Improve ciphersuite order stability when disabling ciphersuites.

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@@ -4,6 +4,64 @@
 
  Changes between 0.9.8e and 0.9.9  [xx XXX xxxx]
 
+  *) Change ssl_cipher_apply_rule(), the internal function that does
+     the work each time a ciphersuite string requests enabling
+     ("foo+bar"), moving ("+foo+bar"), disabling ("-foo+bar", or
+     removing ("!foo+bar") a class of ciphersuites: Now it maintains
+     the order of disabled ciphersuites such that those ciphersuites
+     that most recently went from enabled to disabled not only stay
+     in order with respect to each other, but also have higher priority
+     than other disabled ciphersuites the next time ciphersuites are
+     enabled again.
+
+     This means that you can now say, e.g., "PSK:-PSK:HIGH" to enable
+     the same ciphersuites as with "HIGH" alone, but in a specific
+     order where the PSK ciphersuites come first (since they are the
+     most recently disabled ciphersuites when "HIGH" is parsed).
+
+     Also, change ssl_create_cipher_list() (using this new
+     funcionality) such that between otherwise identical
+     cihpersuites, ephemeral ECDH is preferred over ephemeral DH in
+     the default order.
+     [Bodo Moeller]
+
+  *) Change ssl_create_cipher_list() so that it automatically
+     arranges the ciphersuites in reasonable order before starting
+     to process the rule string.  Thus, the definition for "DEFAULT"
+     (SSL_DEFAULT_CIPHER_LIST) now is just "ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL", but
+     remains equivalent to "AES:ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL:+aECDH:+kRSA:+RC4:@STRENGTH".
+     This makes it much easier to arrive at a reasonable default order
+     in applications for which anonymous ciphers are OK (meaning
+     that you can't actually use DEFAULT).
+     [Bodo Moeller; suggested by Victor Duchovni]
+
+  *) Split the SSL/TLS algorithm mask (as used for ciphersuite string
+     processing) into multiple integers instead of setting
+     "SSL_MKEY_MASK" bits, "SSL_AUTH_MASK" bits, "SSL_ENC_MASK",
+     "SSL_MAC_MASK", and "SSL_SSL_MASK" bits all in a single integer.
+     (These masks as well as the individual bit definitions are hidden
+     away into the non-exported interface ssl/ssl_locl.h, so this
+     change to the definition of the SSL_CIPHER structure shouldn't
+     affect applications.)  This give us more bits for each of these
+     categories, so there is no longer a need to coagulate AES128 and
+     AES256 into a single algorithm bit, and to coagulate Camellia128
+     and Camellia256 into a single algorithm bit, which has led to all
+     kinds of kludges.
+
+     Thus, among other things, the kludge introduced in 0.9.7m and
+     0.9.8e for masking out AES256 independently of AES128 or masking
+     out Camellia256 independently of AES256 is not needed here in 0.9.9.
+
+     With the change, we also introduce new ciphersuite aliases that
+     so far were missing: "AES128", "AES256", "CAMELLIA128", and
+     "CAMELLIA256".
+     [Bodo Moeller]
+
+  *) Add support for dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256.
+     Use the leftmost N bytes of the signature input if the input is
+     larger than the prime q (with N being the size in bytes of q).
+     [Nils Larsch]
+
   *) Very *very* experimental PKCS#7 streaming encoder support. Nothing uses
      it yet and it is largely untested.
      [Steve Henson]
@@ -425,6 +483,18 @@
 
  Changes between 0.9.8d and 0.9.8e  [XX xxx XXXX]
 
+  *) Include "!eNULL" in SSL_DEFAULT_CIPHER_LIST to make sure that
+     a ciphersuite string such as "DEFAULT:RSA" cannot enable
+     authentication-only ciphersuites.
+     [Bodo Moeller]
+
+  *) Since AES128 and AES256 (and similarly Camellia128 and
+     Camellia256) share a single mask bit in the logic of
+     ssl/ssl_ciph.c, the code for masking out disabled ciphers needs a
+     kludge to work properly if AES128 is available and AES256 isn't
+     (or if Camellia128 is available and Camellia256 isn't).
+     [Victor Duchovni]
+
   *) Fix the BIT STRING encoding generated by crypto/ec/ec_asn1.c
      (within i2d_ECPrivateKey, i2d_ECPKParameters, i2d_ECParameters):
      When a point or a seed is encoded in a BIT STRING, we need to
@@ -1454,6 +1524,16 @@
 
  Changes between 0.9.7l and 0.9.7m  [xx XXX xxxx]
 
+  *) Include "!eNULL" in SSL_DEFAULT_CIPHER_LIST to make sure that
+     a ciphersuite string such as "DEFAULT:RSA" cannot enable
+     authentication-only ciphersuites.
+     [Bodo Moeller]
+
+  *) Since AES128 and AES256 share a single mask bit in the logic of
+     ssl/ssl_ciph.c, the code for masking out disabled ciphers needs a
+     kludge to work properly if AES128 is available and AES256 isn't.
+     [Victor Duchovni]
+
   *) Have SSL/TLS server implementation tolerate "mismatched" record
      protocol version while receiving ClientHello even if the
      ClientHello is fragmented.  (The server can't insist on the