I've made another release of GNU Nettle, a low-level cryptographics library, to fix bugs reported for Nettle 3.1.

The Nettle home page can be found at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/, and the manual at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/nettle.html.

NEWS for the Nettle 3.1.1 release

This release fixes a couple of non-critical bugs.

Bug fixes:

* By accident, nettle-3.1 disabled the assembly code for the secp_224r1 and secp_521r1 elliptic curves on all x86_64 configurations, making signature operations on those curves 10%-30% slower. This code is now re-enabled.

* The x86_64 assembly implementation of gcm hashing has been fixed to work with the Sun/Oracle assembler.

The shared library names are libnettle.so.6.1 and libhogweed.so.4.1, with sonames still libnettle.so.6 and libhogweed.so.4. It is intended to be fully binary compatible with nettle-3.1.

Available at:

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.1.1.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.1.1.tar.gz http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-3.1.1.tar.gz ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/security/lsh/nettle-3.1.1.tar.gz (soon)

Happy hacking, /Niels Möller