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Revision 1.6 - (show annotations)
Wed Oct 25 18:43:11 2000 UTC (23 years, 5 months ago) by nmav
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.5: +1 -0 lines
added mcrypt_strerror()

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

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