Botan 1.9.10

Botan 1.9.10 is a convenient and flexible BSD-licensed crypto library for C++ that provides applications with the ability to use a number of cryptographic algorithms, as well as SSL/TLS, X.509 certificates and CRLs, PKCS #10 certificate requests, a filter/pipe message processing system, and a wide variety of other features.

The API reference, tutorial, and examples may help impart the flavor of the library. If these whet your appetite, perhaps give the latest release a try?

The core of botan is written in portable C++98 with no dependencies besides the STL and the rest of the ISO standard library, but the library also includes optional modules which make further assumptions about their environment, providing features such as compression (using zlib or bzip2), entropy gathering, and secure memory allocation.

Assembly implementations of key algorithms like SHA-1 and multiple precision integer routines for x86 and x86-64 processors are also included.

Botan runs on most common operating systems and can be used with a number of different commercial and open source compilers. The build log contains information about recently tested targets.

Enhancements:

• Add a constant time AES implementation using SSSE3
• Add support for loading new Engines at runtime
• Use GCC byteswap intrinsics where possible
• Drop support for building with Python 2.4
• Fix benchmarking of block ciphers in ECB mode
• Consolidate the two x86 assembly engines
• Rename S2K to PBKDF