Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.7 [xx XXX 2001]
- Both OpenSSL 0.9.6a (bugfix release, 5 Apr 2001) and OpenSSL 0.9.7
- are based on OpenSSL 0.9.6.
+ OpenSSL 0.9.6a/0.9.6b (bugfix releases, 5 Apr 2001 and 9 July 2001)
+ and OpenSSL 0.9.7 were developped in parallel, based on OpenSSL 0.9.6.
+
Change log entries are tagged as follows:
- -) applies to 0.9.6a (/0.9.6b) only
- *) applies to 0.9.6a (/0.9.6b) and 0.9.7
+ -) applies to 0.9.6a/0.9.6b only
+ *) applies to 0.9.6a/0.9.6b and 0.9.7
+) applies to 0.9.7 only
- *) Change all calls to low level digest routines in the library and
+ -) OpenSSL 0.9.6b released [9 July 2001]
+
+ *) Change ssleay_rand_bytes (crypto/rand/md_rand.c)
+ to avoid a SSLeay/OpenSSL PRNG weakness pointed out by
+ Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen <markku-juhani.saarinen@nokia.com>:
+ PRNG state recovery was possible based on the output of
+ one PRNG request appropriately sized to gain knowledge on
+ 'md' followed by enough consecutive 1-byte PRNG requests
+ to traverse all of 'state'.
+
+ 1. When updating 'md_local' (the current thread's copy of 'md')
+ during PRNG output generation, hash all of the previous
+ 'md_local' value, not just the half used for PRNG output.
+
+ 2. Make the number of bytes from 'state' included into the hash
+ independent from the number of PRNG bytes requested.
+
+ The first measure alone would be sufficient to avoid
+ Markku-Juhani's attack. (Actually it had never occurred
+ to me that the half of 'md_local' used for chaining was the
+ half from which PRNG output bytes were taken -- I had always
+ assumed that the secret half would be used.) The second
+ measure makes sure that additional data from 'state' is never
+ mixed into 'md_local' in small portions; this heuristically
+ further strengthens the PRNG.
+ [Bodo Moeller]
+
+ +) Speed up EVP routines.
+ Before:
+encrypt
+type 8 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes
+des-cbc 4408.85k 5560.51k 5778.46k 5862.20k 5825.16k
+des-cbc 4389.55k 5571.17k 5792.23k 5846.91k 5832.11k
+des-cbc 4394.32k 5575.92k 5807.44k 5848.37k 5841.30k
+decrypt
+des-cbc 3482.66k 5069.49k 5496.39k 5614.16k 5639.28k
+des-cbc 3480.74k 5068.76k 5510.34k 5609.87k 5635.52k
+des-cbc 3483.72k 5067.62k 5504.60k 5708.01k 5724.80k
+ After:
+encrypt
+des-cbc 4660.16k 5650.19k 5807.19k 5827.13k 5783.32k
+decrypt
+des-cbc 3624.96k 5258.21k 5530.91k 5624.30k 5628.26k
+ [Ben Laurie]
+
+ *) Fix crypto/bn/asm/mips3.s.
+ [Andy Polyakov]
+
+ *) When only the key is given to "enc", the IV is undefined. Print out
+ an error message in this case.
+ [Lutz Jaenicke]
+
+ +) Added the OS2-EMX target.
+ ["Brian Havard" <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> and Richard Levitte]
+
+ +) Rewrite apps to use NCONF routines instead of the old CONF. New functions
+ to support NCONF routines in extension code. New function CONF_set_nconf()
+ to allow functions which take an NCONF to also handle the old LHASH
+ structure: this means that the old CONF compatible routines can be
+ retained (in particular wrt extensions) without having to duplicate the
+ code. New function X509V3_add_ext_nconf_sk to add extensions to a stack.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Handle special case when X509_NAME is empty in X509 printing routines.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) In dsa_do_verify (crypto/dsa/dsa_ossl.c), verify that r and s are
+ positive and less than q.
+ [Bodo Moeller]
+
+ +) Enhance the general user interface with mechanisms for inner control
+ and with pssibilities to have yes/no kind of prompts.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ +) Change all calls to low level digest routines in the library and
applications to use EVP. Add missing calls to HMAC_cleanup() and
don't assume HMAC_CTX can be copied using memcpy().
[Verdon Walker <VWalker@novell.com>, Steve Henson]
a window system and the like.
[Richard Levitte]
+ *) Fix various bugs related to DSA S/MIME verification. Handle missing
+ parameters in DSA public key structures and return an error in the
+ DSA routines if parameters are absent.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
*) In versions up to 0.9.6, RAND_file_name() resorted to file ".rnd"
in the current directory if neither $RANDFILE nor $HOME was set.
RAND_file_name() in 0.9.6a returned NULL in this case. This has
ENGINE structure.
[Geoff]
- *) Fix various bugs related to DSA S/MIME verification. Handle missing
- parameters in DSA public key structures and return an error in the
- DSA routines if parameters are absent.
- [Steve Henson]
-
+) Fix ASN1 decoder when decoding type ANY and V_ASN1_OTHER: since this
needs to match any other type at all we need to manually clear the
tag cache.
*) Fix X509_NAME bug which produced incorrect encoding if X509_NAME
was empty.
+ [Steve Henson]
[This change does not apply to 0.9.7.]
*) Use the cached encoding of an X509_NAME structure rather than