22 May
2017
22 May
'17
7:17 a.m.
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 12:36 AM, Niels Möller nisse@lysator.liu.se wrote:
And regarding nettle-3.3, I guess it's time to try to formulate what the relase objectives should be.
- Fix the ABI problem (which unfortunately implies an abi break). Some progress, but I don't think I've published my wip branch.
I'd recommend against breaking the ABI. It would mean that any new additions would take significant time to be propagated into distributions. Is there a way to fix the issue by introducing new safe APIs?
- Get skein256 in (see skein branch), and possible skein512 too.
While interesting to have, is there any practical use of it?
regards, Nikos