-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi scrypt users and tarsnap alphatesters,
I've just uploaded a tarball which may be (modulo version number update) release 1.2.0 of my scrypt file encryption utility. I say "may be" because there have been a lot of updates to the code since I released version 1.1.6 over five years ago; so I'd like to have as many people as possible test it and make sure I didn't break anything horribly. I'm asking the tarsnap alphatest list to test scrypt too, because a lot of the changes in scrypt will be in the next tarsnap release -- so think of this as a head start on alphatesting the next version of tarsnap. As always, bug reports will receive bug bounties; no need to wait for the bug to appear in a tarsnap tarball. You can download the scrypt code at http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt-1.2.0a.tgz and the tarball has SHA256 hash 07af95d317fd37e5690757c492395f87e1a108cbe7a13c667fd287a067661327 . You can also see the tree from which I rolled this almost-release at https://github.com/Tarsnap/scrypt if you find it useful to crawl through VCS history. Significant changes since 1.1.6: * You can now specify "-" as the input file, meaning standard input. * Lots and lots of code reorganization. * scrypt now consults the hw.memsize sysctl on relevant platforms to figure out how much memory is available. (This should help on OS X.) * scrypt now detects and uses AESNI instructions for encryption/decryption. * scrypt now detects and uses SSE2 instructions automatically (and thus there is no longer an --enable-sse2 option to the configure script). It's the last two bits which I'd particularly like to have tested -- I'm using the same cpu feature support framework as spiped uses to handle AESNI, so I have some confidence in it, but more testing (particularly on old i386 systems which lack SSE2, or non-x86 platforms) would still be very helpful. Assuming nobody yells (or the yells are things I can fix quickly and easily) I'll roll the official scrypt 1.2.0 release a week from now and then move over to finalizing the next tarsnap release. - -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlWrVekACgkQOM7KaQxqam5QnQCgsOXVq2IgIjyyB8z4k8oFKESG M6sAn0ZdKniC930mtrx32V+X+WqdrMA+ =nGLz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
