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- From: weidai@eskimo.com (Wei Dai)
- Subject: ANNOUNCE: Crypto++ 2.0
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- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 19:23:52 GMT
-
- Crypto++ 2.0 has just been released. Please see the attached readme file
- for a description of Crypto++ and what's new in version 2.0. More
- details and download instructions can be found on my homepage at
- http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai.
-
- Wei Dai
-
-
-
- Crypto++: a C++ Class Library of Cryptographic Primitives
- Version 2.0 2/19/1996
-
- This library includes:
-
- MD5, MD5-MAC, SHA, HAVAL, DES, IDEA, WAKE, 3-WAY, TEA, SAFER,
- Blowfish, Diamond2, Diamond2 Lite, Sapphire, Luby-Rackoff, MDC,
- various modes (CFB, CBC, OFB, counter), DH, DSA, ElGamal, LUC,
- Rabin, BlumGoldwasser, elliptic curve cryptosystems, BBS, gzip
- compression, Shamir's secret sharing scheme, Rabin's information
- dispersal scheme, and zero-knowledge prover and verifier for
- graph isomorphism. There are also various miscellanous modules such
- as base 64 coding and 32-bit CRC.
-
- RSA and RC5 are noticeably absent. I am still talking to RSA
- DSI about adding them back into Crypto++. I hope version 2.1
- will include them.
-
- Crypto++ has been compiled and tested with Borland C++ 4.5, MSVC 4.0,
- and G++ 2.7.2 on MS-DOS, Windows NT, and a variety of Unix machines.
- You are welcome to use it for any purpose without paying me, but see
- license.txt for the fine print.
-
-
- Some short instructions to compile this library:
- (you probably need to modify this to suit your environment)
-
-
- -- if want to use this library with RSAREF, then
-
- 1. get a copy of RSAREF
-
- 2. untar or unzip it into a directory below this one
-
- 3. type "gcc -c -I. *.c" (in the rsaref/source directory) to compile RSAREF
-
- 4. edit config.h (make sure to #define USE_RSAREF)
-
- 5. type "g++ -c -Irsaref/source -I. *.cpp" to compile this library
-
- 6. type "g++ *.o rsaref/source/*.o -lstdc++ -lm" to link the test driver
-
- 7. type "a.out" to run the test driver
-
-
- -- if you DON'T want to use this library with RSAREF, then
-
- 1. edit config.h
-
- 2. type "g++ -c *.cpp" to compile this library
-
- 3. type "g++ *.o -lstdc++ -lm" to link the test driver
-
- 4. type "a.out" to run the test driver
-
-
- Finally, a note on object ownership: If a constructor for A takes
- a pointer to an object B (except primitive types such as int and char),
- then A owns B and will delete B at A's destruction. If a constructor
- for A takes a reference to an object B, then the caller retains ownership
- of B and should not destroy it until A no longer needs it.
-
- Good luck, and feel free to e-mail me at weidai@eskimo.com if you have
- any problems. Also, check http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai/cryptlib.html
- for updates and new versions.
-
- Wei Dai
-
- History
-
- 1.0 - First public release. Withdrawn at the request of RSA DSI.
- - Has a big bug in the RSA key generation code.
-
- 1.1 - Removed RSA, RC4, RC5
- - Disabled calls to RSAREF's non-public functions
- - Minor bugs fixed
-
- 2.0 - a completely new, faster multiprecision integer class
- - added MD5-MAC, HAVAL, 3-WAY, TEA, SAFER, LUC, Rabin, BlumGoldwasser,
- Elliptic Curve algorithms
- - added the Lucas strong probable primality test
- - ElGamal encryption and signature schemes modified to avoid weaknesses
- - Diamond changed to Diamond2 because of key schedule weakness
- - fixed bug in WAKE key setup
- - SHS class renamed to SHA
- - lots of miscellaneous optimizations
-
-