Log message:
libgcrypt: update to 1.9.1.
Comment out some old workarounds for configure script/compiler issues,
and trust the upstream configure script again until proven wrong.
Remove hacks.mk, the grep does not match anything any longer.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.1 (2021-01-29) [C23/A3/R1]
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* Bug fixes:
- Fix exploitable bug in hash functions introduced with 1.9.0.
[#5275]
- Return an error if a negative MPI is used with sexp scan
functions. [#4964]
- Check for operational FIPS in the random and KDF functions.
[#5243]
- Fix compile error on ARMv7 with NEON disabled. [#5251]
- Fix self-test in KDF module. [#5254]
- Improve assembler checks for better LTO support. [#5255]
- Fix assember problem on macOS running on M1. [#5157]
- Support older macOS without posix_spawn. [#5159]
- Fix 32-bit cross build on x86. [#5257]
- Fix non-NEON ARM assembly implementation for SHA512. [#5263]
- Fix build problems with the cipher_bulk_ops_t typedef. [#5264]
- Fix Ed25519 private key handling for preceding ZEROs. [#5267]
- Fix overflow in modular inverse implementation. [#5269]
- Fix register access for AVX/AVX2 implementations of Blake2.
[#5271].
* Performance:
- Add optimized cipher and hash functions for s390x/zSeries.
- Use hardware bit counting functionx when available.
* Internal changes:
- The macOS getentropy syscall is used when available. [#5268]
- Update DSA functions to match FIPS 186-3. [30ed9593f6]
- New self-tests for CMACs and KDFs. [385a89e35b,7a0da24925]
- Add bulk cipher functions for OFB and GCM modes.
[f12b6788f2,f4e63e92dc]
Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5259
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Log message:
libgcrypt: update to 1.9.0.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.0 (2021-01-19) [C23/A3/R0]
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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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