What's New

Version 1.3, released February 1st, 2008

• Added Message Authentication (CMAC and HMAC) components.
• The ConvertPassword function has been extended to fully comply with PKCS #5.
• New encoding functions added: EncodeBlock/DecodeBlock and EncodeUtf8String/DecodeUtf8String.
• Dynamic loading made faster.
• New helper classes: Crc32 and MpInt.
• New interface IComponentState.
• IEncryptor and Encrypted Storage now use HMAC for computing critical checksums (full backward compatibility maintained).

Version 1.2, released December 12th, 2007

• Added: Visual Tour with a number of demo applications.
• IEncryptedDirectory.Encrypt renamed to Store and IEncryptedDirectory.Decrypt renamed to Extract to make the method names consistent with non-encrypting file agents (like zip).
• GetRandomIV is now obsolete (use GetRandomVector instead).
• Pseudo RNG has been completely rewritten to comply with the revised NIST Special Publication 800-90.
• Several changes in True RNG to improve the quality of generated random data.

Version 1.1, released October 15th, 2007

• New ciphers: DES and 3-DES.
• New hash functions: HAVAL and RIPEMD-128/160.
• Multi-threaded components: Cipher*Mt, CompressorZipMt, and Hash*Mt.
• EncodeString and DecodeString functions.

Version 1.0, released September 14th, 2007

• First commercial release.