A change in 1.10.2 accidentally broke ABI compatibility with
1.10.1 and earlier versions, causing programs compiled against
1.10.1 to crash if linked with 1.10.2 at runtime.
Recent versions of OpenSSL include extra information in ECC
private keys, the presence of which caused an exception when
such a key was loaded by botan. The decoding of ECC private
keys has been changed to ignore these fields if they are set.
from Brad
Botan is a crypto library written in C++. It provides a variety of
cryptographic algorithms, including common ones such as AES, MD5, SHA,
HMAC, RSA, Diffie-Hellman, DSA, and ECDSA, as well as many others that
are more obscure or specialized. It also offers X.509v3 certificates
and CRLs, and PKCS #10 certificate requests. A message processing
system that uses a filter/pipeline metaphor allows for many common
cryptographic tasks to be completed with just a few lines of code.
Assembly optimizations for common CPUs, including x86, x86-64, and
PowerPC, offers further speedups for critical tasks such as SHA-1
hashing and multiple precision integer operations.
from brad
tested by aja@ and me@
ok aja@
