August 2010 Review | |
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Ok, to hopefully bring a bit of life to this list again, here's what
happened in August 2010:
- Botan 1.8.10 (stable) was released on 2010-08-31:
http://botan.randombit.net/download.html
quoting its release log:
- Switch default PKCS #8 encryption algorithm from 3DES to AES-256
- Increase default hash iterations from 2048 to 10000 in PBES1 and
PBES2
- Use small tables in the first round of AES
- Add PBKDF typedef and get_pbkdf for better compatability with 1.9
- Add version of S2K::derive_key taking salt and iteration count
- Enable the /proc-walking entropy source on NetBSD
- Fix the doxygen makefile target
prebuilt packages for Slackware 13.1 are available at
http://mareichelt.de/pub/mine/slackware/builds/Botan/pkg/13.1/
- Version 0.4.1 of loop-AES FAQ was released on 2010-08-14:
(link in footer), #42 added:
Temporary system freezes while writing to crypto partitions. What about it?
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