Package: nettle Severity: wishlist Hi! Version 2.2 has been released, and is now completely licensed under LGPLv2+. Could you package it?
Btw, if you need any help with packaging, I'd be happy to work on it and provide patches to bring it up to 2.2 /Simon ni...@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes: > I'm happy to announce a new version of GNU Nettle, a low-level > cryptographic library. Unlike earlier releases, nettle is now licenced > under the LGPL, rather then the GPL. The nettle home page can be found > at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/ > > NEWS for the 2.2 release > > Licensing change: > > * Relicensed as LGPL v2.1 or later (user's option). > > * Replaced blowfish and serpent implementation. New code is > based on the LGPLed code in libgcrypt. > > New features: > > * Support for Galois/Counter Mode (GCM). > > * New interface for enumerating (most) available algorithms, > contributed by Daniel Kahn Gillmor. > > * New tool nettle-hash. Can generate hash digests using any > supported hash function, with output compatible with md5sum > and friends from GNU coreutils. Checking (like md5sum -c) > not yet implemented. > > Bug fixes: > > * The old serpent code had a byte order bug (introduced by > yours truly about ten years ago). New serpent implementation > does not interoperate with earlier versions of nettle. > > * Fixed ABI-dependent libdir default for Linux-based systems > which do not follow the Linux File Hierarchy Standard, e.g., > Debian GNU/Linux. > > Optimizations: > > * x86_64 implemention of serpent. > > * x86_64 implemention of camellia. > > * Optimized memxor using word rather than byte operations. > Both generic C and x86_64 assembler. > > * Eliminated a memcpy for in-place CBC decrypt. > > Miscellaneous: > > * In command line tools, no longer support -? for requesting > help, since using it without shell quoting is a dangerous > habit. Use long option --help instead. > > The shared library names are libnettle.so.4.1 and > libhogweed.so.2.1, with sonames libnettle.so.4 and > libhogweed.so.2. > > Available at > > http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-2.2.tar.gz > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-2.2.tar.gz > > Happy hacking, > /Niels Möller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
