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+Codecrypt ChangeLog
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+1.3
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+- fix too aggressive locking of keyring that caused deadlocks on piping
+- fix many warnings and code inconsistencies
+- correct licensing information from ccr --version
+- prevent possible problems with forged sencode
+- add this helpful changelog :)
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+1.2
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+- improve arcfour usage (much stuff is thus incompatible with older versions)
+- added a manual page
+- added H20 variants of FMTSeq (they provide more than 1M signatures)
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+1.1
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+- several speed improvements (colex ranking and MceQD decoding)
+- cleanup of some unneeded parts
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+1.0
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+- key naming fixes
+- add 2^192-secure algorithm variants
+- improve message padding for encryption (incompatible with previous format)
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+0.9
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+- first released version
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-	Codecrypt
-	the post-quantum cryptography tool
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