GNU Libtasn1 4.0 released

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

Hello,
 I have just released libtasn1 4.0. This release adds new features and 
optimizations. The changes since the last release follow.

* Noteworthy changes in release 4.0 (released 2014-06-26) [stable]
- optimized asn1_der_decoding_startEnd(). It no longer requires the
  additional decoding step.
- asn1_read_value() understands the ?CURRENT keyword, which can be used
  to indicate the current element of a sequence, when the provided node
  is a sequence element.
- Several optimizations in DER decoding of structures with sequences
  containing many elements.
- asn1_der_decoding2() is introduced and allows flags to be passed on
  the decoding process. Currently only ASN1_DECODE_FLAG_ALLOW_PADDING is
  defined and that allows decoding DER structures that contain arbitrary
  data past their end. Contributed by Karel Slany.
- API and ABI changes since last version:
  ASN1_DECODE_FLAG_ALLOW_PADDING: New definition
  asn1_dup_node: New function
  asn1_der_decoding2: New function
  asn1_der_decoding_element: It is now an alias to asn1_der_decoding

GNU Libtasn1 is a standalone library written in C for manipulating ASN.1
objects including DER/BER encoding/decoding.  GNU Libtasn1 is used by
GnuTLS to handle X.509 structures and by GNU Shishi to handle Kerberos
V5 structures.

Homepage:
  https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/

Here are the compressed sources:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-4.0.tar.gz
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-4.0.tar.gz

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If you need help to use Libtasn1, or want to help others, you are
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All manuals are available from:
  https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/manual/

Direct links to the manual:
  HTML: https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/manual/libtasn1.html
  PDF: https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/manual/libtasn1.pdf

Direct links to the API Reference manual:
  HTML: https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/reference/
  PDF: https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/reference/libtasn1.pdf

The software is cryptographically signed by the author using an
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uid                  Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos <at>
gmail.com>
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regards,
Nikos