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Revision 1.21 - (show annotations)
Fri May 18 10:54:14 2001 UTC (22 years, 10 months ago) by nmav
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: mcrypt_2_4_13
Changes since 1.20: +2 -1 lines
updated api.

1 May 18th 2001: (version 2.4.13)
2 - Corrects behaviour when an older libltdl is found in the system.
3 - Updated mcrypt_mutex_register()
4
5 May 17th 2001: (version 2.4.12)
6 - Updated the libltdl library included
7 - Several fixes in modules
8 - Added scripts to allow easier and faster library version detection
9
10 March 18th 2001: (version 2.4.10)
11 - Corrected bugs in blowfish and blowfish-compat
12
13 January 23th 2001: (version 2.4.9-beta)
14 - Due to an endianness handling problem Blowfish algorithm was not compatible
15 with other implementations. Now it has been corrected. If you want
16 to access the old algorithm used use the "blowfish-compat" module.
17 - Fixes in mcrypt_list_algorithms() for some systems. Bugs pointed out by
18 Jonathan Woolmington <jwool@ind.tansu.com.au>
19 - Fixes in stream mode.
20 - mcrypt_generic_init() no longer fails if smaller key is used. It uses
21 the most appropriate key size of the algorithm and pads with zeros.
22 - Fixes in wake algorithm (and support for IV).
23 - IV is now used in arcfour (arcfour-iv is now longer used). Speedups in Arcfour.
24 - mcrypt_generic_deinit() function added.
25
26 January 1st 2001: (version 2.4.8)
27 - Corrected bug in rijndael-256 (reported by: Sami Farin <sfarin@ratol.fi>)
28 This makes the algorithm incompatible with previous versions.
29
30 October 20th 2000: (version 2.4.6)
31 - Compiles under win32 using cygwin (with -mno-cygwin)
32 - Added mcrypt_strerror()
33
34 September 18th 2000: (version 2.4.5)
35 - Updates in the documentation
36 - Libmcrypt can now be used without libltdl (in systems where libdl is present)
37 - Added the mcrypt_enc_set_state() function.
38 - Speedups in the blowfish algorithm
39
40 May 12th, 2000: (version 2.4.4)
41 - Added Panama algorithm
42
43 April 3rd, 2000: (version 2.4.2)
44 - Added missing symbols.
45
46 April 2nd, 2000: (version 2.4.1)
47 - Bugfixes
48 - Internal changes in mode modules
49 - Changes in the documentation
50
51 March 19th, 2000: (version 2.4.0)
52 - Corrected bugs in the extra algorithms.
53 - Libmcrypt is now thread safe without need for posix thread locks.
54 - Libmcrypt is no longer compatible with 2.2 or 2.3 version.
55 - Speedups in the library.
56 - The crypt algorithm has changed. In order for it's output to be compatible
57 with the unix crypt output, the key must be generated using crypt(3).
58 This was made in order to remove the key transformation, which was
59 included in the algorithm.
60 - The crypt algorithm was renamed to enigma.
61 - Changed many function's names in order to minimize namespace polution.
62 View the manpage for more information.
63
64 March 4th, 2000: (version 2.3.4)
65 - Improved POSIX Threads detection by Sascha Schumann
66 - Arcfour was renamed to arcfour-iv. The arcfour algorithm now does not
67 support iv (as the original algorithm does).
68 - Modes for block algorithms are not limited any more to a 256 bit block size.
69 - Mcrypt 2.2 compatibility functions were added.
70 - mcrypt_get_algo_key_size(), mcrypt_get_algo_block_size() functions
71 were added.
72
73 February 28th, 2000: (version 2.3.3)
74 - Some dlsyms were cached causing a 50% increase in speed.
75
76 February 27th, 2000:
77 - A slightly modified version of libmcrypt 2.2.4 was released in order
78 for mcrypt 2.5.0 to be able to compile against that series of libmcrypt.
79
80 February 22, 2000:
81 - mcrypt_is_block_algorithm_mode(), mcrypt_is_block_mode(),
82 mcrypt_is_block_algorithm(), functions were added.
83 - Bugfixes in the mcrypt_module_self_test().
84
85 February 8th, 2000:
86 - Keygen functionality was added to the cvs version of libmhash.
87 Libmcrypt seems to compile fine.
88
89 January 21st, 2000:
90 - Locks were added to libltdl calls so libmcrypt is still thread safe.
91
92 January 20th, 2000: (version 2.3.0)
93 - Tried to include libltdl. Not succesful yet. It compiles but it does
94 not work.
95 - keygen functionality was removed. It will be added to libmhash
96 http://schumann.cx/mhash
97
98 January 13th, 2000:
99 - Changed the sha-1 algorithm implementation
100 - mcrypt_get_iv_size now calls the specified mode, not the algorithm
101 - arcfour was added.
102
103 December 12th, 1999:
104 - Included patches by Steve Underwood, to allow an arbitary number of
105 streams of encryption.
106 - Thread locking was changed, in order to allow multiple encryption, and avoid
107 dead locks.
108
109 December 10th, 1999:
110 - Wake algorithm now supports IV.
111
112 December 4th, 1999:
113 - Changes in modules/modes in order to be thread-safe.
114
115 December 2nd, 1999:
116 - Bug fixes in the panama and xtea algorithms.
117 - The version of the module now can be checked at run-time (check mcrypt.h)
118
119 November 30th, 1999:
120 - Corrections in the panama algorithm, in order to work fine in big-endian
121 machines.
122
123 November 29th, 1999:
124 - encrypt() function crypt.c was renamed to __encrypt() in order to compile
125 in some systems.
126 - version number is included in the modules.
127 - mcrypt_list_algorithms(), mcrypt_list_modes() and mcrypt_list_keygen() now
128 check if the file is an mcrypt module (has the _mcrypt_xxx_version function).
129
130 November 28th, 1999:
131 - MARS was added (as a separate module)
132
133 November 26th, 1999:
134 - mcrypt_perror(int) function was added. It prints the text of an mcrypt
135 error code.
136 - Versioning has been changed. The release is no longer included in the library
137 name.
138 - Documentation was updated.
139
140 November 25th, 1999:
141 - crypt() and setkey() functions for enigma, were renamed to __crypt() and
142 __setkey() to keep some libcs happy.
143 - Corrected typo mistakes in twofish.c.
144 - Patched wake.c to work in bigendian machines.
145 - IDEA, RC4, RC6 which were non-free now are in a separate distribution.
146
147 November 24th, 1999:
148 - sdes key generation module was corrected. Now it works fine with
149 des(1).
150
151 November 20th, 1999:
152 - Mcrypt is now modular. Modes, algorithm, and key generation modules, can
153 be loaded dynamically.
154
155 November 17th, 1999:
156 - PANAMA stream algorithm was added (experimental).
157 - WAKE stream algorithm was added (experimental).
158
159 November 13th, 1999:
160 - Blowfish algorithm was changed, it is now compatible with other implementations.
161 - Accessing algorithms is now different. You do not specify TWOFISH_256, to
162 access TWOFISH algorithm with 256 bit key, but TWOFISH with keylength of
163 32 bytes (==256 bits). This is more flexible than the previous API since
164 you can access more keys.
165
166 October 16th, 1999:
167 - The new API is completed.
168 - STREAM mode was added.
169 - RC4 was added.
170
171 October 15th, 1999:
172 - libmcrypt is maintained using CVS.
173 - Major changes in the internal of the library. Much cleaner code.
174
175 October 14th, 1999:
176 - Serpent was added.
177
178 October 10th, 1999:
179 - Bugfix in sha1.
180
181 October 4th, 1999:
182 - Bugfixes in rc2 and rc6.
183 - rijndael implementation by Mike Scott was added.
184
185 September 29th, 1999:
186 - Minor bugfixes and optimization in the library. Now it uses less memory.
187
188 September 20th, 1999:
189 - Fixes in RC2, RC6 and SAFER+ code, so they work the same way in
190 big-endian and little-endian machines.
191 - Porting of SERPENT, MARS and RIJNDAEL is not ready, they do
192 not work right in bigendian machines.
193 - Bugfixes in the tests. Tests failed if one or two algorithms failed.
194
195 September 19th, 1999
196 - SERPENT was added in 128,192,256 key modes.
197
198 September 15th, 1999
199 - MARS and RIJNDAEL were added in 128,192,256 key modes.
200 - RC6 was splitted to RC6_128, RC6_192 and RC6_256 (the old RC6 is equal to RC6_256)
201 - RC2 was splitted to RC2_128, RC2_256 and RC2_1024 (the old RC2 is equal to RC2_1024)
202
203 September 14th, 1999
204 - Twofish code was changed. Now it uses Dr Brian Gladman's code.
205 - RC2 code was changed.
206
207 June 26th, 1999
208 - buffer overflow fixed in lib/mcrypt.c. Pointed out by Don Sutherland <dss@yadda.net>
209
210 June 23th, 1999
211 - RC2 code was cleared.
212 - RC6 was changed according to the specification. It is RC6 32/20/32.
213 RC6, SAFER+, LOKI97 and CAST-256 codes are actually Dr Brian Gladman's
214 code a bit modified for mcrypt.
215 - shared library version has changed (at last!)
216
217 June 22th, 1999
218 - SAFER+, LOKI97 and CAST-256 Added.
219
220 June 15th, 1999 - Version 2.2
221 - Changes in the xTEA algorithm. Some extra parenthesis made the algorithm
222 differ from the specification. Pointed out by Lars Nordentoft
223 <lntech@post9.tele.dk>. Read the README.xtea for more information.
224
225 June 12th, 1999 - Version 2.1.1
226 - Changes in the documentation which was inaccurate.
227
228 June 11th, 1999 - Version 2.1
229 - _mcrypt_ was placed as a prefix to all internal functions so they
230 do not pollute namespace.
231
232 May 29th, 1999
233 - test suites added
234 - Blowfish was divided to blowfish-448, -256, -192, -128.
235 - CBC can now accept IV
236 - mlock and munlock is used before mallocing and freeing any memory,
237 thus if such capabilities exist the library guarrantees that no
238 password is written in the disk (as swap etc.)
239 - gen_key_md5() was added and gen_key() was renamed to gen_key_sha1()
240 gen_key() is still defined to be gen_keysha1().
241
242 May 26th, 1999 - Version 2.0
243 - Documentation was incorrect and innacurate. Corrected.
244 - A #define WORDS_BIGENDIAN 0 was removed from acconfig.h, this
245 was confusing all the library headers, and thus the library was
246 useless.
247 - nbit-ofb mode added. n is the blocksize of the algorithm. Still
248 experimental.
249
250 May 24th, 1999 - Version 1.93
251 - defined get_block_size to be mcrypt_get_block_size so php3.0.8 compiles ok
252
253 May 17th, 1999 - Version 1.9
254 - gen_key() changed
255 - libtool support (based on Sascha Schumann's patches)

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