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+Thu Dec 20 16:52:37 2012  Martin Bosslet  <Martin.Bosslet@googlemail.com>
+
+	* NEWS: announce AEAD encryption support in the OpenSSL extension.
+
 Thu Dec 20 16:40:13 2012  NAKAMURA Usaku  <usa@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* gc.c (nonspecial_obj_id): VALUE is not compatible with Fixnum on
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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     is FIPS-enabled. OpenSSL.fips_mode= allows turning on and off FIPS mode
     manually in order to adapt to situations where FIPS mode would be an
     explicit requirement.
+  * Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) is supported via
+    Cipher#auth_data= and Cipher#auth_tag/Cipher#auth_tag=. 
+    Currently (OpenSSL 1.0.1c), only GCM mode is supported.
 
 * ostruct
   * new methods: