[Cryptopp-announce] Crypto++ 5.5 released and benchmarks updated

[Wei D. <we...@we...>]

Version 5.5 of Crypto++ has been released. You can download it from
http://www.cryptopp.com/. This version improved the speed of many 
algorithms, and updated benchmarks for the Intel Core 2, AMD Opteron, and 
Pentium 4 are available at http://www.cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html.

Below are the changes from version 5.4:

5.5 - added VMAC and Sosemanuk (with x86-64 and SSE2 assembly)
    - improved speed of integer arithmetic, AES, SHA-512, Tiger, Salsa20,
      Whirlpool, and PANAMA cipher using assembly (x86-64, MMX, SSE2)
    - optimized Camellia and added defense against timing attacks
    - updated benchmarks code to show cycles per byte and to time key/IV 
setup
    - started using OpenMP for increased multi-core speed
    - enabled GCC optimization flags by default in GNUmakefile
    - added blinding and computational error checking for RW signing
    - changed RandomPool, X917RNG, GetNextIV, DSA/NR/ECDSA/ECNR to reduce
      the risk of reusing random numbers and IVs after virtual machine state
      rollback
    - changed default FIPS mode RNG from AutoSeededX917RNG<DES_EDE3> to
      AutoSeededX917RNG<AES>
    - fixed PANAMA cipher interface to accept 256-bit key and 256-bit IV
    - moved MD2, MD4, MD5, PanamaHash, ARC4, WAKE_CFB into the namespace 
"Weak"
    - removed HAVAL, MD5-MAC, XMAC