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| author | Jack Lloyd <[email protected]> | 2015-10-15 10:07:36 -0400 |
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| committer | Jack Lloyd <[email protected]> | 2015-10-15 10:07:36 -0400 |
| commit | 3181dfa7abfe7b623d8823e078f04a374775e978 (patch) | |
| tree | 892045bf1538463ebd4b586f0414b44d2335e044 /doc/news.rst | |
| parent | 83fe87cc13b4dd6285fbc15465c7bd39fdadb53d (diff) | |
Periodically reinitialize the blinding sequence instead of always
deriving it by squaring the previous value.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/news.rst | 18 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/news.rst b/doc/news.rst index e1ee423f8..cae2270bd 100644 --- a/doc/news.rst +++ b/doc/news.rst @@ -4,11 +4,21 @@ Release Notes Version 1.11.22, Not Yet Released ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -* Public key operations can now be used with specified providers - by passing an additional parameter to the constructor of - the PK operation. +* Public key operations can now be used with specified providers by passing an + additional parameter to the constructor of the PK operation. -* OpenSSL RSA provider now supports signatures and verification. +* OpenSSL RSA provider now supports signature creation and verification. + +* The blinding code used for RSA, Diffie-Hellman, ElGamal and Rabin-Williams now + periodically reinitializes the sequence of blinding values instead of always + deriving the next value by squaring the previous ones. The reinitializion + interval can be controlled by + +* Add System_RNG type. Previously the global system RNG was only accessible via + `system_rng` which returned a reference to the object. However is at times + useful to have a unique_ptr<RandomNumberGenerator> which will be either the + system RNG or an AutoSeeded_RNG, depending on availability, which this + additional type allows. * The `configure.py` option `--no-autoload` is now also available under the more understandable name `--minimized-build`. |