NEWS for the 1.15 release

Added support for PKCS#1 style RSA signatures using SHA256, according to RFC 3447. Currently lacks interoperability testing.

Header files are now C++ aware, so C++ programs using Nettle should now use plain

#include <nettle/foo.h>

rather than

#extern "C" { #include <nettle/foo.h> }

as was the recommendation for the previous version. This breaks source-level compatibility with C++, even though there's full binary compatibility.

The file rfc1750.txt (which is considered non-free by debian) has been removed from the distribution. The file was used as input for the Yarrow testcase, and has been replaced by the short story "The Gold-bug" by Edgar Allan Poe. Anyway, RFC 1750 is obsoleted by RFC 4086.

Fixes for Darwin shared library support, contributed by Grant Robinsson.

Example programs now use a supplied getopt.c.

Configure tests for assemblers with a logarithmic .align directive.

The library is intended to be upwards binary compatible with earlier versions. The library name is libnettle.so.2.6, soname is still libnettle.so.2.

Available at

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-1.15.tar.gz ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/security/lsh/nettle-1.15.tar.gz

as usual.

Regards, /Niels