Hello Niels, Niels Möller <ni...@lysator.liu.se> writes:
> I'm thinking about Nettle releases. I think it would be nice to get out > a maintenance 3.10 release before summer vacations. (current NEWS file > at https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/-/blob/master/NEWS is fairly > accurate). That would be awesome. > After that, there are two different directions: > > * Try to clean up some of the API issues. This will break the API > (and like for previous changes, it could make sense to add > foo-compat.h include files that supports old API, to make it easy to > upgrade an application to work with the new nettle version, while > incrementally adjusting to the new api). It may also break > ABI and imply an soname change, or we could keep old symbols > working for the case of old applications linking to new libnettle.so > (but not the other way round, as documented at > https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/nettle.html#Compatibility). > If we go this way, that would be a Nettle-4.0, and it would make sense > to me to try to get that done without much new features, and without > making it a huge long-term project. I have a bit of concern, if an application links to nettle, but also bundles some parts of it to support lower nettle versions, that would make it difficult to import the code[1] as it would require pulling in dependent files. That said, none of the issues marked as "API change" on the issue tracker looks too disruptive to me (maybe #2 and #5 are): https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/-/issues/?label_name%5B%5D=API%20change Do you have anything else in your mind? > * Focus on getting post-quantum algorithms into Nettle. From GnuTLS perspective, it would be helpful if there is support for at least one post-quantum KEM algorithm so it could make TLS handshake provide quantum safety and forward secrecy (with PSK). Signature algorithms could be done later. Regards, Footnotes: [1] https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/blob/master/devel/import-from-nettle.sh -- Daiki Ueno _______________________________________________ nettle-bugs mailing list -- nettle-bugs@lists.lysator.liu.se To unsubscribe send an email to nettle-bugs-le...@lists.lysator.liu.se
