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Version 0.8.6, 2002-07-25
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* Added EMSA4 (aka PSS)
* Brought the manual up to date; many corrections and additions
* Added a parallel hash function construction
* Lookup supports all available algorithms now
* Lazy initialization of the lookup tables
* Made more discrete logarithm groups available through get_dl_group()
* StreamCipher_Filter supports seeking (if the underlying cipher does)
* Minor optimization for GCD calculations
* Renamed SAFER_SK128 to SAFER_SK
* Removed many previously deprecated functions
* Some now-obsolete functions, headers, and types have been deprecated
* Fixed some bugs in DSA prime generation
* DL_Group had a constructor for DSA-style prime gen but it wasn't defined
* Reversed the ordering of the two arguments to SEAL's constructor
* Fixed a threading problem in the PK algorithms
* Fixed a minor memory leak in lookup.cpp
* Fixed pk_types.h (it was broken in 0.8.5)
* Made validation tests more verbose
* Updated the check and example applications