Version 1.3.8, 2003-12-30
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* Initial introduction of engine support, which separates PK keys from
  the underlying operations. An engine using GNU MP was added.

* DSA, DH, NR, and ElGamal constructors accept taking just the private
  key again since the public key is easily derived from it.

* Montgomery reduction support was added.
* ElGamal keys now support being imported/exported as ASN.1 objects
* Added Montgomery reductions
* Added an engine that uses GNU MP (requires 4.1 or later)
* Removed the obsolete mp_gmp module
* Moved several initialization/shutdown functions to init.h
* Major refactoring of the memory containers
* New non-locking container, MemoryVector
* Fixed 64-bit problems in BigInt::set_bit/clear_bit
* Renamed PK_Key::check_params() to check_key()
* Some incompatible changes to OctetString
* Added version checking macros in version.h
* Removed the fips140 module pending rewrite
* Added some functions and hooks to help GUIs
* Moved more shared code into MDx_HashFunction
* Added a policy hook for specifying the encoding of X.509 strings