By adding a BN_CTX parameter to the 'rsa_mod_exp' callback, private key

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  Changes between 0.9.7c and 0.9.8  [xx XXX xxxx]
 
+  *) Add a missing BN_CTX parameter to the 'rsa_mod_exp' callback in RSA_METHOD
+     to allow all RSA operations to function using a single BN_CTX.
+     [Geoff Thorpe]
+
+  *) Preliminary support for certificate policy evaluation and checking. This
+     is initially intended to pass the tests outlined in "Conformance Testing
+     of Relying Party Client Certificate Path Processing Logic" v1.07.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
+  *) bn_dup_expand() has been deprecated, it was introduced in 0.9.7 and
+     remained unused and not that useful. A variety of other little bignum
+     tweaks and fixes have also been made continuing on from the audit (see
+     below).
+     [Geoff Thorpe]
+
+  *) Constify all or almost all d2i, c2i, s2i and r2i functions, along with
+     associated ASN1, EVP and SSL functions and old ASN1 macros.
+     [Richard Levitte]
+
+  *) BN_zero() only needs to set 'top' and 'neg' to zero for correct results,
+     and this should never fail. So the return value from the use of
+     BN_set_word() (which can fail due to needless expansion) is now deprecated;
+     if OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED is defined, BN_zero() is a void macro.
+     [Geoff Thorpe]
+
+  *) BN_CTX_get() should return zero-valued bignums, providing the same
+     initialised value as BN_new().
+     [Geoff Thorpe, suggested by Ulf Möller]
+
+  *) Support for inhibitAnyPolicy certificate extension.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
+  *) An audit of the BIGNUM code is underway, for which debugging code is
+     enabled when BN_DEBUG is defined. This makes stricter enforcements on what
+     is considered valid when processing BIGNUMs, and causes execution to
+     assert() when a problem is discovered. If BN_DEBUG_RAND is defined,
+     further steps are taken to deliberately pollute unused data in BIGNUM
+     structures to try and expose faulty code further on. For now, openssl will
+     (in its default mode of operation) continue to tolerate the inconsistent
+     forms that it has tolerated in the past, but authors and packagers should
+     consider trying openssl and their own applications when compiled with
+     these debugging symbols defined. It will help highlight potential bugs in
+     their own code, and will improve the test coverage for OpenSSL itself. At
+     some point, these tighter rules will become openssl's default to improve
+     maintainability, though the assert()s and other overheads will remain only
+     in debugging configurations. See bn.h for more details.
+     [Geoff Thorpe, Nils Larsch, Ulf Möller]
+
+  *) BN_CTX_init() has been deprecated, as BN_CTX is an opaque structure
+     that can only be obtained through BN_CTX_new() (which implicitly
+     initialises it). The presence of this function only made it possible
+     to overwrite an existing structure (and cause memory leaks).
+     [Geoff Thorpe]
+
   *) Because of the callback-based approach for implementing LHASH as a
      template type, lh_insert() adds opaque objects to hash-tables and
      lh_doall() or lh_doall_arg() are typically used with a destructor callback
@@ -594,6 +648,31 @@
      [Richard Levitte]
 
  Changes between 0.9.7c and 0.9.7d  [xx XXX XXXX]
+
+  *) X509 verify fixes. Disable broken certificate workarounds when 
+     X509_V_FLAGS_X509_STRICT is set. Check CRL issuer has cRLSign set if
+     keyUsage extension present. Don't accept CRLs with unhandled critical
+     extensions: since verify currently doesn't process CRL extensions this
+     rejects a CRL with *any* critical extensions. Add new verify error codes
+     for these cases.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
+  *) When creating an OCSP nonce use an OCTET STRING inside the extnValue.
+     A clarification of RFC2560 will require the use of OCTET STRINGs and 
+     some implementations cannot handle the current raw format. Since OpenSSL
+     copies and compares OCSP nonces as opaque blobs without any attempt at
+     parsing them this should not create any compatibility issues.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
+  *) New md flag EVP_MD_CTX_FLAG_REUSE this allows md_data to be reused when
+     calling EVP_MD_CTX_copy_ex() to avoid calling OPENSSL_malloc(). Without
+     this HMAC (and other) operations are several times slower than OpenSSL
+     < 0.9.7.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
+  *) Print out GeneralizedTime and UTCTime in ASN1_STRING_print_ex().
+     [Peter Sylvester <Peter.Sylvester@EdelWeb.fr>]
+
   *) Use the correct content when signing type "other".
      [Steve Henson]