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- NEWS
- ====
-
- This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL
- release. For more details please read the CHANGES file.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [in pre-release]
-
- o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl
- o Support for extended master secret
- o CCM ciphersuites
- o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More
- o Various libcrypto structures made opaque including: BIGNUM, EVP_MD,
- EVP_MD_CTX, HMAC_CTX, EVP_CIPHER and EVP_CIPHER_CTX.
- o libssl internal structures made opaque
- o SSLv2 support removed
- o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed
- o RC4 removed from DEFAULT ciphersuites in libssl
- o 40 and 56 bit cipher support removed from libssl
- o All public header files moved to include/openssl, no more symlinking
- o SSL/TLS state machine, version negotiation and record layer rewritten
- o EC revision: now operations use new EC_KEY_METHOD.
- o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto
- o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl
- o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either
- relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure
- argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option.
- o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version
- to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed.
- o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication
- o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation
- directory location rather than --openssldir. The latter becomes
- the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
-
- o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193)
- o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194)
- o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195)
- o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs
- o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
- return an error
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
-
- o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793)
- o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196)
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
-
- o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
-
- o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788)
- o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789)
- o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790)
- o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792)
- o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791)
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
-
- o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291)
- o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290)
- o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207)
- o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286)
- o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208)
- o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287)
- o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289)
- o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293)
- o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787)
- o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285)
- o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209)
- o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288)
- o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]:
-
- o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
- o Support for DTLS 1.2
- o TLS automatic EC curve selection.
- o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves
- o SSL_CONF configuration API.
- o TLS Brainpool support.
- o ALPN support.
- o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
-
- o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
-
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
- o Fix for CVE-2015-0206
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
- o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
- o Fix for CVE-2015-0205
- o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
-
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
- o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
-
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3512
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3511
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3509
- o Fix for CVE-2014-5139
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
-
- o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
- o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
- o Fix for CVE-2014-0198
- o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
- o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
- o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
-
- o Fix for CVE-2014-0160
- o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
- o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
-
- o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values
- o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353
- o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449
- o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]:
-
- o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]:
-
- o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version.
- o Include the fips configuration module.
- o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
- o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
- o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]:
-
- o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
- o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]:
-
- o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms.
- o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode.
- o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]:
-
- o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
- o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos.
- o Fix SEGV in AES code.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]:
-
- o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
- o SCTP support.
- o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
- o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
- o Next Protocol Negotiation.
- o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
- o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
- o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
- o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
- o SRP support.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]:
-
- o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
- o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
- o Various DTLS fixes.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]:
-
- o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]:
-
- o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
- o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
- o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
- o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027
- o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]:
-
- o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207
- o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210
- o Protection against EC timing attacks.
- o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms.
- o Various DTLS fixes.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]:
-
- o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]:
-
- o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
- o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
- o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension.
- o Fix various platform compilation issues.
- o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]:
-
- o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
- o Fix for CVE-2010-2939
- o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]:
-
- o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633.
- o GOST MAC and CFB fixes.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]:
-
- o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests.
- o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs.
- o Change default private key format to PKCS#8.
- o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134
- o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
- o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
- o ASN1 printing support.
- o Whirlpool hash algorithm added.
- o RFC3161 time stamp support.
- o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms.
- o New generalised public key API utilities.
- o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms.
- o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support.
- o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support.
- o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support.
- o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites.
- o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
- o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types.
- o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support.
- o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
-
- o CFB cipher definition fixes.
- o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
-
- o Cipher definition fixes.
- o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
- o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
- o SPKAC handling fixes.
- o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
- o Compression memory leak fixed.
- o Compression session resumption fixed.
- o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
- o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
-
- o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
-
- o Fix various build issues.
- o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
-
- o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
- o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
-
- o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
- o Various precautionary measures.
- o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
- o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
-
- o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
- o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
-
- o Add gcc 4.2 support.
- o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization
- for VC++ build.
- o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
- selected at compile time.
- o DTLS improvements.
- o RFC4507bis support.
- o TLS Extensions support.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
-
- o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
- o RFC3779 support.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
-
- o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
- o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
- o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
-
- o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
- o New cipher Camellia
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
-
- o Cipher string fixes.
- o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
- o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
- o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
- o Zlib compression usage fixes.
- o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
- o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
-
- o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
- o Extended Windows CE support
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
-
- o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
- make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
- is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
- o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
- curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
- o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
- the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
- o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
- configuration file.
- o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
- o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
- o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
- programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
- Makefile.shared.
- o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
- o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
- automatically from specifically given directories.
- o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
- o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
- o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
- mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
- function and an argument.
- o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
- o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
- Nehemiah processors.
- o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
- See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
- o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
- constraints and name constraints.
- o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
- configuration file.
- o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
- in the 'openssl ca' index file.
- o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
- 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
- o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
- 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
- o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
- o New BUF functions.
- o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
- sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
- private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
- This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing
- OpenSSL.
- o New control functions for the error stack.
- o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
- processing.
- o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
- functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
- 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
- o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
- affected functions.
- o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
- o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
- o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation
- of X.509 path validation.
- o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
- AMD64.
- o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
- by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new
- argument form 'enable-xxx'.
- o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
- SHA-1.
- o Added support for DTLS.
- o New BIGNUM blinding.
- o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
- o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
- o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
- o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
- o Added initial support for Win64.
- o Added alternate pkg-config files.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
-
- o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
- o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
-
- o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
- o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
-
- o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
-
- o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
- o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
-
- o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
-
- o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
- o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
- o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
-
- o More compilation issues fixed.
- o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
- o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
- o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
- o More constification.
- o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
-
- o Several compilation issues fixed.
- o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
- o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
- o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
- o Performance improvements.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
-
- o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
- o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
-
- o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
- o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
- o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
- o Multiple X509 verification fixes
- o Speed up HMAC and other operations
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
-
- o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
- o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
- o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
- o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
-
- o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
- Bleichbacher's attack
- o Security: make RSA blinding default.
- o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
- o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
- o Build: shared library support fixes.
- o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
- o Documentation: fixes and additions.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
-
- o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
- o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
- o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
- o IA32 assembler enhancements.
- o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
- o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
- o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
- o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
-
- o New library section OCSP.
- o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
- o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
- o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
- o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
- o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
- o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer
- a separate distribution.
- o New elliptic curve library section.
- o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
- o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
- Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
- o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
- o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
- o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
- o Support for pkg-config.
- o Lots of new manuals.
- o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described
- functions.
- o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
- against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
- Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
- future).
- o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
- to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
- o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
- o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
- and help optimizers.
- o Finally remove references to RSAref.
- o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
- o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
- Processing, IBM 4758.
- o A few new engines added in the demos area.
- o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
- o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
- EGD style random sources at several locations.
- o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
- o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
- o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
- Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
- o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
- o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
- o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
-
- o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
- o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
-
- o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
- Bleichbacher's attack
- o Security: make RSA blinding default.
- o Build: shared library support fixes.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
-
- o Important security related bugfixes.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
-
- o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
- o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
- o Better handling of SSL session caching.
- o Better comparison of distinguished names.
- o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
- o Support assembler code with Borland C.
- o Fixes for length problems.
- o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
- o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
- o Fixes for smaller building problems.
- o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
-
- o Important building fixes on Unix.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
-
- o Various important bugfixes.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
-
- o Important security related bugfixes.
- o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
-
- o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
- o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
-
- o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
- o BIGNUM library fixes.
- o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
- o Object identifiers corrected and added.
- o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
- o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
- MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
- o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
- Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
- [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
-
- o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
- o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
- o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
- attack.
- o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
- o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
- o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
- o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
- o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
- o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
- o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
- o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
- o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
- o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
-
- o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
- environment variables when running as root.
- o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
- possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
- calculated signature.
- o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
- o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
- master secret in DH ciphersuites.
- o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
- o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
- des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
- o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
- o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
- memory checking routines.
- o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
- o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications.
- o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
- o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
- o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
- o More documentation.
- o New function BN_rand_range().
- o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
-
- o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
- o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
- o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
- o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
- o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
- o MD4 now included.
- o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
- o Support for external crypto devices [1].
- o Enhanced EVP interface.
-
- [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate
- distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
-
- o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
- o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
- o Support of Linux/IA64
- o Assembler support for Mingw32
- o New 'rand' application
- o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
-
- o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
- o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
- o Automation of 'req' application
- o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
- o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
- o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions
- o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
- o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
- o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
- o Usable certificate chain verification
- o Certificate purpose checking
- o Certificate trust settings
- o Support of authority information access extension
- o Extensions in certificate requests
- o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
- o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
- o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
- o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
- o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
- record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
- data
- o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
- o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
- o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
- RSA functionality
- o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
- via a per-thread stack
- o PRNG robustness improved
- o EGD support
- o BIGNUM library bug fixes
- o Faster DSA parameter generation
- o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux
- o Experimental MacOS support
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
-
- o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
- by several software packages and are more secure than the standard
- form
- o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
- o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
- o Avoid various memory leaks
- o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
- must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
- o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
- o RSA OEAP related fixes
- o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
- o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
- o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
- o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
- extension support
- o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
- o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
- o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
- o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
- o Option to disable selected ciphers
-
- Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
- o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
- o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
- o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
- o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
- o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
- o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
- o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
- o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
- o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
- o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
- o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
- o Overhauled Win32 builds
- o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
- o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
- o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
- o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
- o Overhauled Perl interface
- o Lots of source tree cleanups.
- o Lots of memory leak fixes.
- o Lots of bug fixes.
-
- Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
- o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
- o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
- o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
- o Extended Big Number (BN) library
- o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
- o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
- o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
- o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
- o Support for various new platforms
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