From: Geoff Thorpe Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:52:40 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Summarise the last couple of commits. X-Git-Tag: BEN_FIPS_TEST_1~38^2~350 X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;h=96f7065f6392e19f1449578aaeabb8dc39294fa7;p=openssl.git Summarise the last couple of commits. --- diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index 1a30ede2af..32056ac1f1 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -4,6 +4,22 @@ Changes between 0.9.7 and 0.9.8 [xx XXX xxxx] + *) Added an ENGINE that implements RSA by performing private key + exponentiations with the GMP library. The conversions to and from + GMP's mpz_t format aren't optimised nor are any montgomery forms + cached, and on x86 it appears OpenSSL's own performance has caught up. + However there are likely to be other architectures where GMP could + provide a boost. This ENGINE is not built in by default, but it can be + specified at Configure time and should be accompanied by the necessary + linker additions, eg; + ./config -DOPENSSL_USE_GMP -lgmp + [Geoff Thorpe] + + *) "openssl engine" will not display ENGINE/DSO load failure errors when + testing availability of engines with "-t" - the old behaviour is + produced by increasing the feature's verbosity with "-tt". + [Geoff Thorpe] + *) ECDSA routines: under certain error conditions uninitialized BN objects could be freed. Solution: make sure initialization is performed early enough. (Reported and fix supplied by Nils Larsch