There have been lot of smaller and larger changes since the previous release half a year ago, so I've decided to package up the current code as a release. There's also one new section in the manual, describing DSA.

NEWS for the 1.7 release

Implemented DSA.

Renamed RSA functions for consistency. Now it's rsa_public_key_init, not rsa_init_public_key, etc.

Both RSA and DSA now have sign/verify functions that take the hash digest as argument.

A rewritten and much more powerful sexp-conv program.

Other changes to the sexp code, in particular updating it to the latest SPKI draft.

Building nettle as a shared library (ELF only) seems to work. The version number is increased, so the library "soname" for this release is "libnettle.so.1".

Bugfixes. Fixes for build and portability problems.

Available at

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-1.7.tar.gz ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/security/lsh/nettle-1.7.tar.gz

Regards, /Niels