More BN_mod_... functions.

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  OpenSSL CHANGES
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  Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.7  [xx XXX 2000]
 
+  *) New function BN_swap.
+     [Bodo Moeller]
+
+  *) Use BN_nnmod instead of BN_mod in crypto/bn/bn_exp.c so that
+     the exponentiation functions are more likely to produce reasonable
+     results on negative inputs.
+     [Bodo Moeller]
+
+  *) Change BN_mod_mul so that the result is always non-negative.
+     Previously, it could be negative if one of the factors was negative;
+     I don't think anyone really wanted that behaviour.
+     [Bodo Moeller]
+
+  *) Move BN_mod_... functions into new file crypto/bn/bn_mod.c
+     (except for exponentation, which stays in crypto/bn/bn_exp.c,
+     and BN_mod_mul_reciprocal, which stays in crypto/bn/bn_recp.c)
+     and add new functions:
+
+          BN_nnmod
+          BN_mod_sqr
+          BN_mod_add
+          BN_mod_add_quick
+          BN_mod_sub
+          BN_mod_sub_quick
+          BN_mod_lshift1
+          BN_mod_lshift1_quick
+          BN_mod_lshift
+          BN_mod_lshift_quick
+
+     These functions always generate non-negative results.
+
+     BN_nnmod otherwise is like BN_mod (if BN_mod computes a remainder  r
+     such that  |m| < r < 0,  BN_nnmod will output  rem + |m|  instead).
+
+     BN_mod_XXX_quick(r, a, [b,] m) generates the same result as
+     BN_mod_XXX(r, a, [b,] m, ctx), but requires that  a  [and  b]
+     be reduced modulo  m.
+     [Lenka Fibikova <fibikova@exp-math.uni-essen.de>, Bodo Moeller]
+
+  *) Remove a few calls to bn_wexpand() in BN_sqr() (the one in there
+     was actually never needed) and in BN_mul().  The removal in BN_mul()
+     required a small change in bn_mul_part_recursive() and the addition
+     of the static functions bn_cmp_part_words(), bn_sub_part_words()
+     and bn_add_part_words() which do the same thing as bn_cmp_words(),
+     bn_sub_words() and bn_add_words() except they take arrays with
+     differing sizes.
+     [Richard Levitte]
+
+  *) In 'openssl passwd', verify passwords read from the terminal
+     unless the '-salt' option is used (which usually means that
+     verification would just waste user's time since the resulting
+     hash is going to be compared with some given password hash)
+     or the new '-noverify' option is used.
+
+     This is an incompatible change, but it does not affect
+     non-interactive use of 'openssl passwd' (passwords on the command
+     line, '-stdin' option, '-in ...' option) and thus should not
+     cause any problems.
+     [Bodo Moeller]
+
+  *) Remove all references to RSAref, since there's no more need for it.
+     [Richard Levitte]
+
+  *) Increase BN_CTX_NUM (the number of BIGNUMs in a BN_CTX) to 16.
+     The previous value, 12, was not always sufficient for BN_mod_exp().
+     [Bodo Moeller]
+
+  *) Make DSO load along a path given through an environment variable
+     (SHLIB_PATH) with shl_load().
+     [Richard Levitte]
+
+  *) Constify the ENGINE code as a result of BIGNUM constification.
+     Also constify the RSA code and most things related to it.  In a
+     few places, most notable in the depth of the ASN.1 code, ugly
+     casts back to non-const were required (to be solved at a later
+     time)
+     [Richard Levitte]
+
   *) Make it so the openssl application has all engines loaded by default.
      [Richard Levitte]