X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.ru/?p=govpn.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fnews.texi;h=10a2aab6d134519e72530c49d4fb0f33d7dff6e0;hp=70e5051cf21a1b84b2a6c447467078b1186c4dad;hb=0bf04621961589bc735dc8bd8a075d7db24c4178;hpb=b97d37d9494cf064a50d30b4936393eeab32b0e1 diff --git a/doc/news.texi b/doc/news.texi index 70e5051..10a2aab 100644 --- a/doc/news.texi +++ b/doc/news.texi @@ -3,15 +3,47 @@ See also this page @ref{Новости, on russian}. +@node Release 7.0 +@section Release 7.0 +@itemize +@item (X)Salsa20 is replaced with ChaCha20. Theoretically it should be +faster and more secure. +@end itemize + +@node Release 6.0 +@section Release 6.0 +@itemize +@item Argon2d is replaced with Balloon hashing. Found Argon2 libraries +written on pure Go have various problems. Moreover Argon2i should be +used instead, but it has some possible +@url{http://eprint.iacr.org/2016/027, cryptographic defects}. So it is +replaced with much more simpler (and seems even cryptographically +better) @url{https://crypto.stanford.edu/balloon/, Balloon hashing}. +@end itemize + +@node Release 5.10 +@section Release 5.10 +@itemize +@item @option{-version} option added, printing program version. +@end itemize + +@node Release 5.9 +@section Release 5.9 +@itemize +@item Client reconnects in the loop when connection is lost. Optionally +you can disable that behaviour: client will exit immediately, as it +previously did. +@end itemize + @node Release 5.8 @section Release 5.8 @itemize @item Optional ability to use syslog for logging, with @url{https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424, RFC 5424}-like structured records. -@item XTEA algorithm is not used anymore for nonce obfuscation. -BLAKE2-MAC is used instead. Encryptionless mode now really does not -depend on encryption functions. +@item XTEA algorithm is not used anymore for nonce obfuscation, but +BLAKE2b-MAC instead. Encryptionless mode now really does not depend on +encryption functions. @end itemize @node Release 5.7