From 2ac57f2d12572309da82169b867339e144710100 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Waldmann Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 14:56:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] add condensed description of the changes in merge-all branch --- CHANGES-merge-all.txt | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 CHANGES-merge-all.txt diff --git a/CHANGES-merge-all.txt b/CHANGES-merge-all.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6824a783e --- /dev/null +++ b/CHANGES-merge-all.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Stuff in merge-all and not in merge minus minor changes: + +added tuning docs + +attic init --compression NN --cipher NN --mac NN ... +(see attic init --help) + +new hashes: sha512_256 + ghash (default) +new MACs: hmac-sha512-256 + gmac (default) +new ciphers: aes256-ctr + hmac-sha512-256 + aes256-gcm (default) +new compression: no compression (default) + zlib level 1..9 (previously, level 6 was hardcoded) + lzma preset 0..9 + +source: more flexible type 0x03 header format, allowing to give hash algo, +compression algo and level, encryption algo, key type. + +source: less hardcoding, numeric offsets / lengths +source: flexible hashing, compression, encryption, key dispatching +