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- NEWS
- ====
- This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL
- release. For more details please read the CHANGES file.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8ze and OpenSSL 0.9.8zf [under development]
- o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286)
- o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287)
- o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289)
- o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293)
- o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209)
- o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288)
- o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8zd and OpenSSL 0.9.8ze [15 Jan 2015]
- o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8zc and OpenSSL 0.9.8zd [8 Jan 2015]
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
- o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
- o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8zb and OpenSSL 0.9.8zc [15 Oct 2014]:
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
- o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8za and OpenSSL 0.9.8zb [6 Aug 2014]:
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
- Known issues in OpenSSL 0.9.8za:
- o Compilation failure of s3_pkt.c on some platforms due to missing
- <limits.h> include. Fixed in 0.9.8zb-dev.
- o FIPS capable link failure with missing symbol BN_consttime_swap.
- Fixed in 0.9.8zb-dev. Workaround is to compile with no-ec: the EC
- algorithms are not FIPS approved in OpenSSL 0.9.8 anyway.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8y and OpenSSL 0.9.8za [5 Jun 2014]:
- o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
- o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
- o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
- o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
- o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
- o Fix to TLS alert handling.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8x and OpenSSL 0.9.8y [5 Feb 2013]:
- o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
- o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8w and OpenSSL 0.9.8x [10 May 2012]:
- o Fix DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8v and OpenSSL 0.9.8w [23 Apr 2012]:
- o Fix for CVE-2012-2131 (corrected fix for 0.9.8 and CVE-2012-2110)
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8u and OpenSSL 0.9.8v [19 Apr 2012]:
- o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8t and OpenSSL 0.9.8u [12 Mar 2012]:
- o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
- o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
- o Various DTLS fixes.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8s and OpenSSL 0.9.8t [18 Jan 2012]:
- o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8r and OpenSSL 0.9.8s [4 Jan 2012]:
- o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
- o Fix policy check double free error CVE-2011-4109
- o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
- o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
- o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8q and OpenSSL 0.9.8r [8 Feb 2011]:
- o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 0.9.8q [2 Dec 2010]:
- o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
- o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8o and OpenSSL 0.9.8p [16 Nov 2010]:
- o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 0.9.8o [1 Jun 2010]:
- o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-0742.
- o Various DTLS fixes.
- o Recognise SHA2 certificates if only SSL algorithms added.
- o Fix for no-rc4 compilation.
- o Chil ENGINE unload workaround.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
- o CFB cipher definition fixes.
- o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
- o Cipher definition fixes.
- o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
- o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
- o SPKAC handling fixes.
- o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
- o Compression memory leak fixed.
- o Compression session resumption fixed.
- o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
- o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
- o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
- o Fix various build issues.
- o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
- o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
- o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
- o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
- o Various precautionary measures.
- o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
- o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
- o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
- o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
- o Add gcc 4.2 support.
- o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization
- for VC++ build.
- o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
- selected at compile time.
- o DTLS improvements.
- o RFC4507bis support.
- o TLS Extensions support.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
- o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
- o RFC3779 support.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
- o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
- o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
- o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
- o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
- o New cipher Camellia
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
- o Cipher string fixes.
- o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
- o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
- o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
- o Zlib compression usage fixes.
- o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
- o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
- o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
- o Extended Windows CE support
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
- o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
- make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
- is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
- o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
- curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
- o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
- the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
- o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
- configuration file.
- o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
- o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
- o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
- programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
- Makefile.shared.
- o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
- o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
- automatically from specifically given directories.
- o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
- o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
- o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
- mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
- function and an argument.
- o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
- o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
- Nehemiah processors.
- o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
- See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
- o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
- constraints and name constraints.
- o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
- configuration file.
- o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
- in the 'openssl ca' index file.
- o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
- 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
- o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
- 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
- o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
- o New BUF functions.
- o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
- sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
- private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
- This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing
- OpenSSL.
- o New control functions for the error stack.
- o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
- processing.
- o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
- functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
- 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
- o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
- affected functions.
- o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
- o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
- o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation
- of X.509 path validation.
- o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
- AMD64.
- o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
- by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new
- argument form 'enable-xxx'.
- o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
- SHA-1.
- o Added support for DTLS.
- o New BIGNUM blinding.
- o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
- o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
- o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
- o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
- o Added initial support for Win64.
- o Added alternate pkg-config files.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
- o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
- o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
- o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
- o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
- o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
- o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
- o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
- o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
- o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
- o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
- o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
- o More compilation issues fixed.
- o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
- o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
- o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
- o More constification.
- o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
- o Several compilation issues fixed.
- o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
- o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
- o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
- o Performance improvements.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
- o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
- o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
- o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
- o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
- o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
- o Multiple X509 verification fixes
- o Speed up HMAC and other operations
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
- o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
- o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
- o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
- o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
- o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
- Bleichbacher's attack
- o Security: make RSA blinding default.
- o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
- o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
- o Build: shared library support fixes.
- o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
- o Documentation: fixes and additions.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
- o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
- o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
- o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
- o IA32 assembler enhancements.
- o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
- o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
- o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
- o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
- o New library section OCSP.
- o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
- o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
- o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
- o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
- o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
- o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer
- a separate distribution.
- o New elliptic curve library section.
- o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
- o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
- Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
- o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
- o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
- o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
- o Support for pkg-config.
- o Lots of new manuals.
- o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described
- functions.
- o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
- against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
- Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
- future).
- o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
- to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
- o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
- o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
- and help optimizers.
- o Finally remove references to RSAref.
- o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
- o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
- Processing, IBM 4758.
- o A few new engines added in the demos area.
- o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
- o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
- EGD style random sources at several locations.
- o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
- o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
- o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
- Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
- o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
- o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
- o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
- o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
- o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
- o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
- Bleichbacher's attack
- o Security: make RSA blinding default.
- o Build: shared library support fixes.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
- o Important security related bugfixes.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
- o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
- o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
- o Better handling of SSL session caching.
- o Better comparison of distinguished names.
- o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
- o Support assembler code with Borland C.
- o Fixes for length problems.
- o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
- o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
- o Fixes for smaller building problems.
- o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
- o Important building fixes on Unix.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
- o Various important bugfixes.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
- o Important security related bugfixes.
- o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
- o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
- o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
- o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
- o BIGNUM library fixes.
- o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
- o Object identifiers corrected and added.
- o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
- o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
- MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
- o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
- Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
- [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
- o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
- o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
- o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
- attack.
- o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
- o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
- o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
- o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
- o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
- o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
- o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
- o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
- o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
- o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
- o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
- environment variables when running as root.
- o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
- possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
- calculated signature.
- o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
- o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
- master secret in DH ciphersuites.
- o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
- o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
- des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
- o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
- o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
- memory checking routines.
- o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
- o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications.
- o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
- o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
- o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
- o More documentation.
- o New function BN_rand_range().
- o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
- o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
- o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
- o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
- o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
- o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
- o MD4 now included.
- o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
- o Support for external crypto devices [1].
- o Enhanced EVP interface.
- [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate
- distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
- o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
- o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
- o Support of Linux/IA64
- o Assembler support for Mingw32
- o New 'rand' application
- o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
- o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
- o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
- o Automation of 'req' application
- o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
- o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
- o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions
- o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
- o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
- o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
- o Usable certificate chain verification
- o Certificate purpose checking
- o Certificate trust settings
- o Support of authority information access extension
- o Extensions in certificate requests
- o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
- o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
- o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
- o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
- o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
- record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
- data
- o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
- o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
- o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
- RSA functionality
- o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
- via a per-thread stack
- o PRNG robustness improved
- o EGD support
- o BIGNUM library bug fixes
- o Faster DSA parameter generation
- o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux
- o Experimental MacOS support
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
- o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
- by several software packages and are more secure than the standard
- form
- o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
- o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
- o Avoid various memory leaks
- o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
- must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
- o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
- o RSA OEAP related fixes
- o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
- o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
- o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
- o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
- extension support
- o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
- o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
- o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
- o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
- o Option to disable selected ciphers
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
- o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
- o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
- o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
- o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
- o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
- o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
- o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
- o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
- o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
- o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
- o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
- o Overhauled Win32 builds
- o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
- o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
- o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
- o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
- o Overhauled Perl interface
- o Lots of source tree cleanups.
- o Lots of memory leak fixes.
- o Lots of bug fixes.
- Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
- o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
- o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
- o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
- o Extended Big Number (BN) library
- o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
- o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
- o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
- o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
- o Support for various new platforms
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