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+Version 0.8.0, 2002-04-24
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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+* Merged BigInt: many bugfixes and optimizations since alpha2
+* Added RSA (rsa.h)
+* Added EMSA2 (emsa2.h)
+* Lots of new interface code for public key algorithms (pk_base.h, pubkey.h)
+* Changed some interfaces, including SymmetricKey, to support the global rng
+* Fixed a serious bug in ManagedAllocator
+* Renamed RIPEMD128 to RIPEMD_128 and RIPEMD160 to RIPEMD_160
+* Removed some deprecated stuff
+* Added a global random number generator (rng.h)
+* Added clone functions to most of the basic algorithms
+* Added a library initializer class (init.h)
+* Version macros in version.h
+* Moved the base classes from opencl.h to base.h
+* Renamed the bzip2 module to comp_bzip2 and zlib to comp_zlib
+* Documentation updates for the new stuff (still incomplete)
+* Many new deprecated things: check doc/deprecated.txt
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