August 2010 Review

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Ok, to hopefully bring a bit of life to this list again, here's what
happened in August 2010:

 - Botan 1.8.10 (stable) was released on 2010-08-31:
   http://botan.randombit.net/download.html

   quoting its release log:
   - Switch default PKCS #8 encryption algorithm from 3DES to AES-256
   - Increase default hash iterations from 2048 to 10000 in PBES1 and
     PBES2
   - Use small tables in the first round of AES
   - Add PBKDF typedef and get_pbkdf for better compatability with 1.9
   - Add version of S2K::derive_key taking salt and iteration count
   - Enable the /proc-walking entropy source on NetBSD
   - Fix the doxygen makefile target

   prebuilt packages for Slackware 13.1 are available at
   http://mareichelt.de/pub/mine/slackware/builds/Botan/pkg/13.1/

 - Version 0.4.1 of loop-AES FAQ was released on 2010-08-14:
   (link in footer), #42 added:
   Temporary system freezes while writing to crypto partitions. What about =
it?


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loop-AES FAQ: http://mareichelt.de/pub/texts.loop-aes.php#faq
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