrandin)
* More tests, better documentation, various bugfixes.
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