#14534: libgcrypt-1.9.0
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Reporter: pierre.labastie | Owner: blfs-book
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 10.1
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by pierre.labastie):
{{{
Noteworthy changes in Libgcrypt 1.9.0
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* New and extended interfaces:
- New curves Ed448, X448, and SM2.
- New cipher mode EAX.
- New cipher algo SM4.
- New hash algo SM3.
- New hash algo variants SHA512/224 and SHA512/256.
- New MAC algos for Blake-2 algorithms, the new SHA512 variants,
SM3, SM4 and for a GOST variant.
- New convenience function gcry_mpi_get_ui.
- gcry_sexp_extract_param understands new format specifiers to
directly store to integers and strings.
- New function gcry_ecc_mul_point and curve constants for Curve448
and Curve25519. [#4293]
- New function gcry_ecc_get_algo_keylen.
- New control code GCRYCTL_AUTO_EXPAND_SECMEM to allow growing the
secure memory area. Also in 1.8.2 as an undocumented feature.
* Performance:
- Optimized implementations for Aarch64.
- Faster implementations for Poly1305 and ChaCha. Also for
PowerPC. [b9a471ccf5,172ad09cbe,#4460]
- Optimized implementations of AES and SHA-256 on PowerPC.
[#4529,#4530]
- Improved use of AES-NI to speed up AES-XTS (6 times faster).
[a00c5b2988]
- Improved use of AES-NI for OCB. [eacbd59b13,e924ce456d]
- Speedup AES-XTS on ARMv8/CE (2.5 times faster). [93503c127a]
- New AVX and AVX2 implementations for Blake-2 (1.3/1.4 times
faster). [af7fc732f9, da58a62ac1]
- Use Intel SHA extension for SHA-1 and SHA-256 (4.0/3.7 times
faster). [d02958bd30, 0b3ec359e2]
- Use ARMv7/NEON accelerated GCM implementation (3 times faster).
[2445cf7431]
- Use of i386/SSSE3 for SHA-512 (4.5 times faster on Ryzen 7).
[b52dde8609]
- Use 64 bit ARMv8/CE PMULL for CRC (7 times faster). [14c8a593ed]
- Improve CAST5 (40% to 70% faster). [4ec566b368]
- Improve Blowfish (60% to 80% faster). [ced7508c85]
* Bug fixes:
- Fix infinite loop due to applications using fork the wrong
way. [#3491][also in 1.8.4]
- Fix possible leak of a few bits of secret primes to pageable
memory. [#3848][also in 1.8.4]
- Fix possible hang in the RNG (1.8.3 only). [#4034][also in 1.8.4]
- Several minor fixes. [#4102,#4208,#4209,#4210,#4211,#4212]
[also in 1.8.4]
- On Linux always make use of getrandom if possible and then use
its /dev/urandom behaviour. [#3894][also in 1.8.4]
- Use blinding for ECDSA signing to mitigate a novel side-channel
attack. [#4011,CVE-2018-0495] [also in 1.8.3, 1.7.10]
- Fix incorrect counter overflow handling for GCM when using an IV
size other than 96 bit. [#3764] [also in 1.8.3, 1.7.10]
- Fix incorrect output of AES-keywrap mode for in-place encryption
on some platforms. [also in 1.8.3, 1.7.10]
- Fix the gcry_mpi_ec_curve_point point validation function.
[also in 1.8.3, 1.7.10]
- Fix rare assertion failure in gcry_prime_check. [also in 1.8.3]
- Do not use /dev/srandom on OpenBSD. [also in 1.8.2]
- Fix test suite failure on systems with large pages. [#3351]
[also in 1.8.2]
- Fix test suite to not use mmap on Windows. [also in 1.8.2]
- Fix fatal out of secure memory status in the s-expression parser
on heavy loaded systems. [also in 1.8.2]
- Fix build problems on OpenIndiana et al. [#4818, also in 1.8.6]
- Fix GCM bug on arm64 which troubles for example OMEMO. [#4986,
also in 1.8.6]
- Detect a div-by-zero in a debug helper tool. [#4868, also in 1.8.6]
- Use a constant time mpi_inv and related changes. [#4869, partly
also in 1.8.6]
- Fix mpi_copy to correctly handle flags of opaque MPIs.
[also in 1.8.6]
- Fix mpi_cmp to consider +0 and -0 the same. [also in 1.8.6]
- Fix extra entropy collection via clock_gettime. Note that this
fallback code path is not used on any decent hardware. [#4966,
also in 1.8.7]
- Support opaque MPI with gcry_mpi_print. [#4872, also in 1.8.7]
- Allow for a Unicode random seed file on Windows. [#5098, also in
1.8.7]
* Other features:
- Add OIDs from RFC-8410 as aliases for Ed25519 and Curve25519.
[also in 1.8.6]
- Add mitigation against ECC timing attack CVE-2019-13626. [#4626]
- Internal cleanup of the ECC implementation.
- Support reading EC point in compressed format for some curves.
[#4951]
}}}
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