- New upstream release 2.4:
- Python 3 support! PyCrypto now supports every version of Python from 2.1
through to 3.2
- Timing-attack countermeasures in _fastmath: when built against libgmp
version 5 or later, we use mpz_powm_sec instead of mpz_powm, which should
prevent the timing attack described by Geremy Condra at PyCon 2011
- New hash modules (for Python ≥ 2.5 only): SHA224, SHA384 and SHA512
- Configuration using GNU autoconf, which should help fix a bunch of build
issues
- Support using MPIR as an alternative to GMP
- Improve the test command in setup.py, by allowing tests to be performed on
a single sub-package or module only
- Fix double-decref of "counter" when Cipher object initialization fails
- Apply patches from Debian's python-crypto 2.3-3 package:
- fix-RSA-generate-exception.patch
- epydoc-exclude-introspect.patch
- no-usr-local.patch
- Fix launchpad bug #702835: "Import key code is not compatible with GMP
library"
- More tests, better documentation, various bugfixes
- Update patch for imposing our own compiler optimization flags
- Drop lib64 patch, no longer needed
- No longer need to fix up permissions and remove shellbangs
Paul Howarth