Start to reduce some of the header bloat.

[openssl.git] / CHANGES

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          *) applies to 0.9.6a/0.9.6b/0.9.6c and 0.9.7
          +) applies to 0.9.7 only
 
+  +) Move SSL_OP_TLS_ROLLBACK_BUG out of the SSL_OP_ALL list of recommended
+     bug workarounds. Rollback attack detection is a security feature.
+     The problem will only arise on OpenSSL servers when TLSv1 is not
+     available (sslv3_server_method() or SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1).
+     Software authors not wanting to support TLSv1 will have special reasons
+     for their choice and can explicitly enable this option.
+     [Bodo Moeller, Lutz Jaenicke]
+
+  +) Rationalise EVP so it can be extended: don't include a union of
+     cipher/digest structures, add init/cleanup functions. This also reduces
+     the number of header dependencies.
+     [Ben Laurie]
+
+  +) Make DES key schedule conform to the usual scheme, as well as
+     correcting its structure. This means that calls to DES functions
+     now have to pass a pointer to a des_key_schedule instead of a
+     plain des_key_schedule (which was actually always a pointer
+     anyway).
+     [Ben Laurie]
+
+  +) Enhanced support for IA-64 Unix platforms (well, Linux and HP-UX).
+     [Andy Polyakov]
+
+  *) Modified SSL library such that the verify_callback that has been set
+     specificly for an SSL object with SSL_set_verify() is actually being
+     used. Before the change, a verify_callback set with this function was
+     ignored and the verify_callback() set in the SSL_CTX at the time of
+     the call was used. New function X509_STORE_CTX_set_verify_cb() introduced
+     to allow the necessary settings.
+     [Lutz Jaenicke]
+
+  +) Initial reduction of linker bloat: the use of some functions, such as
+     PEM causes large amounts of unused functions to be linked in due to
+     poor organisation. For example pem_all.c contains every PEM function
+     which has a knock on effect of linking in large amounts of (unused)
+     ASN1 code. Grouping together similar functions and splitting unrelated
+     functions prevents this.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
+  *) Initialize static variable in crypto/dsa/dsa_lib.c and crypto/dh/dh_lib.c
+     explicitely to NULL, as at least on Solaris 8 this seems not always to be
+     done automatically (in contradiction to the requirements of the C
+     standard). This made problems when used from OpenSSH.
+     [Lutz Jaenicke]
+
+  *) In OpenSSL 0.9.6a and 0.9.6b, crypto/dh/dh_key.c ignored
+     dh->length and always used
+
+          BN_rand_range(priv_key, dh->p).
+
+     BN_rand_range() is not necessary for Diffie-Hellman, and this
+     specific range makes Diffie-Hellman unnecessarily inefficient if
+     dh->length (recommended exponent length) is much smaller than the
+     length of dh->p.  We could use BN_rand_range() if the order of
+     the subgroup was stored in the DH structure, but we only have
+     dh->length.
+
+     So switch back to
+
+          BN_rand(priv_key, l, ...)
+
+     where 'l' is dh->length if this is defined, or BN_num_bits(dh->p)-1
+     otherwise.
+     [Bodo Moeller]
+
   *) In
 
           RSA_eay_public_encrypt
@@ -785,6 +850,7 @@ des-cbc           3624.96k     5258.21k     5530.91k     5624.30k     5628.26k
      the clients preferred ciphersuites and rather use its own preferences.
      Should help to work around M$ SGC (Server Gated Cryptography) bug in
      Internet Explorer by ensuring unchanged hash method during stepup.
+     (Also replaces the broken/deactivated SSL_OP_NON_EXPORT_FIRST option.)
      [Lutz Jaenicke]
 
   +) Make mkdef.pl recognise all DECLARE_ASN1 macros, change rijndael