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Please test: scrypt 1.2.99.1



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Hi scrypt users and tarsnap alphatesters,

I've just uploaded a tarball which may be (modulo version number update)
release 1.3.0 of my scrypt file encryption utility.  This changes a few
things since the "1.2.99" tarball I announced here about six weeks ago:

* When estimating the amount of available RAM, scrypt no longer considers
the RLIMIT_DATA value on systems which have mmap.  RLIMIT_DATA represents
a limit on the memory available via sbrk, which was historically used by
malloc, and as such used to be a reasonable indication of the amount of
available memory; but newer systems have stopped using sbrk and have values
of RLIMIT_DATA which are no longer meaningful.

* A new command "scrypt info encfile" prints information about an encrypted
file without decrypting it.

You can download the scrypt code at
  https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt-1.2.99.1.tgz
and the tarball has SHA256 hash
  371d885c41e4d50c6865e752baa8a9b8dbe87223e5589fceb80d36d4ffe32e22
.  You can also see the tree from which I rolled this almost-release at
https://github.com/Tarsnap/scrypt if you find it useful to crawl through
VCS history.

Assuming nobody yells (or the yells are things I can fix quickly and easily)
I'll roll the official scrypt 1.3.0 release some time around the end of this
month.

- -- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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