Version 1.8.3, 2009-07-11
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* Add a new Python configuration script
* Add the Skein-512 SHA-3 candidate hash function
* Add the XTS block cipher mode from IEEE P1619
* Fix random_prime when generating a prime of less than 7 bits
* Improve handling of low-entropy situations during PRNG seeding
* Change random device polling to prefer /dev/urandom over /dev/random
* Use an input insensitive implementation of same_mem instead of memcmp
* Correct DataSource::discard_next to return the number of discarded bytes
* Provide a default value for AutoSeeded_RNG::reseed
* Fix Gentoo bug 272242