wNAFs use does not bring that much performance on Sparcs (where

[openssl.git] / CHANGES

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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
          *) applies to 0.9.6a/0.9.6b/0.9.6c and 0.9.7
          +) applies to 0.9.7 only
 
+  +) Use wNAFs in EC_POINTs_mul() for improved efficiency
+     (up to about 10% better than before for P-192 and P-224).
+     [Bodo Moeller]
+
   -) [In 0.9.6c-engine release:]
      Add support for Broadcom crypto accelerator cards, backported
      from 0.9.7.
@@ -254,11 +258,12 @@
      "Douglas E. Engert" <deengert@anl.gov>.
      [Lutz Jaenicke]
 
-  ?) Add support for shared libraries for Unixware-7 and support including
-     shared libraries for OpenUNIX-8 (Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>).
+  +) Add support for shared libraries for Unixware-7
+     (Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>).
      [Lutz Jaenicke]
 
-  -) OpenUNIX-8 support (Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>)
+  *) Add OpenUNIX-8 support including shared libraries
+     (Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>).
      [Lutz Jaenicke]
 
   *) Improve RSA_padding_check_PKCS1_OAEP() check again to avoid
@@ -942,9 +947,12 @@ des-cbc           3624.96k     5258.21k     5530.91k     5624.30k     5628.26k
      don't write to the wrong index in ERR_set_error_data.
      [Bodo Moeller]
 
-  +) Function EC_POINTs_mul for simultaneous scalar multiplication
-     of an arbitrary number of elliptic curve points, optionally
-     including the generator defined for the EC_GROUP.
+  +) Function EC_POINTs_mul for multiple scalar multiplication
+     of an arbitrary number of elliptic curve points
+          \sum scalars[i]*points[i],
+     optionally including the generator defined for the EC_GROUP:
+          scalar*generator +  \sum scalars[i]*points[i].
+
      EC_POINT_mul is a simple wrapper function for the typical case
      that the point list has just one item (besides the optional
      generator).
@@ -1905,14 +1913,14 @@ des-cbc           3624.96k     5258.21k     5530.91k     5624.30k     5628.26k
      identity, and test if they are actually available.
      [Richard Levitte]
 
-  +) Add support for shared libraries under Irix.
+  *) Add support for shared libraries under Irix.
      [Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>]
 
   +) Improve RPM specification file by forcing symbolic linking and making
      sure the installed documentation is also owned by root.root.
      [Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>]
 
-  +) Add configuration option to build on Linux on both big-endian and
+  *) Add configuration option to build on Linux on both big-endian and
      little-endian MIPS.
      [Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>]
 
@@ -1942,7 +1950,7 @@ des-cbc           3624.96k     5258.21k     5530.91k     5624.30k     5628.26k
   +) Support threads on FreeBSD-elf in Configure.
      [Richard Levitte]
 
-  +) Add the possibility to create shared libraries on HP-UX
+  *) Add the possibility to create shared libraries on HP-UX
      [Richard Levitte]
 
   +) Fix for SHA1 assembly problem with MASM: it produces