ANN: M2Crypto 0.16beta2

Heikki Toivonen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.cryptography
Message-ID <[email protected]>
This is the second beta of the M2Crypto 0.16 release.

Please give these bits a spin and report any problems. I will be making
new betas once a week (or more often if needed) until regressions are
fixed. I expect the final 0.16 bits will be out by the end of June 2006.

Fixed since beta1:
- Bug 6031, OpenSSL can be configured without EC so need to deal with it
gracefully, by Miloslav Trmac.

Highlights:
- All known memory leaks fixed
- All known regressions fixed
- Added --openssl option to build command which can be used to specify
  where OpenSSL is installed, by Matt Rodriguez
- ECDSA signatures and ECDH key agreement, requires OpenSSL 0.9.8+,
  by Arno Bakker
- Added sha224, sha256, sha384 and sha512, by Larry Bugbee
- Added serialNumber, SN, surname, GN and givenName fields to X509_Name,
  by Martin Paljak
- And various other improvements and bugfixes, see CHANGES file

Requirements:
  * Python 2.3 or newer
  * OpenSSL 0.9.7 or newer
    o Some optional new features will require OpenSSL 0.9.8 or newer
  * SWIG 1.3.24 or newer

Get it while it's hot from M2Crypto homepage:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/MeTooCrypto

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  Heikki Toivonen
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