History

v0.5.7: (December 2020)

Update README to reflect changes to SKS keyserver.
Improve consistency of styling in README and installation guide.
Make README reference correct tag names.

v0.5.6: (February 2017)

Switch to using /dev/urandom.
Fix memory lock error condition handling.
Fix missing intialize buffer.
More documentation / comment improvements.
Add newline after reading secret so first share isn't placed after the prompt.

v0.5.5: (February 2016)

Fix build for picky compilers. (Not relevant to clang, maybe relevant to gcc?)
Documentation / source comment improvements.
Fix domain name for keyserver in readme.

v0.5.4: (October 2013)

Minor Makefile fix.
Add newlines to option display.

v0.5.3: (April 2013)

Corrected an error in the docs.
Converted changelog to Markdown.

v0.5.2: (April 2013)

Add finer-grained build tasks (make compile, and make doc).
Add make install task.
Update installation instructions to have some general advice for normal Unix-users, and to be more up to date for OS X users.

v0.5.1: (December 2011)

Incorporate B. Poettering's compilation fix, via ifdef. Set USE_RESTORE_SECRET_WORKAROUND if you encounter an error about the definition of "restore_secret".
Added "-M" option to require a memory lock.

v0.5: (January 2006)

introduction of memory locking and tty echo suppression
a buffer overflow was fixed. It seems to be exploitable.

v0.4: (October 2005)

the security level now can be chosen freely in the range 8..1024 bits in steps of 8.

v0.3: (July 2005)

separation of ssss into ssss-split and ssss-combine
introduction of a man page

v0.2: (June 2005)

introduction of the diffusion layer

v0.1: (May 2005)

initial release