1 catacomb (2.5.0) experimental; urgency=medium
3 * catacomb: MACs based on blockciphers: PMAC1 and CMAC (also known as
5 * catacomb: Authenticated Encryption with Additional Data (AEAD)
6 schemes. Some based on blockciphers: CCM, EAX, GCM (with CPU-specific
7 acceleration), OCB1 and OCB3 (OCB2 is broken). Also Salsa20 and
8 ChaCha20 with Poly1305: the RFC7539 scheme, and the NaCl `secret_box'
10 * catacomb: Implement Grantham's Frobenius test. Combine it with
11 Rabin--Miller, as Baillie--PSW, for testing given primes.
12 * catacomb-bin (catcrypt): Support AEAD schemes for bulk crypto.
13 * catacomb-bin (perftest): Options for batching; report cycle counts
15 * Many internal improvements: better documentation, debugging, testing,
18 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Sat, 21 Sep 2019 21:26:44 +0100
20 catacomb (2.4.4) experimental; urgency=medium
22 * debian: Bump to Debhelper 10.
23 * debian: Ship a shared-library `symbols' file for more precise
26 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Sun, 29 Sep 2019 15:58:26 +0100
28 catacomb (2.4.3) experimental; urgency=medium
30 * catacomb (idea): Fix key-length descriptor.
31 * catacomb (xchachaNN): Fix nonce-size descriptor.
32 * catacomb (key-management): Fix incorrect handling of keyring
34 * catacomb-dev: Configure `pkg-config' correctly for static linking.
35 * catacomb, catacomb-bin (cookie, dsig): Fix hash-function length
36 padding on very long messages, and handling of large datestamps.
37 * catacomb-bin (catsign): Don't open temporary files unnecessarily.
38 * catacomb-bin (catcrypt): Fix key-attribute parsing.
39 * catacomb-bin (perftest): Add missing help-string text for `-n' used
42 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Sat, 21 Sep 2019 17:43:59 +0100
44 catacomb (2.4.2) experimental; urgency=medium
46 * catacomb2: Support multi-arch at last.
47 * catacomb2: Fix mangled key-size data for HMAC.
48 * rspit: Support generating large files.
49 * pixie: Improve error-handling around dropping privilege.
50 * ed25519, ed448: Very minor performance improvement.
51 * salsa20, chacha: Fix crash if nonce is none, as it is when invoked by
53 * salsa20, chacha: Fix declaration of cipher classes to prevent them
54 ending up as (useless) common symbols in client code.
55 * limlee: Improve the prime size heuristics.
56 * sha, sha256, sha512: Restructure compression function to improve
57 performance and use less memory.
58 * rijndael: Include enough round constants to make very tiny keys work
61 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Tue, 12 Jun 2018 01:15:59 +0100
63 catacomb (2.4.1) experimental; urgency=low
65 * catacomb2: Two's-complement fix from 2.3.x release branch.
67 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Thu, 22 Jun 2017 09:37:40 +0100
69 catacomb (2.4.0.1) experimental; urgency=low
71 * Fix build failure with later ARM assemblers.
73 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Sun, 14 May 2017 21:05:35 +0100
75 catacomb (2.4.0) experimental; urgency=low
77 * catacomb2: Implemented Bernstein's Poly1305 message-authentication
79 * catacomb2: Support RFC7539's different nonce/counter split in ChaCha
81 * catacomb2: Implement Bernstein's X25519.
82 * catacomb2: Implement Hamburg's X448 (RFC7748).
83 * catacomb2: Implement Bernstein, Duif, Lange, Schwabe, Yang's Ed25519,
84 as defined in RFC8032.
85 * catacomb2: Implement Ed448, based on Hamburg's curve, as defined in
87 * catacomb2: Implement Keccak-p[1600, n] as defined in FIPS202.
88 * catacomb2: Implement SHA3, SHAKE, as defined in FIPS202.
89 * catacomb2: Implement cSHAKE, KMAC, as defined in SP800-185.
90 * catacomb2: Allow RSA key generation with chosen public exponent.
91 * catacomb2: Optimize RSA public-key operations with common public
93 * catacomb-bin: Support new algorithms in the provided tools.
94 * catacomb-bin: Allow parameters keys for all key types.
96 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Sun, 14 May 2017 16:07:00 +0100
98 catacomb (2.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
100 * catacomb2: Fix bignum loading and storing in two's complement form.
102 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Thu, 22 Jun 2017 09:34:59 +0100
104 catacomb (2.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
106 * catacomb2: Fix memory corruption when allocating `salsa20' and
108 * catacomb2: Fix segfault when opening read-only keyring with no
110 * catacomb2: Return the correct stream offset in `chacha_tell*'.
111 * catacomb2: Produce correct keyring files when they contain empty
113 * catacomb2: Fix cross-compilation-unit type incompatibility in prime
114 and binary group implementations.
115 * catacomb-dev: Add missing licence notices to `salsa20.h'.
116 * catacomb-bin: Fix assertion failure in RSA-PSS signing.
117 * catacomb-bin: Fix uninitialized structure slot in RSA-PSS signing and
119 * catacomb-bin: Compare MAC tags in constant time.
120 * catacomb2: Fix a (minor) source of bias in BBS and RSA key generation.
122 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Sun, 14 May 2017 04:05:00 +0100
124 catacomb (2.3.0.1) experimental; urgency=low
126 * catacomb2: Actually make the stack non-executable rather than just
129 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Wed, 05 Apr 2017 09:00:55 +0100
131 catacomb (2.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
133 * catacomb2: Use the correct Oakley 2048 group. For a long time, this
134 was a duplicate of the Oakley 1536 group. There's a compatibility
135 break here, but it's for the best.
136 * catacomb2: Include `.note.GNU-stack' sections in the assembler code,
137 so that the process stack doesn't get marked executable.
138 * catacomb2: New SSE2-based multipliers for i386 and AMD64.
139 * catacomb2: Lots of other improvements to the assembler code.
141 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Mon, 03 Apr 2017 10:24:17 +0100
143 catacomb (2.2.5) experimental; urgency=low
145 * catacomb2 (ARM AES): Fix crash from `rijndael*_init' when key material
147 * build: Use less obsolete macro names in configure script.
149 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Tue, 12 Jul 2016 10:27:05 +0100
151 catacomb (2.2.4) experimental; urgency=low
153 * build: Fix build failures on post-wheezy Debian versions.
154 * catacomb2: Use ARM AES instructions if available. (But they can't be
155 assembled using wheezy's version of gas, so this doesn't work in the
157 * catacomb2: Fix poor performance (and wrong answers for very small
158 numbers) in prime generation.
159 * catacomb2: Return numbers of exactly the requested length in prime and
160 public-key generation. The `strongprime' and `limlee' algorithms have
161 changed as a result; previously verifiable parameters generated using
162 this algorithm won't be verifiable any more.
163 * catacomb-dev: Deprecate the old `dsa' functions. Use `gdsa' instead.
165 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Sun, 26 Jun 2016 14:18:14 +0100
167 catacomb (2.2.3) experimental; urgency=low
169 * rand: Make the main generator resiliant in the face of fork(2).
170 * rand: Introduce `rand_quick', which may also mix in CPU-level
172 * rand: Use higher-resolution timer in the quick-win noise source.
173 * debian: Pick up correct `catacomb-dev' Depends entry from 2.2.1.1
174 which got lost down the side of the sofas.
176 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Mon, 13 Jun 2016 22:22:33 +0100
178 catacomb (2.2.2) experimental; urgency=low
180 * build: Cope with newer Autotools and related equipment.
181 * Miscellaneous small fixes for Cygwin.
182 * catacomb2 (mp_testbit): Fix overread on reading one-bit-past-the-end;
183 particularly, this causes a segfault reading bit zero of a zero-length
186 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Sat, 04 Jun 2016 01:12:01 +0100
188 catacomb (2.2.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
190 * Arrange that catacomb-dev Depends on correct version of mlib-dev. It
191 really won't work well without it.
193 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Fri, 19 Feb 2016 09:04:50 +0000
195 catacomb (2.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
197 * Some internal improvements.
198 * Debian packaging cleanups (fix build-depends, update mLib dependency).
200 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 16:43:09 +0000
202 catacomb (2.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
204 * catacomb2: Fix rsa_recover crash on even modulus.
205 * catacomb-bin: Report error taking factorial of negative input.
206 * catacomb2: Fix EC_FIND and EC_NEG on 2-torsion points of prime curves.
207 * catacomb-dev: Support multiple flavours of EC point compression.
208 * catacomb2: Fix theoretical rsa_recover crash if factoring loop runs
209 out of prime numbers.
210 * catacomb2: Overhaul crypto primitives used in true-random generator.
211 * catacomb-bin: Improve rspit: high-resolution timing, and 64-bit size
213 * catacomb-dev: New conversions between MP integers and C integer types.
214 * catacomb2: Change gcipher for Seal incompatibly. The IV is now
215 big-endian bytes (rather than `uint32'), and the `block size' is 4.
216 * catacomb2: Mix a constant string into DSA nonce generation to improve
217 resistance to protocol interference.
218 * catacomb2: Fix the freewheel random source, which hasn't been enabled
219 for ages due to a configure-script bug.
220 * catacomb-bin: The key tool can now read and write multiple
221 presentations for key fingerprints.
222 * catacomb2, catacomb-dev: Support Daniel Bernstein's Salsa20 and ChaCha
225 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:15:31 +0100
227 catacomb (2.1.7) experimental; urgency=low
229 * A number of entropy-source fixes.
231 * Add more elliptic curves, from Brainpool and BADA55.
232 * hashsum: Fix hash file verification.
234 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:21:23 +0100
236 catacomb (2.1.6.1) experimental; urgency=low
238 * Fix building from source tarball.
239 * Fix building with Python 2.5.
241 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Sat, 28 Dec 2013 14:21:36 +0000
243 catacomb (2.1.6) experimental; urgency=low
245 * mpreduce: Extend domain to all positive integers.
246 * gfreduce: Fix out-of-bounds memory access.
247 * gcd: Don't clobber signs of `constants' when GCD calculation is trivial.
248 * pixie: Don't replace existing pixie unless explicitly requested.
250 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Fri, 27 Dec 2013 14:28:57 +0000
252 catacomb (2.1.5) experimental; urgency=low
256 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Mon, 29 Jun 2013 00:38:58 +0100
258 catacomb (2.1.4) experimental; urgency=low
260 * Constant-time operations.
261 * Some minor fixes to header files.
263 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Mon, 27 May 2013 22:34:23 +0100
265 catacomb (2.1.3) experimental; urgency=low
267 * Fibonacci sequence computation: mp_fibonacci function and fibonacci(1)
269 * Upper bounds on phrase entropy in mkphrase(1).
270 * Don't make the Pixie setuid-root by default. Make the documentation
273 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:06:28 +0100
275 catacomb (2.1.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
277 * hashsum: Document `--progress' option in `--help' output.
279 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:35:49 +0000
281 catacomb (2.1.2) experimental; urgency=low
283 * hashsum: Correct return code when running in `-c' mode.
284 * dsig: Fix core dump on large-ish outputs.
285 * dsig: Fix repeat-close bug.
286 * dsig: Accept precomputed hashes when making signatures.
287 * Utilities: New `-p' option for progress bars.
288 * dsig, hashsum: New `-j' option checks for files not covered by
290 * Various library improvements.
292 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 03:26:44 +0000
294 catacomb (2.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
296 * Do configuration through pkgconfig.
298 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:36:30 +0000
300 catacomb (2.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
302 * Added support for elliptic curves, on both prime and binary fields
303 (polynomial basis only). No actual crypto, but there's enough already
304 to do ECDH and stuff on well-known curves Testing is currently a bit
307 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@nsict.org> Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:47:56 +0000
309 catacomb (2.0.1) experimental; urgency=low
312 * (pixie): Don't report uninteresting errors when accepting connections.
314 -- Mark Wooding <mdw@nsict.org> Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:47:59 +0000