X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.ru/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fnews.texi;h=5a6db8f5113d93524668df0fae901f1c9ff612d7;hb=fa2fbe9b374fe5ac0949291e11b2a6bc5b4b53cd;hp=195673066d58143ba802834900c0add6f356b7ec;hpb=b334da057831b4983da52b1dfa6787f2426fffee;p=govpn.git diff --git a/doc/news.texi b/doc/news.texi index 1956730..5a6db8f 100644 --- a/doc/news.texi +++ b/doc/news.texi @@ -3,6 +3,51 @@ 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. Previous versions are not compatible with it! +@item Ability to use TUN-interfaces under GNU/Linux. FreeBSD has already +supported them without any modifications. +@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, but +BLAKE2b-MAC instead. Encryptionless mode now really does not depend on +encryption functions. +@end itemize + @node Release 5.7 @section Release 5.7 @itemize