NEWS for the 1.8 release

New example programs, demonstrating encrypting and decrypting files using RSA, and random sessions keys for bulk encryption and message authentication.

Support for systems that don't have alloca. On such systems, some of Nettle's functions have arbitrary limits applied to their input.

Uses AX_CREATE_STDINT_H, to support systems without inttypes.h.

Support for the md2 and md4 hash functions. New name mangling, to reduce the risk of link collisions. All functions (except memxor) now use a nettle_ or _nettle_ prefix when seen by the linker. For most functions, the header file that declares a function also uses #define to provide a shorter more readable name without the prefix.

The shared library soname for this version is libnettle.so.2.

Happy hacking, /Niels Möller