Crypto++ 5.5

Crypto++ project is a free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes.
Main features:
- a class hierarchy with an API defined by abstract base classes
- AES (Rijndael) and AES candidates: RC6, MARS, Twofish, Serpent, CAST-256
- other symmetric block ciphers: IDEA, DES, Triple-DES (DES-EDE2 and DES-EDE3), DESX (DES-XEX3), RC2, RC5, Blowfish, Diamond2, TEA, SAFER, 3-WAY, GOST, SHARK, CAST-128, Square, Skipjack, Camellia, SHACAL-2
- generic cipher modes: ECB, CBC, CBC ciphertext stealing (CTS), CFB, OFB, counter mode (CTR)
- stream ciphers: Panama, ARC4, SEAL, WAKE, WAKE-OFB, BlumBlumShub
- public-key cryptography: RSA, DSA, ElGamal, Nyberg-Rueppel (NR), Rabin, Rabin-Williams (RW), LUC, LUCELG, DLIES (variants of DHAES), ESIGN
- padding schemes for public-key systems: PKCS#1 v2.0, OAEP, PSS, PSSR, IEEE P1363 EMSA2 and EMSA5
- key agreement schemes: Diffie-Hellman (DH), Unified Diffie-Hellman (DH2), Menezes-Qu-Vanstone (MQV), LUCDIF, XTR-DH
- elliptic curve cryptography: ECDSA, ECNR, ECIES, ECDH, ECMQV
- one-way hash functions: SHA-1, MD2, MD4, MD5, HAVAL, RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-256, RIPEMD-160, RIPEMD-320, Tiger, SHA-2 (SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512), Panama, Whirlpool
- message authentication codes: MD5-MAC, HMAC, XOR-MAC, CBC-MAC, DMAC, Two-Track-MAC
- cipher constructions based on hash functions: Luby-Rackoff, MDC
- pseudo random number generators (PRNG): ANSI X9.17 appendix C, PGPs RandPool
- password based key derivation functions: PBKDF1 and PBKDF2 from PKCS #5
- Shamirs secret sharing scheme and Rabins information dispersal algorithm (IDA)
- DEFLATE (RFC 1951) compression/decompression with gzip (RFC 1952) and zlib (RFC 1950) format support
- fast multi-precision integer (bignum) and polynomial operations, with SSE2 optimizations for Pentium 4 processors, and support for 64-bit CPUs
- finite field arithmetics, including GF(p) and GF(2^n)
- prime number generation and verification
- various miscellaneous modules such as base 64 coding and 32-bit CRC
- class wrappers for these operating system features (optional):
- high resolution timers on Windows, Unix, and MacOS
- Berkeley and Windows style sockets
- Windows named pipes
- /dev/random and /dev/urandom on Linux and FreeBSD
- Microsofts CryptGenRandom on Windows
- A high level interface for most of the above, using a filter/pipeline metaphor
- benchmarks and validation testing
- FIPS 140-2 Validated
Enhancements:
- This release added VMAC and Sosemanuk, and improved the speed of several other algorithms using x86/x86-64/MMX/SSE2 assembly.
- Random number generators and DSA-like signature algorithms were modified to reduce the risk of reusing random numbers and IVs after virtual machine state rollback.