[beecrypt-announce] BeeCrypt updates in the CVS

[Bob D. <bo...@vi...>]

Dear subscribers,

I've just updated the SourceForge cvs tree with a prerelease of BeeCrypt=20
2.1.0 - some more testing and changes are expected to take place before i=
t's=20
rolled into a new release.

The main feature in this upcoming release is going to be the switch to us=
ing=20
automake and libtool for compiling the library. All reported bugs are fix=
ed=20
in the current tree. Thanks go to Marko Kreen, Steve O'Neill and Jon Stur=
geon.

More information on the changes is present in the NEWS file in the tree.

I've written Sparc v8 assembler multiplication routines (about 150% faste=
r)=20
and slightly improved the Sparc v9 multiplication routines (a few percent=
=20
faster) .

I'm currently working on 32-bit ARM routines (thanks to ARM Ltd. for dona=
ting=20
the ARM Architecture Reference Manual book) and have started on 64-bit=20
vectorized IA-64 routines - which may put it on par with Alpha processors=
, or=20
even beyond. Expect more news on this soon.

As always, your comments, remarks, bugs, etc. are welcome at=20
bee...@vi..., or in the appropriats SourceForge forums.

Sincerely,

Bob Deblier
Virtual Unlimited