Looking at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/plan.html, the most
important things are done. I think documentation is the only item left
which is both important and requires several hours of work.

* Versioned symbols. I think this is complete, I just have forgotten to
  merge that branch.

* Base64 with other alphabets. A patch was posted to the list some month
  ago, I had some comments, and then it seems to have stalled. If it's
  desirable to break the ABI to implement it, 3.1 may be the last chance
  for some years time.

* OCB mode. Is it a good idea to try to get this into the release? I
  don't think patents are a problem, but I've mailed sflc, and it would
  be nice to get their opinion too. Needs not just the code, but also
  test cases and documentation.

* Also OFB mode has been requested, used by openpgp, iirc.

Anything else I've missed? And which of the above items are important?

There are a lot of things that could be better optimized, including the
curve25519 code and the aesni code, but I don't think the release should
be delayed for that.

Regards,
/Niels

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