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• Latest Draft Scalar Crypto Specification (v0.9.0)
• Stable
• What's next:Needs translation into Currently being translated to ASCIIDOC.
  • This work is documented in issue #89
  • Got a skeleton ASCIIDOC spec compiling and using the right styles.
  • Converting it section by section. Not converting things which might change in opcode review yet.
  • We will need to incorporate results of OpCode consistency review from Ken, once available
    • The opcode and consistency review dashboard is here.
    • Our ETA is currently May 15'th 2021.
  • See dev/next-release branch of our repo.
  • The new asciidoc spec will be released as a non-functional change to give people a chance to get used to the new layout.
• Some consistency review feedback which will be applied in subsequent functional releases:Roadmap:Next version will include any feedback from opcode consistency review, plus any small cleanups and editorial work.
  
  • aes32* and sm4* encodings will change to remove the `rt` field.
  • Change aes64ks1i "rcon" immediate to "rnum".
  • Remove packu[w] since they aren't needed for our usecase of packing bytes into words. We can use other pack instructions.
  • Break Zbk into smaller units: (Zbkc: clmul*, Zbkx: xperm.*, Zbkb: everything else)
  • Entropy source changes, including configurable access to the entropy source from S modev1.0.0 will be the public review version.

Encoding/OpCode consistency review

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