5 Changes between 0.9.8e and 0.9.9 [xx XXX xxxx]
7 *) Add an X509_CRL_METHOD structure to allow CRL processing to be redirected
8 to external functions. This can be used to increase CRL handling
9 efficiency especially when CRLs are very large by (for example) storing
10 the CRL revoked certificates in a database.
13 *) Overhaul of by_dir code. Add support for dynamic loading of CRLs so
14 new CRLs added to a directory can be used. New command line option
15 -verify_return_error to s_client and s_server. This causes real errors
16 to be returned by the verify callback instead of carrying on no matter
17 what. This reflects the way a "real world" verify callback would behave.
20 *) GOST engine, supporting several GOST algorithms and public key formats.
21 Kindly donated by Cryptocom.
24 *) Partial support for Issuing Distribution Point CRL extension. CRLs
25 partitioned by DP are handled but no indirect CRL or reason partitioning
26 (yet). Complete overhaul of CRL handling: now the most suitable CRL is
27 selected via a scoring technique which handles IDP and AKID in CRLs.
30 *) New X509_STORE_CTX callbacks lookup_crls() and lookup_certs() which
31 will ultimately be used for all verify operations: this will remove the
32 X509_STORE dependency on certificate verification and allow alternative
33 lookup methods. X509_STORE based implementations of these two callbacks.
36 *) Allow multiple CRLs to exist in an X509_STORE with matching issuer names.
37 Modify get_crl() to find a valid (unexpired) CRL if possible.
40 *) New function X509_CRL_match() to check if two CRLs are identical. Normally
41 this would be called X509_CRL_cmp() but that name is already used by
42 a function that just compares CRL issuer names. Cache several CRL
43 extensions in X509_CRL structure and cache CRLDP in X509.
46 *) Store a "canonical" representation of X509_NAME structure (ASN1 Name)
47 this maps equivalent X509_NAME structures into a consistent structure.
48 Name comparison can then be performed rapidly using memcmp().
51 *) Non-blocking OCSP request processing. Add -timeout option to ocsp
55 *) Allow digests to supply their own micalg string for S/MIME type using
56 the ctrl EVP_MD_CTRL_MICALG.
59 *) During PKCS7 signing pass the PKCS7 SignerInfo structure to the
60 EVP_PKEY_METHOD before and after signing via the EVP_PKEY_CTRL_PKCS7_SIGN
61 ctrl. It can then customise the structure before and/or after signing
65 *) New function OBJ_add_sigid() to allow application defined signature OIDs
66 to be added to OpenSSLs internal tables. New function OBJ_sigid_free()
67 to free up any added signature OIDs.
70 *) New functions EVP_CIPHER_do_all(), EVP_CIPHER_do_all_sorted(),
71 EVP_MD_do_all() and EVP_MD_do_all_sorted() to enumerate internal
72 digest and cipher tables. New options added to openssl utility:
73 list-message-digest-algorithms and list-cipher-algorithms.
76 *) In addition to the numerical (unsigned long) thread ID, provide
77 for a pointer (void *) thread ID. This helps accomodate systems
78 that do not provide an unsigned long thread ID. OpenSSL assumes
79 it is in the same thread iff both the numerical and the pointer
80 thread ID agree; so applications are just required to define one
81 of them appropriately (e.g., by using a pointer to a per-thread
82 memory object malloc()ed by the application for the pointer-type
83 thread ID). Exactly analoguous to the existing functions
85 void CRYPTO_set_id_callback(unsigned long (*func)(void));
86 unsigned long (*CRYPTO_get_id_callback(void))(void);
87 unsigned long CRYPTO_thread_id(void);
89 we now have additional functions
91 void CRYPTO_set_idptr_callback(void *(*func)(void));
92 void *(*CRYPTO_get_idptr_callback(void))(void);
93 void *CRYPTO_thread_idptr(void);
95 also in <openssl/crypto.h>. The default value for
96 CRYPTO_thread_idptr() if the application has not provided its own
100 *) Change the array representation of binary polynomials: the list
101 of degrees of non-zero coefficients is now terminated with -1.
102 Previously it was terminated with 0, which was also part of the
103 value; thus, the array representation was not applicable to
104 polynomials where t^0 has coefficient zero. This change makes
105 the array representation useful in a more general context.
108 *) Various modifications and fixes to SSL/TLS cipher string
109 handling. For ECC, the code now distinguishes between fixed ECDH
110 with RSA certificates on the one hand and with ECDSA certificates
111 on the other hand, since these are separate ciphersuites. The
112 unused code for Fortezza ciphersuites has been removed.
114 For consistency with EDH, ephemeral ECDH is now called "EECDH"
115 (not "ECDHE"). For consistency with the code for DH
116 certificates, use of ECDH certificates is now considered ECDH
117 authentication, not RSA or ECDSA authentication (the latter is
118 merely the CA's signing algorithm and not actively used in the
121 The temporary ciphersuite alias "ECCdraft" is no longer
122 available, and ECC ciphersuites are no longer excluded from "ALL"
123 and "DEFAULT". The following aliases now exist for RFC 4492
124 ciphersuites, most of these by analogy with the DH case:
126 kECDHr - ECDH cert, signed with RSA
127 kECDHe - ECDH cert, signed with ECDSA
128 kECDH - ECDH cert (signed with either RSA or ECDSA)
129 kEECDH - ephemeral ECDH
130 ECDH - ECDH cert or ephemeral ECDH
136 AECDH - anonymous ECDH
137 EECDH - non-anonymous ephemeral ECDH (equivalent to "kEECDH:-AECDH")
141 *) Add additional S/MIME capabilities for AES and GOST ciphers if supported.
142 Use correct micalg parameters depending on digest(s) in signed message.
145 *) Add engine support for EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD. Add functions to process
146 an ENGINE asn1 method. Support ENGINE lookups in the ASN1 code.
149 *) Initial engine support for EVP_PKEY_METHOD. New functions to permit
150 an engine to register a method. Add ENGINE lookups for methods and
151 functional reference processing.
154 *) New functions EVP_Digest{Sign,Verify)*. These are enchance versions of
155 EVP_{Sign,Verify}* which allow an application to customise the signature
159 *) New -resign option to smime utility. This adds one or more signers
160 to an existing PKCS#7 signedData structure. Also -md option to use an
161 alternative message digest algorithm for signing.
164 *) Tidy up PKCS#7 routines and add new functions to make it easier to
165 create PKCS7 structures containing multiple signers. Update smime
166 application to support multiple signers.
169 *) New -macalg option to pkcs12 utility to allow setting of an alternative
173 *) Initial support for PKCS#5 v2.0 PRFs other than default SHA1 HMAC.
174 Reorganize PBE internals to lookup from a static table using NIDs,
175 add support for HMAC PBE OID translation. Add a EVP_CIPHER ctrl:
176 EVP_CTRL_PBE_PRF_NID this allows a cipher to specify an alternative
177 PRF which will be automatically used with PBES2.
180 *) Replace the algorithm specific calls to generate keys in "req" with the
184 *) Update PKCS#7 enveloped data routines to use new API. This is now
185 supported by any public key method supporting the encrypt operation. A
186 ctrl is added to allow the public key algorithm to examine or modify
187 the PKCS#7 RecipientInfo structure if it needs to: for RSA this is
191 *) Add a ctrl to asn1 method to allow a public key algorithm to express
192 a default digest type to use. In most cases this will be SHA1 but some
193 algorithms (such as GOST) need to specify an alternative digest. The
194 return value indicates how strong the prefernce is 1 means optional and
195 2 is mandatory (that is it is the only supported type). Modify
196 ASN1_item_sign() to accept a NULL digest argument to indicate it should
197 use the default md. Update openssl utilities to use the default digest
198 type for signing if it is not explicitly indicated.
201 *) Use OID cross reference table in ASN1_sign() and ASN1_verify(). New
202 EVP_MD flag EVP_MD_FLAG_PKEY_METHOD_SIGNATURE. This uses the relevant
203 signing method from the key type. This effectively removes the link
204 between digests and public key types.
207 *) Add an OID cross reference table and utility functions. Its purpose is to
208 translate between signature OIDs such as SHA1WithrsaEncryption and SHA1,
209 rsaEncryption. This will allow some of the algorithm specific hackery
210 needed to use the correct OID to be removed.
213 *) Remove algorithm specific dependencies when setting PKCS7_SIGNER_INFO
214 structures for PKCS7_sign(). They are now set up by the relevant public
218 *) Add provisional EC pkey method with support for ECDSA and ECDH.
221 *) Add support for key derivation (agreement) in the API, DH method and
225 *) Add DSA pkey method and DH pkey methods, extend DH ASN1 method to support
226 public and private key formats. As a side effect these add additional
227 command line functionality not previously available: DSA signatures can be
228 generated and verified using pkeyutl and DH key support and generation in
233 [Oliver Tappe <zooey@hirschkaefer.de>]
235 *) New make target "install_html_docs" installs HTML renditions of the
237 [Oliver Tappe <zooey@hirschkaefer.de>]
239 *) New utility "genpkey" this is analagous to "genrsa" etc except it can
240 generate keys for any algorithm. Extend and update EVP_PKEY_METHOD to
241 support key and parameter generation and add initial key generation
242 functionality for RSA.
245 *) Add functions for main EVP_PKEY_method operations. The undocumented
246 functions EVP_PKEY_{encrypt,decrypt} have been renamed to
247 EVP_PKEY_{encrypt,decrypt}_old.
250 *) Initial definitions for EVP_PKEY_METHOD. This will be a high level public
251 key API, doesn't do much yet.
254 *) New function EVP_PKEY_asn1_get0_info() to retrieve information about
255 public key algorithms. New option to openssl utility:
256 "list-public-key-algorithms" to print out info.
259 *) Implement the Supported Elliptic Curves Extension for
260 ECC ciphersuites from draft-ietf-tls-ecc-12.txt.
263 *) Don't free up OIDs in OBJ_cleanup() if they are in use by EVP_MD or
264 EVP_CIPHER structures to avoid later problems in EVP_cleanup().
267 *) New utilities pkey and pkeyparam. These are similar to algorithm specific
268 utilities such as rsa, dsa, dsaparam etc except they process any key
272 *) Transfer public key printing routines to EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD. New
273 functions EVP_PKEY_print_public(), EVP_PKEY_print_private(),
274 EVP_PKEY_print_param() to print public key data from an EVP_PKEY
278 *) Initial support for pluggable public key ASN1.
279 De-spaghettify the public key ASN1 handling. Move public and private
280 key ASN1 handling to a new EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD structure. Relocate
281 algorithm specific handling to a single module within the relevant
282 algorithm directory. Add functions to allow (near) opaque processing
283 of public and private key structures.
286 *) Implement the Supported Point Formats Extension for
287 ECC ciphersuites from draft-ietf-tls-ecc-12.txt.
290 *) Add initial support for RFC 4279 PSK TLS ciphersuites. Add members
291 for the psk identity [hint] and the psk callback functions to the
292 SSL_SESSION, SSL and SSL_CTX structure.
295 PSK-RC4-SHA, PSK-3DES-EDE-CBC-SHA, PSK-AES128-CBC-SHA,
299 SSL_CTX_use_psk_identity_hint
300 SSL_get_psk_identity_hint
302 SSL_use_psk_identity_hint
304 [Mika Kousa and Pasi Eronen of Nokia Corporation]
306 *) Add RFC 3161 compliant time stamp request creation, response generation
307 and response verification functionality.
308 [Zoltán Glózik <zglozik@opentsa.org>, The OpenTSA Project]
310 *) Add initial support for TLS extensions, specifically for the server_name
311 extension so far. The SSL_SESSION, SSL_CTX, and SSL data structures now
312 have new members for a host name. The SSL data structure has an
313 additional member SSL_CTX *initial_ctx so that new sessions can be
314 stored in that context to allow for session resumption, even after the
315 SSL has been switched to a new SSL_CTX in reaction to a client's
316 server_name extension.
318 New functions (subject to change):
321 SSL_get_servername_type()
324 New CTRL codes and macros (subject to change):
326 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_SERVERNAME_CB
327 - SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_callback()
328 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_SERVERNAME_ARG
329 - SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_arg()
330 SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_HOSTNAME - SSL_set_tlsext_hostname()
332 openssl s_client has a new '-servername ...' option.
334 openssl s_server has new options '-servername_host ...', '-cert2 ...',
335 '-key2 ...', '-servername_fatal' (subject to change). This allows
336 testing the HostName extension for a specific single host name ('-cert'
337 and '-key' remain fallbacks for handshakes without HostName
338 negotiation). If the unrecogninzed_name alert has to be sent, this by
339 default is a warning; it becomes fatal with the '-servername_fatal'
342 [Peter Sylvester, Remy Allais, Christophe Renou]
344 *) Whirlpool hash implementation is added.
347 *) BIGNUM code on 64-bit SPARCv9 targets is switched from bn(64,64) to
348 bn(64,32). Because of instruction set limitations it doesn't have
349 any negative impact on performance. This was done mostly in order
350 to make it possible to share assembler modules, such as bn_mul_mont
351 implementations, between 32- and 64-bit builds without hassle.
354 *) Move code previously exiled into file crypto/ec/ec2_smpt.c
355 to ec2_smpl.c, and no longer require the OPENSSL_EC_BIN_PT_COMP
359 *) New candidate for BIGNUM assembler implementation, bn_mul_mont,
360 dedicated Montgomery multiplication procedure, is introduced.
361 BN_MONT_CTX is modified to allow bn_mul_mont to reach for higher
362 "64-bit" performance on certain 32-bit targets.
365 *) New option SSL_OP_NO_COMP to disable use of compression selectively
366 in SSL structures. New SSL ctrl to set maximum send fragment size.
367 Save memory by seeting the I/O buffer sizes dynamically instead of
368 using the maximum available value.
371 *) New option -V for 'openssl ciphers'. This prints the ciphersuite code
372 in addition to the text details.
375 *) Very, very preliminary EXPERIMENTAL support for printing of general
376 ASN1 structures. This currently produces rather ugly output and doesn't
377 handle several customised structures at all.
380 *) Integrated support for PVK file format and some related formats such
381 as MS PUBLICKEYBLOB and PRIVATEKEYBLOB. Command line switches to support
382 these in the 'rsa' and 'dsa' utilities.
385 *) Support for PKCS#1 RSAPublicKey format on rsa utility command line.
388 *) Remove the ancient ASN1_METHOD code. This was only ever used in one
389 place for the (very old) "NETSCAPE" format certificates which are now
390 handled using new ASN1 code equivalents.
393 *) Let the TLSv1_method() etc. functions return a 'const' SSL_METHOD
394 pointer and make the SSL_METHOD parameter in SSL_CTX_new,
395 SSL_CTX_set_ssl_version and SSL_set_ssl_method 'const'.
398 *) Modify CRL distribution points extension code to print out previously
399 unsupported fields. Enhance extension setting code to allow setting of
403 *) Add print and set support for Issuing Distribution Point CRL extension.
406 *) Change 'Configure' script to enable Camellia by default.
409 Changes between 0.9.8d and 0.9.8e [XX xxx XXXX]
411 Changes between 0.9.8c and 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]
413 *) Introduce limits to prevent malicious keys being able to
414 cause a denial of service. (CVE-2006-2940)
415 [Steve Henson, Bodo Moeller]
417 *) Fix ASN.1 parsing of certain invalid structures that can result
418 in a denial of service. (CVE-2006-2937) [Steve Henson]
420 *) Fix buffer overflow in SSL_get_shared_ciphers() function.
421 (CVE-2006-3738) [Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry, Google Security Team]
423 *) Fix SSL client code which could crash if connecting to a
424 malicious SSLv2 server. (CVE-2006-4343)
425 [Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry, Google Security Team]
427 *) Since 0.9.8b, ciphersuite strings naming explicit ciphersuites
428 match only those. Before that, "AES256-SHA" would be interpreted
429 as a pattern and match "AES128-SHA" too (since AES128-SHA got
430 the same strength classification in 0.9.7h) as we currently only
431 have a single AES bit in the ciphersuite description bitmap.
432 That change, however, also applied to ciphersuite strings such as
433 "RC4-MD5" that intentionally matched multiple ciphersuites --
434 namely, SSL 2.0 ciphersuites in addition to the more common ones
435 from SSL 3.0/TLS 1.0.
437 So we change the selection algorithm again: Naming an explicit
438 ciphersuite selects this one ciphersuite, and any other similar
439 ciphersuite (same bitmap) from *other* protocol versions.
440 Thus, "RC4-MD5" again will properly select both the SSL 2.0
441 ciphersuite and the SSL 3.0/TLS 1.0 ciphersuite.
443 Since SSL 2.0 does not have any ciphersuites for which the
444 128/256 bit distinction would be relevant, this works for now.
445 The proper fix will be to use different bits for AES128 and
446 AES256, which would have avoided the problems from the beginning;
447 however, bits are scarce, so we can only do this in a new release
448 (not just a patchlevel) when we can change the SSL_CIPHER
449 definition to split the single 'unsigned long mask' bitmap into
450 multiple values to extend the available space.
454 Changes between 0.9.8b and 0.9.8c [05 Sep 2006]
456 *) Avoid PKCS #1 v1.5 signature attack discovered by Daniel Bleichenbacher
457 (CVE-2006-4339) [Ben Laurie and Google Security Team]
459 *) Add AES IGE and biIGE modes.
462 *) Change the Unix randomness entropy gathering to use poll() when
463 possible instead of select(), since the latter has some
464 undesirable limitations.
465 [Darryl Miles via Richard Levitte and Bodo Moeller]
467 *) Disable "ECCdraft" ciphersuites more thoroughly. Now special
468 treatment in ssl/ssl_ciph.s makes sure that these ciphersuites
469 cannot be implicitly activated as part of, e.g., the "AES" alias.
470 However, please upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.9[-dev] for
471 non-experimental use of the ECC ciphersuites to get TLS extension
472 support, which is required for curve and point format negotiation
473 to avoid potential handshake problems.
476 *) Disable rogue ciphersuites:
478 - SSLv2 0x08 0x00 0x80 ("RC4-64-MD5")
479 - SSLv3/TLSv1 0x00 0x61 ("EXP1024-RC2-CBC-MD5")
480 - SSLv3/TLSv1 0x00 0x60 ("EXP1024-RC4-MD5")
482 The latter two were purportedly from
483 draft-ietf-tls-56-bit-ciphersuites-0[01].txt, but do not really
486 Also deactive the remaining ciphersuites from
487 draft-ietf-tls-56-bit-ciphersuites-01.txt. These are just as
488 unofficial, and the ID has long expired.
491 *) Fix RSA blinding Heisenbug (problems sometimes occured on
492 dual-core machines) and other potential thread-safety issues.
495 *) Add the symmetric cipher Camellia (128-bit, 192-bit, 256-bit key
496 versions), which is now available for royalty-free use
497 (see http://info.isl.ntt.co.jp/crypt/eng/info/chiteki.html).
498 Also, add Camellia TLS ciphersuites from RFC 4132.
500 To minimize changes between patchlevels in the OpenSSL 0.9.8
501 series, Camellia remains excluded from compilation unless OpenSSL
502 is configured with 'enable-camellia'.
505 *) Disable the padding bug check when compression is in use. The padding
506 bug check assumes the first packet is of even length, this is not
507 necessarily true if compresssion is enabled and can result in false
508 positives causing handshake failure. The actual bug test is ancient
509 code so it is hoped that implementations will either have fixed it by
510 now or any which still have the bug do not support compression.
513 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.8b [04 May 2006]
515 *) When applying a cipher rule check to see if string match is an explicit
516 cipher suite and only match that one cipher suite if it is.
519 *) Link in manifests for VC++ if needed.
520 [Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com>]
522 *) Update support for ECC-based TLS ciphersuites according to
523 draft-ietf-tls-ecc-12.txt with proposed changes (but without
524 TLS extensions, which are supported starting with the 0.9.9
525 branch, not in the OpenSSL 0.9.8 branch).
528 *) New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free() to support
529 opaque EVP_CIPHER_CTX handling.
532 *) Fixes and enhancements to zlib compression code. We now only use
533 "zlib1.dll" and use the default __cdecl calling convention on Win32
534 to conform with the standards mentioned here:
535 http://www.zlib.net/DLL_FAQ.txt
536 Static zlib linking now works on Windows and the new --with-zlib-include
537 --with-zlib-lib options to Configure can be used to supply the location
538 of the headers and library. Gracefully handle case where zlib library
542 *) Several fixes and enhancements to the OID generation code. The old code
543 sometimes allowed invalid OIDs (1.X for X >= 40 for example), couldn't
544 handle numbers larger than ULONG_MAX, truncated printing and had a
545 non standard OBJ_obj2txt() behaviour.
548 *) Add support for building of engines under engine/ as shared libraries
549 under VC++ build system.
552 *) Corrected the numerous bugs in the Win32 path splitter in DSO.
553 Hopefully, we will not see any false combination of paths any more.
556 Changes between 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]
558 *) Remove the functionality of SSL_OP_MSIE_SSLV2_RSA_PADDING
559 (part of SSL_OP_ALL). This option used to disable the
560 countermeasure against man-in-the-middle protocol-version
561 rollback in the SSL 2.0 server implementation, which is a bad
562 idea. (CVE-2005-2969)
564 [Bodo Moeller; problem pointed out by Yutaka Oiwa (Research Center
565 for Information Security, National Institute of Advanced Industrial
566 Science and Technology [AIST], Japan)]
568 *) Add two function to clear and return the verify parameter flags.
571 *) Keep cipherlists sorted in the source instead of sorting them at
572 runtime, thus removing the need for a lock.
575 *) Avoid some small subgroup attacks in Diffie-Hellman.
576 [Nick Mathewson and Ben Laurie]
578 *) Add functions for well-known primes.
581 *) Extended Windows CE support.
582 [Satoshi Nakamura and Andy Polyakov]
584 *) Initialize SSL_METHOD structures at compile time instead of during
585 runtime, thus removing the need for a lock.
588 *) Make PKCS7_decrypt() work even if no certificate is supplied by
589 attempting to decrypt each encrypted key in turn. Add support to
593 Changes between 0.9.7h and 0.9.8 [05 Jul 2005]
595 [NB: OpenSSL 0.9.7i and later 0.9.7 patch levels were released after
598 *) Add libcrypto.pc and libssl.pc for those who feel they need them.
601 *) Change CA.sh and CA.pl so they don't bundle the CSR and the private
602 key into the same file any more.
605 *) Add initial support for Win64, both IA64 and AMD64/x64 flavors.
608 *) Add -utf8 command line and config file option to 'ca'.
609 [Stefan <stf@udoma.org]
611 *) Removed the macro des_crypt(), as it seems to conflict with some
612 libraries. Use DES_crypt().
615 *) Correct naming of the 'chil' and '4758cca' ENGINEs. This
616 involves renaming the source and generated shared-libs for
617 both. The engines will accept the corrected or legacy ids
618 ('ncipher' and '4758_cca' respectively) when binding. NB,
619 this only applies when building 'shared'.
620 [Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> and Geoff Thorpe]
622 *) Add attribute functions to EVP_PKEY structure. Modify
623 PKCS12_create() to recognize a CSP name attribute and
624 use it. Make -CSP option work again in pkcs12 utility.
627 *) Add new functionality to the bn blinding code:
628 - automatic re-creation of the BN_BLINDING parameters after
629 a fixed number of uses (currently 32)
630 - add new function for parameter creation
631 - introduce flags to control the update behaviour of the
632 BN_BLINDING parameters
633 - hide BN_BLINDING structure
634 Add a second BN_BLINDING slot to the RSA structure to improve
635 performance when a single RSA object is shared among several
639 *) Add support for DTLS.
640 [Nagendra Modadugu <nagendra@cs.stanford.edu> and Ben Laurie]
642 *) Add support for DER encoded private keys (SSL_FILETYPE_ASN1)
643 to SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file() and SSL_use_PrivateKey_file()
646 *) Remove buggy and incompletet DH cert support from
647 ssl/ssl_rsa.c and ssl/s3_both.c
650 *) Use SHA-1 instead of MD5 as the default digest algorithm for
651 the apps/openssl applications.
654 *) Compile clean with "-Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
655 -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Werror". Currently
656 DEBUG_SAFESTACK must also be set.
659 *) Change ./Configure so that certain algorithms can be disabled by default.
660 The new counterpiece to "no-xxx" is "enable-xxx".
662 The patented RC5 and MDC2 algorithms will now be disabled unless
663 "enable-rc5" and "enable-mdc2", respectively, are specified.
665 (IDEA remains enabled despite being patented. This is because IDEA
666 is frequently required for interoperability, and there is no license
667 fee for non-commercial use. As before, "no-idea" can be used to
668 avoid this algorithm.)
672 *) Add processing of proxy certificates (see RFC 3820). This work was
673 sponsored by KTH (The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm) and
674 EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe).
677 *) RC4 performance overhaul on modern architectures/implementations, such
678 as Intel P4, IA-64 and AMD64.
681 *) New utility extract-section.pl. This can be used specify an alternative
682 section number in a pod file instead of having to treat each file as
683 a separate case in Makefile. This can be done by adding two lines to the
686 =for comment openssl_section:XXX
688 The blank line is mandatory.
692 *) New arguments -certform, -keyform and -pass for s_client and s_server
693 to allow alternative format key and certificate files and passphrase
697 *) New structure X509_VERIFY_PARAM which combines current verify parameters,
698 update associated structures and add various utility functions.
700 Add new policy related verify parameters, include policy checking in
701 standard verify code. Enhance 'smime' application with extra parameters
702 to support policy checking and print out.
705 *) Add a new engine to support VIA PadLock ACE extensions in the VIA C3
706 Nehemiah processors. These extensions support AES encryption in hardware
707 as well as RNG (though RNG support is currently disabled).
708 [Michal Ludvig <michal@logix.cz>, with help from Andy Polyakov]
710 *) Deprecate BN_[get|set]_params() functions (they were ignored internally).
713 *) New FIPS 180-2 algorithms, SHA-224/-256/-384/-512 are implemented.
714 [Andy Polyakov and a number of other people]
716 *) Improved PowerPC platform support. Most notably BIGNUM assembler
717 implementation contributed by IBM.
718 [Suresh Chari, Peter Waltenberg, Andy Polyakov]
720 *) The new 'RSA_generate_key_ex' function now takes a BIGNUM for the public
721 exponent rather than 'unsigned long'. There is a corresponding change to
722 the new 'rsa_keygen' element of the RSA_METHOD structure.
723 [Jelte Jansen, Geoff Thorpe]
725 *) Functionality for creating the initial serial number file is now
726 moved from CA.pl to the 'ca' utility with a new option -create_serial.
728 (Before OpenSSL 0.9.7e, CA.pl used to initialize the serial
729 number file to 1, which is bound to cause problems. To avoid
730 the problems while respecting compatibility between different 0.9.7
731 patchlevels, 0.9.7e employed 'openssl x509 -next_serial' in
732 CA.pl for serial number initialization. With the new release 0.9.8,
733 we can fix the problem directly in the 'ca' utility.)
736 *) Reduced header interdepencies by declaring more opaque objects in
737 ossl_typ.h. As a consequence, including some headers (eg. engine.h) will
738 give fewer recursive includes, which could break lazy source code - so
739 this change is covered by the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED symbol. As always,
740 developers should define this symbol when building and using openssl to
741 ensure they track the recommended behaviour, interfaces, [etc], but
742 backwards-compatible behaviour prevails when this isn't defined.
745 *) New function X509_POLICY_NODE_print() which prints out policy nodes.
748 *) Add new EVP function EVP_CIPHER_CTX_rand_key and associated functionality.
749 This will generate a random key of the appropriate length based on the
750 cipher context. The EVP_CIPHER can provide its own random key generation
751 routine to support keys of a specific form. This is used in the des and
752 3des routines to generate a key of the correct parity. Update S/MIME
753 code to use new functions and hence generate correct parity DES keys.
754 Add EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY #define to return an error if the key is not
755 valid (weak or incorrect parity).
758 *) Add a local set of CRLs that can be used by X509_verify_cert() as well
759 as looking them up. This is useful when the verified structure may contain
760 CRLs, for example PKCS#7 signedData. Modify PKCS7_verify() to use any CRLs
761 present unless the new PKCS7_NO_CRL flag is asserted.
764 *) Extend ASN1 oid configuration module. It now additionally accepts the
767 shortName = some long name, 1.2.3.4
770 *) Reimplemented the BN_CTX implementation. There is now no more static
771 limitation on the number of variables it can handle nor the depth of the
772 "stack" handling for BN_CTX_start()/BN_CTX_end() pairs. The stack
773 information can now expand as required, and rather than having a single
774 static array of bignums, BN_CTX now uses a linked-list of such arrays
775 allowing it to expand on demand whilst maintaining the usefulness of
779 *) Add a missing BN_CTX parameter to the 'rsa_mod_exp' callback in RSA_METHOD
780 to allow all RSA operations to function using a single BN_CTX.
783 *) Preliminary support for certificate policy evaluation and checking. This
784 is initially intended to pass the tests outlined in "Conformance Testing
785 of Relying Party Client Certificate Path Processing Logic" v1.07.
788 *) bn_dup_expand() has been deprecated, it was introduced in 0.9.7 and
789 remained unused and not that useful. A variety of other little bignum
790 tweaks and fixes have also been made continuing on from the audit (see
794 *) Constify all or almost all d2i, c2i, s2i and r2i functions, along with
795 associated ASN1, EVP and SSL functions and old ASN1 macros.
798 *) BN_zero() only needs to set 'top' and 'neg' to zero for correct results,
799 and this should never fail. So the return value from the use of
800 BN_set_word() (which can fail due to needless expansion) is now deprecated;
801 if OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED is defined, BN_zero() is a void macro.
804 *) BN_CTX_get() should return zero-valued bignums, providing the same
805 initialised value as BN_new().
806 [Geoff Thorpe, suggested by Ulf Möller]
808 *) Support for inhibitAnyPolicy certificate extension.
811 *) An audit of the BIGNUM code is underway, for which debugging code is
812 enabled when BN_DEBUG is defined. This makes stricter enforcements on what
813 is considered valid when processing BIGNUMs, and causes execution to
814 assert() when a problem is discovered. If BN_DEBUG_RAND is defined,
815 further steps are taken to deliberately pollute unused data in BIGNUM
816 structures to try and expose faulty code further on. For now, openssl will
817 (in its default mode of operation) continue to tolerate the inconsistent
818 forms that it has tolerated in the past, but authors and packagers should
819 consider trying openssl and their own applications when compiled with
820 these debugging symbols defined. It will help highlight potential bugs in
821 their own code, and will improve the test coverage for OpenSSL itself. At
822 some point, these tighter rules will become openssl's default to improve
823 maintainability, though the assert()s and other overheads will remain only
824 in debugging configurations. See bn.h for more details.
825 [Geoff Thorpe, Nils Larsch, Ulf Möller]
827 *) BN_CTX_init() has been deprecated, as BN_CTX is an opaque structure
828 that can only be obtained through BN_CTX_new() (which implicitly
829 initialises it). The presence of this function only made it possible
830 to overwrite an existing structure (and cause memory leaks).
833 *) Because of the callback-based approach for implementing LHASH as a
834 template type, lh_insert() adds opaque objects to hash-tables and
835 lh_doall() or lh_doall_arg() are typically used with a destructor callback
836 to clean up those corresponding objects before destroying the hash table
837 (and losing the object pointers). So some over-zealous constifications in
838 LHASH have been relaxed so that lh_insert() does not take (nor store) the
839 objects as "const" and the lh_doall[_arg] callback wrappers are not
840 prototyped to have "const" restrictions on the object pointers they are
841 given (and so aren't required to cast them away any more).
844 *) The tmdiff.h API was so ugly and minimal that our own timing utility
845 (speed) prefers to use its own implementation. The two implementations
846 haven't been consolidated as yet (volunteers?) but the tmdiff API has had
847 its object type properly exposed (MS_TM) instead of casting to/from "char
848 *". This may still change yet if someone realises MS_TM and "ms_time_***"
849 aren't necessarily the greatest nomenclatures - but this is what was used
850 internally to the implementation so I've used that for now.
853 *) Ensure that deprecated functions do not get compiled when
854 OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED is defined. Some "openssl" subcommands and a few of
855 the self-tests were still using deprecated key-generation functions so
856 these have been updated also.
859 *) Reorganise PKCS#7 code to separate the digest location functionality
860 into PKCS7_find_digest(), digest addtion into PKCS7_bio_add_digest().
861 New function PKCS7_set_digest() to set the digest type for PKCS#7
862 digestedData type. Add additional code to correctly generate the
863 digestedData type and add support for this type in PKCS7 initialization
867 *) New function PKCS7_set0_type_other() this initializes a PKCS7
868 structure of type "other".
871 *) Fix prime generation loop in crypto/bn/bn_prime.pl by making
872 sure the loop does correctly stop and breaking ("division by zero")
873 modulus operations are not performed. The (pre-generated) prime
874 table crypto/bn/bn_prime.h was already correct, but it could not be
875 re-generated on some platforms because of the "division by zero"
876 situation in the script.
877 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
879 *) Update support for ECC-based TLS ciphersuites according to
880 draft-ietf-tls-ecc-03.txt: the KDF1 key derivation function with
881 SHA-1 now is only used for "small" curves (where the
882 representation of a field element takes up to 24 bytes); for
883 larger curves, the field element resulting from ECDH is directly
884 used as premaster secret.
885 [Douglas Stebila (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
887 *) Add code for kP+lQ timings to crypto/ec/ectest.c, and add SEC2
888 curve secp160r1 to the tests.
889 [Douglas Stebila (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
891 *) Add the possibility to load symbols globally with DSO.
892 [Götz Babin-Ebell <babin-ebell@trustcenter.de> via Richard Levitte]
894 *) Add the functions ERR_set_mark() and ERR_pop_to_mark() for better
895 control of the error stack.
898 *) Add support for STORE in ENGINE.
901 *) Add the STORE type. The intention is to provide a common interface
902 to certificate and key stores, be they simple file-based stores, or
903 HSM-type store, or LDAP stores, or...
904 NOTE: The code is currently UNTESTED and isn't really used anywhere.
907 *) Add a generic structure called OPENSSL_ITEM. This can be used to
908 pass a list of arguments to any function as well as provide a way
909 for a function to pass data back to the caller.
912 *) Add the functions BUF_strndup() and BUF_memdup(). BUF_strndup()
913 works like BUF_strdup() but can be used to duplicate a portion of
914 a string. The copy gets NUL-terminated. BUF_memdup() duplicates
918 *) Add the function sk_find_ex() which works like sk_find(), but will
919 return an index to an element even if an exact match couldn't be
920 found. The index is guaranteed to point at the element where the
921 searched-for key would be inserted to preserve sorting order.
924 *) Add the function OBJ_bsearch_ex() which works like OBJ_bsearch() but
925 takes an extra flags argument for optional functionality. Currently,
926 the following flags are defined:
928 OBJ_BSEARCH_VALUE_ON_NOMATCH
929 This one gets OBJ_bsearch_ex() to return a pointer to the first
930 element where the comparing function returns a negative or zero
933 OBJ_BSEARCH_FIRST_VALUE_ON_MATCH
934 This one gets OBJ_bsearch_ex() to return a pointer to the first
935 element where the comparing function returns zero. This is useful
936 if there are more than one element where the comparing function
940 *) Make it possible to create self-signed certificates with 'openssl ca'
941 in such a way that the self-signed certificate becomes part of the
942 CA database and uses the same mechanisms for serial number generation
943 as all other certificate signing. The new flag '-selfsign' enables
944 this functionality. Adapt CA.sh and CA.pl.in.
947 *) Add functionality to check the public key of a certificate request
948 against a given private. This is useful to check that a certificate
949 request can be signed by that key (self-signing).
952 *) Make it possible to have multiple active certificates with the same
953 subject in the CA index file. This is done only if the keyword
954 'unique_subject' is set to 'no' in the main CA section (default
955 if 'CA_default') of the configuration file. The value is saved
956 with the database itself in a separate index attribute file,
957 named like the index file with '.attr' appended to the name.
960 *) Generate muti valued AVAs using '+' notation in config files for
964 *) Support for nameConstraints certificate extension.
967 *) Support for policyConstraints certificate extension.
970 *) Support for policyMappings certificate extension.
973 *) Make sure the default DSA_METHOD implementation only uses its
974 dsa_mod_exp() and/or bn_mod_exp() handlers if they are non-NULL,
975 and change its own handlers to be NULL so as to remove unnecessary
976 indirection. This lets alternative implementations fallback to the
977 default implementation more easily.
980 *) Support for directoryName in GeneralName related extensions
984 *) Make it possible to link applications using Makefile.shared.
985 Make that possible even when linking against static libraries!
988 *) Support for single pass processing for S/MIME signing. This now
989 means that S/MIME signing can be done from a pipe, in addition
990 cleartext signing (multipart/signed type) is effectively streaming
991 and the signed data does not need to be all held in memory.
993 This is done with a new flag PKCS7_STREAM. When this flag is set
994 PKCS7_sign() only initializes the PKCS7 structure and the actual signing
995 is done after the data is output (and digests calculated) in
999 *) Add full support for -rpath/-R, both in shared libraries and
1000 applications, at least on the platforms where it's known how
1004 *) In crypto/ec/ec_mult.c, implement fast point multiplication with
1005 precomputation, based on wNAF splitting: EC_GROUP_precompute_mult()
1006 will now compute a table of multiples of the generator that
1007 makes subsequent invocations of EC_POINTs_mul() or EC_POINT_mul()
1008 faster (notably in the case of a single point multiplication,
1009 scalar * generator).
1010 [Nils Larsch, Bodo Moeller]
1012 *) IPv6 support for certificate extensions. The various extensions
1013 which use the IP:a.b.c.d can now take IPv6 addresses using the
1014 formats of RFC1884 2.2 . IPv6 addresses are now also displayed
1018 *) Added an ENGINE that implements RSA by performing private key
1019 exponentiations with the GMP library. The conversions to and from
1020 GMP's mpz_t format aren't optimised nor are any montgomery forms
1021 cached, and on x86 it appears OpenSSL's own performance has caught up.
1022 However there are likely to be other architectures where GMP could
1023 provide a boost. This ENGINE is not built in by default, but it can be
1024 specified at Configure time and should be accompanied by the necessary
1025 linker additions, eg;
1026 ./config -DOPENSSL_USE_GMP -lgmp
1029 *) "openssl engine" will not display ENGINE/DSO load failure errors when
1030 testing availability of engines with "-t" - the old behaviour is
1031 produced by increasing the feature's verbosity with "-tt".
1034 *) ECDSA routines: under certain error conditions uninitialized BN objects
1035 could be freed. Solution: make sure initialization is performed early
1036 enough. (Reported and fix supplied by Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de>
1040 *) Key-generation can now be implemented in RSA_METHOD, DSA_METHOD
1041 and DH_METHOD (eg. by ENGINE implementations) to override the normal
1042 software implementations. For DSA and DH, parameter generation can
1043 also be overriden by providing the appropriate method callbacks.
1046 *) Change the "progress" mechanism used in key-generation and
1047 primality testing to functions that take a new BN_GENCB pointer in
1048 place of callback/argument pairs. The new API functions have "_ex"
1049 postfixes and the older functions are reimplemented as wrappers for
1050 the new ones. The OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED symbol can be used to hide
1051 declarations of the old functions to help (graceful) attempts to
1052 migrate to the new functions. Also, the new key-generation API
1053 functions operate on a caller-supplied key-structure and return
1054 success/failure rather than returning a key or NULL - this is to
1055 help make "keygen" another member function of RSA_METHOD etc.
1057 Example for using the new callback interface:
1059 int (*my_callback)(int a, int b, BN_GENCB *cb) = ...;
1063 BN_GENCB_set(&my_cb, my_callback, my_arg);
1065 return BN_is_prime_ex(some_bignum, BN_prime_checks, NULL, &cb);
1066 /* For the meaning of a, b in calls to my_callback(), see the
1067 * documentation of the function that calls the callback.
1068 * cb will point to my_cb; my_arg can be retrieved as cb->arg.
1069 * my_callback should return 1 if it wants BN_is_prime_ex()
1070 * to continue, or 0 to stop.
1075 *) Change the ZLIB compression method to be stateful, and make it
1076 available to TLS with the number defined in
1077 draft-ietf-tls-compression-04.txt.
1080 *) Add the ASN.1 structures and functions for CertificatePair, which
1081 is defined as follows (according to X.509_4thEditionDraftV6.pdf):
1083 CertificatePair ::= SEQUENCE {
1084 forward [0] Certificate OPTIONAL,
1085 reverse [1] Certificate OPTIONAL,
1086 -- at least one of the pair shall be present -- }
1088 Also implement the PEM functions to read and write certificate
1089 pairs, and defined the PEM tag as "CERTIFICATE PAIR".
1091 This needed to be defined, mostly for the sake of the LDAP
1092 attribute crossCertificatePair, but may prove useful elsewhere as
1096 *) Make it possible to inhibit symlinking of shared libraries in
1097 Makefile.shared, for Cygwin's sake.
1100 *) Extend the BIGNUM API by creating a function
1101 void BN_set_negative(BIGNUM *a, int neg);
1102 and a macro that behave like
1103 int BN_is_negative(const BIGNUM *a);
1105 to avoid the need to access 'a->neg' directly in applications.
1108 *) Implement fast modular reduction for pseudo-Mersenne primes
1109 used in NIST curves (crypto/bn/bn_nist.c, crypto/ec/ecp_nist.c).
1110 EC_GROUP_new_curve_GFp() will now automatically use this
1112 [Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de>]
1114 *) Add new lock type (CRYPTO_LOCK_BN).
1117 *) Change the ENGINE framework to automatically load engines
1118 dynamically from specific directories unless they could be
1119 found to already be built in or loaded. Move all the
1120 current engines except for the cryptodev one to a new
1122 The engines in engines/ are built as shared libraries if
1123 the "shared" options was given to ./Configure or ./config.
1124 Otherwise, they are inserted in libcrypto.a.
1125 /usr/local/ssl/engines is the default directory for dynamic
1126 engines, but that can be overriden at configure time through
1127 the usual use of --prefix and/or --openssldir, and at run
1128 time with the environment variable OPENSSL_ENGINES.
1129 [Geoff Thorpe and Richard Levitte]
1131 *) Add Makefile.shared, a helper makefile to build shared
1132 libraries. Addapt Makefile.org.
1135 *) Add version info to Win32 DLLs.
1136 [Peter 'Luna' Runestig" <peter@runestig.com>]
1138 *) Add new 'medium level' PKCS#12 API. Certificates and keys
1139 can be added using this API to created arbitrary PKCS#12
1140 files while avoiding the low level API.
1142 New options to PKCS12_create(), key or cert can be NULL and
1143 will then be omitted from the output file. The encryption
1144 algorithm NIDs can be set to -1 for no encryption, the mac
1145 iteration count can be set to 0 to omit the mac.
1147 Enhance pkcs12 utility by making the -nokeys and -nocerts
1148 options work when creating a PKCS#12 file. New option -nomac
1149 to omit the mac, NONE can be set for an encryption algorithm.
1150 New code is modified to use the enhanced PKCS12_create()
1151 instead of the low level API.
1154 *) Extend ASN1 encoder to support indefinite length constructed
1155 encoding. This can output sequences tags and octet strings in
1156 this form. Modify pk7_asn1.c to support indefinite length
1157 encoding. This is experimental and needs additional code to
1158 be useful, such as an ASN1 bio and some enhanced streaming
1161 Extend template encode functionality so that tagging is passed
1162 down to the template encoder.
1165 *) Let 'openssl req' fail if an argument to '-newkey' is not
1166 recognized instead of using RSA as a default.
1169 *) Add support for ECC-based ciphersuites from draft-ietf-tls-ecc-01.txt.
1170 As these are not official, they are not included in "ALL";
1171 the "ECCdraft" ciphersuite group alias can be used to select them.
1172 [Vipul Gupta and Sumit Gupta (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
1174 *) Add ECDH engine support.
1175 [Nils Gura and Douglas Stebila (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
1177 *) Add ECDH in new directory crypto/ecdh/.
1178 [Douglas Stebila (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
1180 *) Let BN_rand_range() abort with an error after 100 iterations
1181 without success (which indicates a broken PRNG).
1184 *) Change BN_mod_sqrt() so that it verifies that the input value
1185 is really the square of the return value. (Previously,
1186 BN_mod_sqrt would show GIGO behaviour.)
1189 *) Add named elliptic curves over binary fields from X9.62, SECG,
1190 and WAP/WTLS; add OIDs that were still missing.
1192 [Sheueling Chang Shantz and Douglas Stebila
1193 (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
1195 *) Extend the EC library for elliptic curves over binary fields
1196 (new files ec2_smpl.c, ec2_smpt.c, ec2_mult.c in crypto/ec/).
1199 EC_GF2m_simple_method
1203 EC_GROUP_new_curve_GF2m
1204 EC_GROUP_set_curve_GF2m
1205 EC_GROUP_get_curve_GF2m
1206 EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates_GF2m
1207 EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates_GF2m
1208 EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates_GF2m
1210 Point compression for binary fields is disabled by default for
1211 patent reasons (compile with OPENSSL_EC_BIN_PT_COMP defined to
1214 As binary polynomials are represented as BIGNUMs, various members
1215 of the EC_GROUP and EC_POINT data structures can be shared
1216 between the implementations for prime fields and binary fields;
1217 the above ..._GF2m functions (except for EX_GROUP_new_curve_GF2m)
1218 are essentially identical to their ..._GFp counterparts.
1219 (For simplicity, the '..._GFp' prefix has been dropped from
1220 various internal method names.)
1222 An internal 'field_div' method (similar to 'field_mul' and
1223 'field_sqr') has been added; this is used only for binary fields.
1225 [Sheueling Chang Shantz and Douglas Stebila
1226 (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
1228 *) Optionally dispatch EC_POINT_mul(), EC_POINT_precompute_mult()
1229 through methods ('mul', 'precompute_mult').
1231 The generic implementations (now internally called 'ec_wNAF_mul'
1232 and 'ec_wNAF_precomputed_mult') remain the default if these
1233 methods are undefined.
1235 [Sheueling Chang Shantz and Douglas Stebila
1236 (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
1238 *) New function EC_GROUP_get_degree, which is defined through
1239 EC_METHOD. For curves over prime fields, this returns the bit
1240 length of the modulus.
1242 [Sheueling Chang Shantz and Douglas Stebila
1243 (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
1245 *) New functions EC_GROUP_dup, EC_POINT_dup.
1246 (These simply call ..._new and ..._copy).
1248 [Sheueling Chang Shantz and Douglas Stebila
1249 (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
1251 *) Add binary polynomial arithmetic software in crypto/bn/bn_gf2m.c.
1252 Polynomials are represented as BIGNUMs (where the sign bit is not
1253 used) in the following functions [macros]:
1256 BN_GF2m_sub [= BN_GF2m_add]
1257 BN_GF2m_mod [wrapper for BN_GF2m_mod_arr]
1258 BN_GF2m_mod_mul [wrapper for BN_GF2m_mod_mul_arr]
1259 BN_GF2m_mod_sqr [wrapper for BN_GF2m_mod_sqr_arr]
1261 BN_GF2m_mod_exp [wrapper for BN_GF2m_mod_exp_arr]
1262 BN_GF2m_mod_sqrt [wrapper for BN_GF2m_mod_sqrt_arr]
1263 BN_GF2m_mod_solve_quad [wrapper for BN_GF2m_mod_solve_quad_arr]
1264 BN_GF2m_cmp [= BN_ucmp]
1266 (Note that only the 'mod' functions are actually for fields GF(2^m).
1267 BN_GF2m_add() is misnomer, but this is for the sake of consistency.)
1269 For some functions, an the irreducible polynomial defining a
1270 field can be given as an 'unsigned int[]' with strictly
1271 decreasing elements giving the indices of those bits that are set;
1272 i.e., p[] represents the polynomial
1273 f(t) = t^p[0] + t^p[1] + ... + t^p[k]
1275 p[0] > p[1] > ... > p[k] = 0.
1276 This applies to the following functions:
1281 BN_GF2m_mod_inv_arr [wrapper for BN_GF2m_mod_inv]
1282 BN_GF2m_mod_div_arr [wrapper for BN_GF2m_mod_div]
1284 BN_GF2m_mod_sqrt_arr
1285 BN_GF2m_mod_solve_quad_arr
1289 Conversion can be performed by the following functions:
1294 bntest.c has additional tests for binary polynomial arithmetic.
1296 Two implementations for BN_GF2m_mod_div() are available.
1297 The default algorithm simply uses BN_GF2m_mod_inv() and
1298 BN_GF2m_mod_mul(). The alternative algorithm is compiled in only
1299 if OPENSSL_SUN_GF2M_DIV is defined (patent pending; read the
1300 copyright notice in crypto/bn/bn_gf2m.c before enabling it).
1302 [Sheueling Chang Shantz and Douglas Stebila
1303 (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
1305 *) Add new error code 'ERR_R_DISABLED' that can be used when some
1306 functionality is disabled at compile-time.
1307 [Douglas Stebila <douglas.stebila@sun.com>]
1309 *) Change default behaviour of 'openssl asn1parse' so that more
1310 information is visible when viewing, e.g., a certificate:
1312 Modify asn1_parse2 (crypto/asn1/asn1_par.c) so that in non-'dump'
1313 mode the content of non-printable OCTET STRINGs is output in a
1314 style similar to INTEGERs, but with '[HEX DUMP]' prepended to
1315 avoid the appearance of a printable string.
1316 [Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de>]
1318 *) Add 'asn1_flag' and 'asn1_form' member to EC_GROUP with access
1320 EC_GROUP_set_asn1_flag()
1321 EC_GROUP_get_asn1_flag()
1322 EC_GROUP_set_point_conversion_form()
1323 EC_GROUP_get_point_conversion_form()
1324 These control ASN1 encoding details:
1325 - Curves (i.e., groups) are encoded explicitly unless asn1_flag
1326 has been set to OPENSSL_EC_NAMED_CURVE.
1327 - Points are encoded in uncompressed form by default; options for
1328 asn1_for are as for point2oct, namely
1329 POINT_CONVERSION_COMPRESSED
1330 POINT_CONVERSION_UNCOMPRESSED
1331 POINT_CONVERSION_HYBRID
1333 Also add 'seed' and 'seed_len' members to EC_GROUP with access
1336 EC_GROUP_get0_seed()
1337 EC_GROUP_get_seed_len()
1338 This is used only for ASN1 purposes (so far).
1339 [Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de>]
1341 *) Add 'field_type' member to EC_METHOD, which holds the NID
1342 of the appropriate field type OID. The new function
1343 EC_METHOD_get_field_type() returns this value.
1344 [Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de>]
1349 EC_POINT_point2hex()
1350 EC_POINT_hex2point()
1351 providing useful interfaces to EC_POINT_point2oct() and
1352 EC_POINT_oct2point().
1353 [Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de>]
1355 *) Change internals of the EC library so that the functions
1356 EC_GROUP_set_generator()
1357 EC_GROUP_get_generator()
1358 EC_GROUP_get_order()
1359 EC_GROUP_get_cofactor()
1360 are implemented directly in crypto/ec/ec_lib.c and not dispatched
1361 to methods, which would lead to unnecessary code duplication when
1362 adding different types of curves.
1363 [Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de> with input by Bodo Moeller]
1365 *) Implement compute_wNAF (crypto/ec/ec_mult.c) without BIGNUM
1366 arithmetic, and such that modified wNAFs are generated
1367 (which avoid length expansion in many cases).
1370 *) Add a function EC_GROUP_check_discriminant() (defined via
1371 EC_METHOD) that verifies that the curve discriminant is non-zero.
1373 Add a function EC_GROUP_check() that makes some sanity tests
1374 on a EC_GROUP, its generator and order. This includes
1375 EC_GROUP_check_discriminant().
1376 [Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de>]
1378 *) Add ECDSA in new directory crypto/ecdsa/.
1380 Add applications 'openssl ecparam' and 'openssl ecdsa'
1381 (these are based on 'openssl dsaparam' and 'openssl dsa').
1383 ECDSA support is also included in various other files across the
1384 library. Most notably,
1385 - 'openssl req' now has a '-newkey ecdsa:file' option;
1386 - EVP_PKCS82PKEY (crypto/evp/evp_pkey.c) now can handle ECDSA;
1387 - X509_PUBKEY_get (crypto/asn1/x_pubkey.c) and
1388 d2i_PublicKey (crypto/asn1/d2i_pu.c) have been modified to make
1389 them suitable for ECDSA where domain parameters must be
1390 extracted before the specific public key;
1391 - ECDSA engine support has been added.
1392 [Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de>]
1394 *) Include some named elliptic curves, and add OIDs from X9.62,
1395 SECG, and WAP/WTLS. Each curve can be obtained from the new
1397 EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name(),
1398 and the list of available named curves can be obtained with
1399 EC_get_builtin_curves().
1400 Also add a 'curve_name' member to EC_GROUP objects, which can be
1402 EC_GROUP_set_curve_name()
1403 EC_GROUP_get_curve_name()
1404 [Nils Larsch <larsch@trustcenter.de, Bodo Moeller]
1406 *) Remove a few calls to bn_wexpand() in BN_sqr() (the one in there
1407 was actually never needed) and in BN_mul(). The removal in BN_mul()
1408 required a small change in bn_mul_part_recursive() and the addition
1409 of the functions bn_cmp_part_words(), bn_sub_part_words() and
1410 bn_add_part_words(), which do the same thing as bn_cmp_words(),
1411 bn_sub_words() and bn_add_words() except they take arrays with
1415 Changes between 0.9.7k and 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]
1417 *) Introduce limits to prevent malicious keys being able to
1418 cause a denial of service. (CVE-2006-2940)
1419 [Steve Henson, Bodo Moeller]
1421 *) Fix ASN.1 parsing of certain invalid structures that can result
1422 in a denial of service. (CVE-2006-2937) [Steve Henson]
1424 *) Fix buffer overflow in SSL_get_shared_ciphers() function.
1425 (CVE-2006-3738) [Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry, Google Security Team]
1427 *) Fix SSL client code which could crash if connecting to a
1428 malicious SSLv2 server. (CVE-2006-4343)
1429 [Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry, Google Security Team]
1431 *) Change ciphersuite string processing so that an explicit
1432 ciphersuite selects this one ciphersuite (so that "AES256-SHA"
1433 will no longer include "AES128-SHA"), and any other similar
1434 ciphersuite (same bitmap) from *other* protocol versions (so that
1435 "RC4-MD5" will still include both the SSL 2.0 ciphersuite and the
1436 SSL 3.0/TLS 1.0 ciphersuite). This is a backport combining
1437 changes from 0.9.8b and 0.9.8d.
1440 Changes between 0.9.7j and 0.9.7k [05 Sep 2006]
1442 *) Avoid PKCS #1 v1.5 signature attack discovered by Daniel Bleichenbacher
1443 (CVE-2006-4339) [Ben Laurie and Google Security Team]
1445 *) Change the Unix randomness entropy gathering to use poll() when
1446 possible instead of select(), since the latter has some
1447 undesirable limitations.
1448 [Darryl Miles via Richard Levitte and Bodo Moeller]
1450 *) Disable rogue ciphersuites:
1452 - SSLv2 0x08 0x00 0x80 ("RC4-64-MD5")
1453 - SSLv3/TLSv1 0x00 0x61 ("EXP1024-RC2-CBC-MD5")
1454 - SSLv3/TLSv1 0x00 0x60 ("EXP1024-RC4-MD5")
1456 The latter two were purportedly from
1457 draft-ietf-tls-56-bit-ciphersuites-0[01].txt, but do not really
1460 Also deactive the remaining ciphersuites from
1461 draft-ietf-tls-56-bit-ciphersuites-01.txt. These are just as
1462 unofficial, and the ID has long expired.
1465 *) Fix RSA blinding Heisenbug (problems sometimes occured on
1466 dual-core machines) and other potential thread-safety issues.
1469 Changes between 0.9.7i and 0.9.7j [04 May 2006]
1471 *) Adapt fipsld and the build system to link against the validated FIPS
1472 module in FIPS mode.
1475 *) Fixes for VC++ 2005 build under Windows.
1478 *) Add new Windows build target VC-32-GMAKE for VC++. This uses GNU make
1479 from a Windows bash shell such as MSYS. It is autodetected from the
1480 "config" script when run from a VC++ environment. Modify standard VC++
1481 build to use fipscanister.o from the GNU make build.
1484 Changes between 0.9.7h and 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]
1486 *) Wrapped the definition of EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE in a #ifdef OPENSSL_FIPS.
1487 The value now differs depending on if you build for FIPS or not.
1488 BEWARE! A program linked with a shared FIPSed libcrypto can't be
1489 safely run with a non-FIPSed libcrypto, as it may crash because of
1490 the difference induced by this change.
1493 Changes between 0.9.7g and 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]
1495 *) Remove the functionality of SSL_OP_MSIE_SSLV2_RSA_PADDING
1496 (part of SSL_OP_ALL). This option used to disable the
1497 countermeasure against man-in-the-middle protocol-version
1498 rollback in the SSL 2.0 server implementation, which is a bad
1499 idea. (CVE-2005-2969)
1501 [Bodo Moeller; problem pointed out by Yutaka Oiwa (Research Center
1502 for Information Security, National Institute of Advanced Industrial
1503 Science and Technology [AIST], Japan)]
1505 *) Minimal support for X9.31 signatures and PSS padding modes. This is
1506 mainly for FIPS compliance and not fully integrated at this stage.
1509 *) For DSA signing, unless DSA_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME is set, perform
1510 the exponentiation using a fixed-length exponent. (Otherwise,
1511 the information leaked through timing could expose the secret key
1512 after many signatures; cf. Bleichenbacher's attack on DSA with
1516 *) Make a new fixed-window mod_exp implementation the default for
1517 RSA, DSA, and DH private-key operations so that the sequence of
1518 squares and multiplies and the memory access pattern are
1519 independent of the particular secret key. This will mitigate
1520 cache-timing and potential related attacks.
1522 BN_mod_exp_mont_consttime() is the new exponentiation implementation,
1523 and this is automatically used by BN_mod_exp_mont() if the new flag
1524 BN_FLG_EXP_CONSTTIME is set for the exponent. RSA, DSA, and DH
1525 will use this BN flag for private exponents unless the flag
1526 RSA_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME, DSA_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME, or
1527 DH_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME, respectively, is set.
1529 [Matthew D Wood (Intel Corp), with some changes by Bodo Moeller]
1531 *) Change the client implementation for SSLv23_method() and
1532 SSLv23_client_method() so that is uses the SSL 3.0/TLS 1.0
1533 Client Hello message format if the SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2 option is set.
1534 (Previously, the SSL 2.0 backwards compatible Client Hello
1535 message format would be used even with SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2.)
1538 *) Add support for smime-type MIME parameter in S/MIME messages which some
1542 *) New function BN_MONT_CTX_set_locked() to set montgomery parameters in
1543 a threadsafe manner. Modify rsa code to use new function and add calls
1544 to dsa and dh code (which had race conditions before).
1547 *) Include the fixed error library code in the C error file definitions
1548 instead of fixing them up at runtime. This keeps the error code
1549 structures constant.
1552 Changes between 0.9.7f and 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]
1554 [NB: OpenSSL 0.9.7h and later 0.9.7 patch levels were released after
1557 *) Fixes for newer kerberos headers. NB: the casts are needed because
1558 the 'length' field is signed on one version and unsigned on another
1559 with no (?) obvious way to tell the difference, without these VC++
1560 complains. Also the "definition" of FAR (blank) is no longer included
1561 nor is the error ENOMEM. KRB5_PRIVATE has to be set to 1 to pick up
1562 some needed definitions.
1565 *) Undo Cygwin change.
1568 *) Added support for proxy certificates according to RFC 3820.
1569 Because they may be a security thread to unaware applications,
1570 they must be explicitely allowed in run-time. See
1571 docs/HOWTO/proxy_certificates.txt for further information.
1574 Changes between 0.9.7e and 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]
1576 *) Use (SSL_RANDOM_VALUE - 4) bytes of pseudo random data when generating
1577 server and client random values. Previously
1578 (SSL_RANDOM_VALUE - sizeof(time_t)) would be used which would result in
1579 less random data when sizeof(time_t) > 4 (some 64 bit platforms).
1581 This change has negligible security impact because:
1583 1. Server and client random values still have 24 bytes of pseudo random
1586 2. Server and client random values are sent in the clear in the initial
1589 3. The master secret is derived using the premaster secret (48 bytes in
1590 size for static RSA ciphersuites) as well as client server and random
1593 The OpenSSL team would like to thank the UK NISCC for bringing this issue
1596 [Stephen Henson, reported by UK NISCC]
1598 *) Use Windows randomness collection on Cygwin.
1601 *) Fix hang in EGD/PRNGD query when communication socket is closed
1602 prematurely by EGD/PRNGD.
1603 [Darren Tucker <dtucker@zip.com.au> via Lutz Jänicke, resolves #1014]
1605 *) Prompt for pass phrases when appropriate for PKCS12 input format.
1608 *) Back-port of selected performance improvements from development
1609 branch, as well as improved support for PowerPC platforms.
1612 *) Add lots of checks for memory allocation failure, error codes to indicate
1613 failure and freeing up memory if a failure occurs.
1614 [Nauticus Networks SSL Team <openssl@nauticusnet.com>, Steve Henson]
1616 *) Add new -passin argument to dgst.
1619 *) Perform some character comparisons of different types in X509_NAME_cmp:
1620 this is needed for some certificates that reencode DNs into UTF8Strings
1621 (in violation of RFC3280) and can't or wont issue name rollover
1625 *) Make an explicit check during certificate validation to see that
1626 the CA setting in each certificate on the chain is correct. As a
1627 side effect always do the following basic checks on extensions,
1628 not just when there's an associated purpose to the check:
1630 - if there is an unhandled critical extension (unless the user
1631 has chosen to ignore this fault)
1632 - if the path length has been exceeded (if one is set at all)
1633 - that certain extensions fit the associated purpose (if one has
1637 Changes between 0.9.7d and 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]
1639 *) Avoid a race condition when CRLs are checked in a multi threaded
1640 environment. This would happen due to the reordering of the revoked
1641 entries during signature checking and serial number lookup. Now the
1642 encoding is cached and the serial number sort performed under a lock.
1643 Add new STACK function sk_is_sorted().
1646 *) Add Delta CRL to the extension code.
1649 *) Various fixes to s3_pkt.c so alerts are sent properly.
1650 [David Holmes <d.holmes@f5.com>]
1652 *) Reduce the chances of duplicate issuer name and serial numbers (in
1653 violation of RFC3280) using the OpenSSL certificate creation utilities.
1654 This is done by creating a random 64 bit value for the initial serial
1655 number when a serial number file is created or when a self signed
1656 certificate is created using 'openssl req -x509'. The initial serial
1657 number file is created using 'openssl x509 -next_serial' in CA.pl
1658 rather than being initialized to 1.
1661 Changes between 0.9.7c and 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]
1663 *) Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec() revealed
1664 by using the Codenomicon TLS Test Tool (CVE-2004-0079)
1665 [Joe Orton, Steve Henson]
1667 *) Fix flaw in SSL/TLS handshaking when using Kerberos ciphersuites
1669 [Joe Orton, Steve Henson]
1671 *) Make it possible to have multiple active certificates with the same
1672 subject in the CA index file. This is done only if the keyword
1673 'unique_subject' is set to 'no' in the main CA section (default
1674 if 'CA_default') of the configuration file. The value is saved
1675 with the database itself in a separate index attribute file,
1676 named like the index file with '.attr' appended to the name.
1679 *) X509 verify fixes. Disable broken certificate workarounds when
1680 X509_V_FLAGS_X509_STRICT is set. Check CRL issuer has cRLSign set if
1681 keyUsage extension present. Don't accept CRLs with unhandled critical
1682 extensions: since verify currently doesn't process CRL extensions this
1683 rejects a CRL with *any* critical extensions. Add new verify error codes
1687 *) When creating an OCSP nonce use an OCTET STRING inside the extnValue.
1688 A clarification of RFC2560 will require the use of OCTET STRINGs and
1689 some implementations cannot handle the current raw format. Since OpenSSL
1690 copies and compares OCSP nonces as opaque blobs without any attempt at
1691 parsing them this should not create any compatibility issues.
1694 *) New md flag EVP_MD_CTX_FLAG_REUSE this allows md_data to be reused when
1695 calling EVP_MD_CTX_copy_ex() to avoid calling OPENSSL_malloc(). Without
1696 this HMAC (and other) operations are several times slower than OpenSSL
1700 *) Print out GeneralizedTime and UTCTime in ASN1_STRING_print_ex().
1701 [Peter Sylvester <Peter.Sylvester@EdelWeb.fr>]
1703 *) Use the correct content when signing type "other".
1706 Changes between 0.9.7b and 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]
1708 *) Fix various bugs revealed by running the NISCC test suite:
1710 Stop out of bounds reads in the ASN1 code when presented with
1711 invalid tags (CVE-2003-0543 and CVE-2003-0544).
1713 Free up ASN1_TYPE correctly if ANY type is invalid (CVE-2003-0545).
1715 If verify callback ignores invalid public key errors don't try to check
1716 certificate signature with the NULL public key.
1720 *) New -ignore_err option in ocsp application to stop the server
1721 exiting on the first error in a request.
1724 *) In ssl3_accept() (ssl/s3_srvr.c) only accept a client certificate
1725 if the server requested one: as stated in TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0
1729 *) In ssl3_get_client_hello() (ssl/s3_srvr.c), tolerate additional
1730 extra data after the compression methods not only for TLS 1.0
1731 but also for SSL 3.0 (as required by the specification).
1732 [Bodo Moeller; problem pointed out by Matthias Loepfe]
1734 *) Change X509_certificate_type() to mark the key as exported/exportable
1735 when it's 512 *bits* long, not 512 bytes.
1738 *) Change AES_cbc_encrypt() so it outputs exact multiple of
1739 blocks during encryption.
1742 *) Various fixes to base64 BIO and non blocking I/O. On write
1743 flushes were not handled properly if the BIO retried. On read
1744 data was not being buffered properly and had various logic bugs.
1745 This also affects blocking I/O when the data being decoded is a
1749 *) Various S/MIME bugfixes and compatibility changes:
1750 output correct application/pkcs7 MIME type if
1751 PKCS7_NOOLDMIMETYPE is set. Tolerate some broken signatures.
1752 Output CR+LF for EOL if PKCS7_CRLFEOL is set (this makes opening
1753 of files as .eml work). Correctly handle very long lines in MIME
1757 Changes between 0.9.7a and 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]
1759 *) Countermeasure against the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
1760 Bleichbacher's attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 padding: treat
1761 a protocol version number mismatch like a decryption error
1762 in ssl3_get_client_key_exchange (ssl/s3_srvr.c).
1765 *) Turn on RSA blinding by default in the default implementation
1766 to avoid a timing attack. Applications that don't want it can call
1767 RSA_blinding_off() or use the new flag RSA_FLAG_NO_BLINDING.
1768 They would be ill-advised to do so in most cases.
1769 [Ben Laurie, Steve Henson, Geoff Thorpe, Bodo Moeller]
1771 *) Change RSA blinding code so that it works when the PRNG is not
1772 seeded (in this case, the secret RSA exponent is abused as
1773 an unpredictable seed -- if it is not unpredictable, there
1774 is no point in blinding anyway). Make RSA blinding thread-safe
1775 by remembering the creator's thread ID in rsa->blinding and
1776 having all other threads use local one-time blinding factors
1777 (this requires more computation than sharing rsa->blinding, but
1778 avoids excessive locking; and if an RSA object is not shared
1779 between threads, blinding will still be very fast).
1782 *) Fixed a typo bug that would cause ENGINE_set_default() to set an
1783 ENGINE as defaults for all supported algorithms irrespective of
1784 the 'flags' parameter. 'flags' is now honoured, so applications
1785 should make sure they are passing it correctly.
1788 *) Target "mingw" now allows native Windows code to be generated in
1789 the Cygwin environment as well as with the MinGW compiler.
1792 Changes between 0.9.7 and 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]
1794 *) In ssl3_get_record (ssl/s3_pkt.c), minimize information leaked
1795 via timing by performing a MAC computation even if incorrrect
1796 block cipher padding has been found. This is a countermeasure
1797 against active attacks where the attacker has to distinguish
1798 between bad padding and a MAC verification error. (CVE-2003-0078)
1800 [Bodo Moeller; problem pointed out by Brice Canvel (EPFL),
1801 Alain Hiltgen (UBS), Serge Vaudenay (EPFL), and
1802 Martin Vuagnoux (EPFL, Ilion)]
1804 *) Make the no-err option work as intended. The intention with no-err
1805 is not to have the whole error stack handling routines removed from
1806 libcrypto, it's only intended to remove all the function name and
1807 reason texts, thereby removing some of the footprint that may not
1808 be interesting if those errors aren't displayed anyway.
1810 NOTE: it's still possible for any application or module to have it's
1811 own set of error texts inserted. The routines are there, just not
1812 used by default when no-err is given.
1815 *) Add support for FreeBSD on IA64.
1816 [dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org via Richard Levitte, resolves #454]
1818 *) Adjust DES_cbc_cksum() so it returns the same value as the MIT
1819 Kerberos function mit_des_cbc_cksum(). Before this change,
1820 the value returned by DES_cbc_cksum() was like the one from
1821 mit_des_cbc_cksum(), except the bytes were swapped.
1822 [Kevin Greaney <Kevin.Greaney@hp.com> and Richard Levitte]
1824 *) Allow an application to disable the automatic SSL chain building.
1825 Before this a rather primitive chain build was always performed in
1826 ssl3_output_cert_chain(): an application had no way to send the
1827 correct chain if the automatic operation produced an incorrect result.
1829 Now the chain builder is disabled if either:
1831 1. Extra certificates are added via SSL_CTX_add_extra_chain_cert().
1833 2. The mode flag SSL_MODE_NO_AUTO_CHAIN is set.
1835 The reasoning behind this is that an application would not want the
1836 auto chain building to take place if extra chain certificates are
1837 present and it might also want a means of sending no additional
1838 certificates (for example the chain has two certificates and the
1842 *) Add the possibility to build without the ENGINE framework.
1843 [Steven Reddie <smr@essemer.com.au> via Richard Levitte]
1845 *) Under Win32 gmtime() can return NULL: check return value in
1846 OPENSSL_gmtime(). Add error code for case where gmtime() fails.
1849 *) DSA routines: under certain error conditions uninitialized BN objects
1850 could be freed. Solution: make sure initialization is performed early
1851 enough. (Reported and fix supplied by Ivan D Nestlerode <nestler@MIT.EDU>,
1852 Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de> via PR#459)
1855 *) Another fix for SSLv2 session ID handling: the session ID was incorrectly
1856 checked on reconnect on the client side, therefore session resumption
1857 could still fail with a "ssl session id is different" error. This
1858 behaviour is masked when SSL_OP_ALL is used due to
1859 SSL_OP_MICROSOFT_SESS_ID_BUG being set.
1860 Behaviour observed by Crispin Flowerday <crispin@flowerday.cx> as
1861 followup to PR #377.
1864 *) IA-32 assembler support enhancements: unified ELF targets, support
1865 for SCO/Caldera platforms, fix for Cygwin shared build.
1868 *) Add support for FreeBSD on sparc64. As a consequence, support for
1869 FreeBSD on non-x86 processors is separate from x86 processors on
1870 the config script, much like the NetBSD support.
1871 [Richard Levitte & Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>]
1873 Changes between 0.9.6h and 0.9.7 [31 Dec 2002]
1875 [NB: OpenSSL 0.9.6i and later 0.9.6 patch levels were released after
1878 *) Fix session ID handling in SSLv2 client code: the SERVER FINISHED
1879 code (06) was taken as the first octet of the session ID and the last
1880 octet was ignored consequently. As a result SSLv2 client side session
1881 caching could not have worked due to the session ID mismatch between
1883 Behaviour observed by Crispin Flowerday <crispin@flowerday.cx> as
1887 *) Change the declaration of needed Kerberos libraries to use EX_LIBS
1888 instead of the special (and badly supported) LIBKRB5. LIBKRB5 is
1892 *) The hw_ncipher.c engine requires dynamic locks. Unfortunately, it
1893 seems that in spite of existing for more than a year, many application
1894 author have done nothing to provide the necessary callbacks, which
1895 means that this particular engine will not work properly anywhere.
1896 This is a very unfortunate situation which forces us, in the name
1897 of usability, to give the hw_ncipher.c a static lock, which is part
1899 NOTE: This is for the 0.9.7 series ONLY. This hack will never
1900 appear in 0.9.8 or later. We EXPECT application authors to have
1901 dealt properly with this when 0.9.8 is released (unless we actually
1902 make such changes in the libcrypto locking code that changes will
1903 have to be made anyway).
1906 *) In asn1_d2i_read_bio() repeatedly call BIO_read() until all content
1907 octets have been read, EOF or an error occurs. Without this change
1908 some truncated ASN1 structures will not produce an error.
1911 *) Disable Heimdal support, since it hasn't been fully implemented.
1912 Still give the possibility to force the use of Heimdal, but with
1913 warnings and a request that patches get sent to openssl-dev.
1916 *) Add the VC-CE target, introduce the WINCE sysname, and add
1917 INSTALL.WCE and appropriate conditionals to make it build.
1918 [Steven Reddie <smr@essemer.com.au> via Richard Levitte]
1920 *) Change the DLL names for Cygwin to cygcrypto-x.y.z.dll and
1921 cygssl-x.y.z.dll, where x, y and z are the major, minor and
1922 edit numbers of the version.
1923 [Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> and Richard Levitte]
1925 *) Introduce safe string copy and catenation functions
1926 (BUF_strlcpy() and BUF_strlcat()).
1927 [Ben Laurie (CHATS) and Richard Levitte]
1929 *) Avoid using fixed-size buffers for one-line DNs.
1930 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1932 *) Add BUF_MEM_grow_clean() to avoid information leakage when
1933 resizing buffers containing secrets, and use where appropriate.
1934 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1936 *) Avoid using fixed size buffers for configuration file location.
1937 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1939 *) Avoid filename truncation for various CA files.
1940 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1942 *) Use sizeof in preference to magic numbers.
1943 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1945 *) Avoid filename truncation in cert requests.
1946 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1948 *) Add assertions to check for (supposedly impossible) buffer
1950 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1952 *) Don't cache truncated DNS entries in the local cache (this could
1953 potentially lead to a spoofing attack).
1954 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1956 *) Fix various buffers to be large enough for hex/decimal
1957 representations in a platform independent manner.
1958 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1960 *) Add CRYPTO_realloc_clean() to avoid information leakage when
1961 resizing buffers containing secrets, and use where appropriate.
1962 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1964 *) Add BIO_indent() to avoid much slightly worrying code to do
1966 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1968 *) Convert sprintf()/BIO_puts() to BIO_printf().
1969 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1971 *) buffer_gets() could terminate with the buffer only half
1973 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1975 *) Add assertions to prevent user-supplied crypto functions from
1976 overflowing internal buffers by having large block sizes, etc.
1977 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1979 *) New OPENSSL_assert() macro (similar to assert(), but enabled
1981 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1983 *) Eliminate unused copy of key in RC4.
1984 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1986 *) Eliminate unused and incorrectly sized buffers for IV in pem.h.
1987 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1989 *) Fix off-by-one error in EGD path.
1990 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1992 *) If RANDFILE path is too long, ignore instead of truncating.
1993 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1995 *) Eliminate unused and incorrectly sized X.509 structure
1997 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
1999 *) Eliminate unused and dangerous function knumber().
2000 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
2002 *) Eliminate unused and dangerous structure, KSSL_ERR.
2003 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
2005 *) Protect against overlong session ID context length in an encoded
2006 session object. Since these are local, this does not appear to be
2008 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
2010 *) Change from security patch (see 0.9.6e below) that did not affect
2011 the 0.9.6 release series:
2013 Remote buffer overflow in SSL3 protocol - an attacker could
2014 supply an oversized master key in Kerberos-enabled versions.
2016 [Ben Laurie (CHATS)]
2018 *) Change the SSL kerb5 codes to match RFC 2712.
2021 *) Make -nameopt work fully for req and add -reqopt switch.
2022 [Michael Bell <michael.bell@rz.hu-berlin.de>, Steve Henson]
2024 *) The "block size" for block ciphers in CFB and OFB mode should be 1.
2025 [Steve Henson, reported by Yngve Nysaeter Pettersen <yngve@opera.com>]
2027 *) Make sure tests can be performed even if the corresponding algorithms
2028 have been removed entirely. This was also the last step to make
2029 OpenSSL compilable with DJGPP under all reasonable conditions.
2030 [Richard Levitte, Doug Kaufman <dkaufman@rahul.net>]
2032 *) Add cipher selection rules COMPLEMENTOFALL and COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT
2033 to allow version independent disabling of normally unselected ciphers,
2034 which may be activated as a side-effect of selecting a single cipher.
2036 (E.g., cipher list string "RSA" enables ciphersuites that are left
2037 out of "ALL" because they do not provide symmetric encryption.
2038 "RSA:!COMPLEMEMENTOFALL" avoids these unsafe ciphersuites.)
2039 [Lutz Jaenicke, Bodo Moeller]
2041 *) Add appropriate support for separate platform-dependent build
2042 directories. The recommended way to make a platform-dependent
2043 build directory is the following (tested on Linux), maybe with
2046 # Place yourself outside of the OpenSSL source tree. In
2047 # this example, the environment variable OPENSSL_SOURCE
2048 # is assumed to contain the absolute OpenSSL source directory.
2049 mkdir -p objtree/"`uname -s`-`uname -r`-`uname -m`"
2050 cd objtree/"`uname -s`-`uname -r`-`uname -m`"
2051 (cd $OPENSSL_SOURCE; find . -type f) | while read F; do
2052 mkdir -p `dirname $F`
2053 ln -s $OPENSSL_SOURCE/$F $F
2056 To be absolutely sure not to disturb the source tree, a "make clean"
2057 is a good thing. If it isn't successfull, don't worry about it,
2058 it probably means the source directory is very clean.
2061 *) Make sure any ENGINE control commands make local copies of string
2062 pointers passed to them whenever necessary. Otherwise it is possible
2063 the caller may have overwritten (or deallocated) the original string
2064 data when a later ENGINE operation tries to use the stored values.
2065 [Götz Babin-Ebell <babinebell@trustcenter.de>]
2067 *) Improve diagnostics in file reading and command-line digests.
2068 [Ben Laurie aided and abetted by Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>]
2070 *) Add AES modes CFB and OFB to the object database. Correct an
2071 error in AES-CFB decryption.
2074 *) Remove most calls to EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cleanup() in evp_enc.c, this
2075 allows existing EVP_CIPHER_CTX structures to be reused after
2076 calling EVP_*Final(). This behaviour is used by encryption
2077 BIOs and some applications. This has the side effect that
2078 applications must explicitly clean up cipher contexts with
2079 EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cleanup() or they will leak memory.
2082 *) Check the values of dna and dnb in bn_mul_recursive before calling
2083 bn_mul_comba (a non zero value means the a or b arrays do not contain
2084 n2 elements) and fallback to bn_mul_normal if either is not zero.
2087 *) Fix escaping of non-ASCII characters when using the -subj option
2088 of the "openssl req" command line tool. (Robert Joop <joop@fokus.gmd.de>)
2091 *) Make object definitions compliant to LDAP (RFC2256): SN is the short
2092 form for "surname", serialNumber has no short form.
2093 Use "mail" as the short name for "rfc822Mailbox" according to RFC2798;
2094 therefore remove "mail" short name for "internet 7".
2095 The OID for unique identifiers in X509 certificates is
2096 x500UniqueIdentifier, not uniqueIdentifier.
2097 Some more OID additions. (Michael Bell <michael.bell@rz.hu-berlin.de>)
2100 *) Add an "init" command to the ENGINE config module and auto initialize
2101 ENGINEs. Without any "init" command the ENGINE will be initialized
2102 after all ctrl commands have been executed on it. If init=1 the
2103 ENGINE is initailized at that point (ctrls before that point are run
2104 on the uninitialized ENGINE and after on the initialized one). If
2105 init=0 then the ENGINE will not be iniatialized at all.
2108 *) Fix the 'app_verify_callback' interface so that the user-defined
2109 argument is actually passed to the callback: In the
2110 SSL_CTX_set_cert_verify_callback() prototype, the callback
2111 declaration has been changed from
2114 int (*cb)(X509_STORE_CTX *,void *);
2115 in ssl_verify_cert_chain (ssl/ssl_cert.c), the call
2116 i=s->ctx->app_verify_callback(&ctx)
2117 has been changed into
2118 i=s->ctx->app_verify_callback(&ctx, s->ctx->app_verify_arg).
2120 To update applications using SSL_CTX_set_cert_verify_callback(),
2121 a dummy argument can be added to their callback functions.
2122 [D. K. Smetters <smetters@parc.xerox.com>]
2124 *) Added the '4758cca' ENGINE to support IBM 4758 cards.
2125 [Maurice Gittens <maurice@gittens.nl>, touchups by Geoff Thorpe]
2127 *) Add and OPENSSL_LOAD_CONF define which will cause
2128 OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms() to load the openssl.cnf config file.
2129 This allows older applications to transparently support certain
2130 OpenSSL features: such as crypto acceleration and dynamic ENGINE loading.
2131 Two new functions OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms_noconf() which will never
2132 load the config file and OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms_conf() which will
2133 always load it have also been added.
2136 *) Add the OFB, CFB and CTR (all with 128 bit feedback) to AES.
2137 Adjust NIDs and EVP layer.
2138 [Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> and Richard Levitte]
2140 *) Config modules support in openssl utility.
2142 Most commands now load modules from the config file,
2143 though in a few (such as version) this isn't done
2144 because it couldn't be used for anything.
2146 In the case of ca and req the config file used is
2147 the same as the utility itself: that is the -config
2148 command line option can be used to specify an
2152 *) Move default behaviour from OPENSSL_config(). If appname is NULL
2153 use "openssl_conf" if filename is NULL use default openssl config file.
2156 *) Add an argument to OPENSSL_config() to allow the use of an alternative
2157 config section name. Add a new flag to tolerate a missing config file
2158 and move code to CONF_modules_load_file().
2161 *) Support for crypto accelerator cards from Accelerated Encryption
2162 Processing, www.aep.ie. (Use engine 'aep')
2163 The support was copied from 0.9.6c [engine] and adapted/corrected
2164 to work with the new engine framework.
2165 [AEP Inc. and Richard Levitte]
2167 *) Support for SureWare crypto accelerator cards from Baltimore
2168 Technologies. (Use engine 'sureware')
2169 The support was copied from 0.9.6c [engine] and adapted
2170 to work with the new engine framework.
2173 *) Have the CHIL engine fork-safe (as defined by nCipher) and actually
2174 make the newer ENGINE framework commands for the CHIL engine work.
2175 [Toomas Kiisk <vix@cyber.ee> and Richard Levitte]
2177 *) Make it possible to produce shared libraries on ReliantUNIX.
2178 [Robert Dahlem <Robert.Dahlem@ffm2.siemens.de> via Richard Levitte]
2180 *) Add the configuration target debug-linux-ppro.
2181 Make 'openssl rsa' use the general key loading routines
2182 implemented in apps.c, and make those routines able to
2183 handle the key format FORMAT_NETSCAPE and the variant
2185 [Toomas Kiisk <vix@cyber.ee> via Richard Levitte]
2187 *) Fix a crashbug and a logic bug in hwcrhk_load_pubkey().
2188 [Toomas Kiisk <vix@cyber.ee> via Richard Levitte]
2190 *) Add -keyform to rsautl, and document -engine.
2191 [Richard Levitte, inspired by Toomas Kiisk <vix@cyber.ee>]
2193 *) Change BIO_new_file (crypto/bio/bss_file.c) to use new
2194 BIO_R_NO_SUCH_FILE error code rather than the generic
2195 ERR_R_SYS_LIB error code if fopen() fails with ENOENT.
2198 *) Add new functions
2200 ERR_peek_last_error_line
2201 ERR_peek_last_error_line_data.
2202 These are similar to
2205 ERR_peek_error_line_data,
2206 but report on the latest error recorded rather than the first one
2207 still in the error queue.
2208 [Ben Laurie, Bodo Moeller]
2210 *) default_algorithms option in ENGINE config module. This allows things
2212 default_algorithms = ALL
2213 default_algorithms = RSA, DSA, RAND, CIPHERS, DIGESTS
2216 *) Prelminary ENGINE config module.
2219 *) New experimental application configuration code.
2222 *) Change the AES code to follow the same name structure as all other
2223 symmetric ciphers, and behave the same way. Move everything to
2224 the directory crypto/aes, thereby obsoleting crypto/rijndael.
2225 [Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> and Richard Levitte]
2227 *) SECURITY: remove unsafe setjmp/signal interaction from ui_openssl.c.
2228 [Ben Laurie and Theo de Raadt]
2230 *) Add option to output public keys in req command.
2231 [Massimiliano Pala madwolf@openca.org]
2233 *) Use wNAFs in EC_POINTs_mul() for improved efficiency
2234 (up to about 10% better than before for P-192 and P-224).
2237 *) New functions/macros
2239 SSL_CTX_set_msg_callback(ctx, cb)
2240 SSL_CTX_set_msg_callback_arg(ctx, arg)
2241 SSL_set_msg_callback(ssl, cb)
2242 SSL_set_msg_callback_arg(ssl, arg)
2244 to request calling a callback function
2246 void cb(int write_p, int version, int content_type,
2247 const void *buf, size_t len, SSL *ssl, void *arg)
2249 whenever a protocol message has been completely received
2250 (write_p == 0) or sent (write_p == 1). Here 'version' is the
2251 protocol version according to which the SSL library interprets
2252 the current protocol message (SSL2_VERSION, SSL3_VERSION, or
2253 TLS1_VERSION). 'content_type' is 0 in the case of SSL 2.0, or
2254 the content type as defined in the SSL 3.0/TLS 1.0 protocol
2255 specification (change_cipher_spec(20), alert(21), handshake(22)).
2256 'buf' and 'len' point to the actual message, 'ssl' to the
2257 SSL object, and 'arg' is the application-defined value set by
2258 SSL[_CTX]_set_msg_callback_arg().
2260 'openssl s_client' and 'openssl s_server' have new '-msg' options
2261 to enable a callback that displays all protocol messages.
2264 *) Change the shared library support so shared libraries are built as
2265 soon as the corresponding static library is finished, and thereby get
2266 openssl and the test programs linked against the shared library.
2267 This still only happens when the keyword "shard" has been given to
2268 the configuration scripts.
2270 NOTE: shared library support is still an experimental thing, and
2271 backward binary compatibility is still not guaranteed.
2272 ["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl> and Richard Levitte]
2274 *) Add support for Subject Information Access extension.
2275 [Peter Sylvester <Peter.Sylvester@EdelWeb.fr>]
2277 *) Make BUF_MEM_grow() behaviour more consistent: Initialise to zero
2278 additional bytes when new memory had to be allocated, not just
2279 when reusing an existing buffer.
2282 *) New command line and configuration option 'utf8' for the req command.
2283 This allows field values to be specified as UTF8 strings.
2286 *) Add -multi and -mr options to "openssl speed" - giving multiple parallel
2287 runs for the former and machine-readable output for the latter.
2290 *) Add '-noemailDN' option to 'openssl ca'. This prevents inclusion
2291 of the e-mail address in the DN (i.e., it will go into a certificate
2292 extension only). The new configuration file option 'email_in_dn = no'
2293 has the same effect.
2294 [Massimiliano Pala madwolf@openca.org]
2296 *) Change all functions with names starting with des_ to be starting
2297 with DES_ instead. Add wrappers that are compatible with libdes,
2298 but are named _ossl_old_des_*. Finally, add macros that map the
2299 des_* symbols to the corresponding _ossl_old_des_* if libdes
2300 compatibility is desired. If OpenSSL 0.9.6c compatibility is
2301 desired, the des_* symbols will be mapped to DES_*, with one
2304 Since we provide two compatibility mappings, the user needs to
2305 define the macro OPENSSL_DES_LIBDES_COMPATIBILITY if libdes
2306 compatibility is desired. The default (i.e., when that macro
2307 isn't defined) is OpenSSL 0.9.6c compatibility.
2309 There are also macros that enable and disable the support of old
2310 des functions altogether. Those are OPENSSL_ENABLE_OLD_DES_SUPPORT
2311 and OPENSSL_DISABLE_OLD_DES_SUPPORT. If none or both of those
2312 are defined, the default will apply: to support the old des routines.
2314 In either case, one must include openssl/des.h to get the correct
2315 definitions. Do not try to just include openssl/des_old.h, that
2318 NOTE: This is a major break of an old API into a new one. Software
2319 authors are encouraged to switch to the DES_ style functions. Some
2320 time in the future, des_old.h and the libdes compatibility functions
2321 will be disable (i.e. OPENSSL_DISABLE_OLD_DES_SUPPORT will be the
2322 default), and then completely removed.
2325 *) Test for certificates which contain unsupported critical extensions.
2326 If such a certificate is found during a verify operation it is
2327 rejected by default: this behaviour can be overridden by either
2328 handling the new error X509_V_ERR_UNHANDLED_CRITICAL_EXTENSION or
2329 by setting the verify flag X509_V_FLAG_IGNORE_CRITICAL. A new function
2330 X509_supported_extension() has also been added which returns 1 if a
2331 particular extension is supported.
2334 *) Modify the behaviour of EVP cipher functions in similar way to digests
2335 to retain compatibility with existing code.
2338 *) Modify the behaviour of EVP_DigestInit() and EVP_DigestFinal() to retain
2339 compatibility with existing code. In particular the 'ctx' parameter does
2340 not have to be to be initialized before the call to EVP_DigestInit() and
2341 it is tidied up after a call to EVP_DigestFinal(). New function
2342 EVP_DigestFinal_ex() which does not tidy up the ctx. Similarly function
2343 EVP_MD_CTX_copy() changed to not require the destination to be
2344 initialized valid and new function EVP_MD_CTX_copy_ex() added which
2345 requires the destination to be valid.
2347 Modify all the OpenSSL digest calls to use EVP_DigestInit_ex(),
2348 EVP_DigestFinal_ex() and EVP_MD_CTX_copy_ex().
2351 *) Change ssl3_get_message (ssl/s3_both.c) and the functions using it
2352 so that complete 'Handshake' protocol structures are kept in memory
2353 instead of overwriting 'msg_type' and 'length' with 'body' data.
2356 *) Add an implementation of SSL_add_dir_cert_subjects_to_stack for Win32.
2357 [Massimo Santin via Richard Levitte]
2359 *) Major restructuring to the underlying ENGINE code. This includes
2360 reduction of linker bloat, separation of pure "ENGINE" manipulation
2361 (initialisation, etc) from functionality dealing with implementations
2362 of specific crypto iterfaces. This change also introduces integrated
2363 support for symmetric ciphers and digest implementations - so ENGINEs
2364 can now accelerate these by providing EVP_CIPHER and EVP_MD
2365 implementations of their own. This is detailed in crypto/engine/README
2366 as it couldn't be adequately described here. However, there are a few
2367 API changes worth noting - some RSA, DSA, DH, and RAND functions that
2368 were changed in the original introduction of ENGINE code have now
2369 reverted back - the hooking from this code to ENGINE is now a good
2370 deal more passive and at run-time, operations deal directly with
2371 RSA_METHODs, DSA_METHODs (etc) as they did before, rather than
2372 dereferencing through an ENGINE pointer any more. Also, the ENGINE
2373 functions dealing with BN_MOD_EXP[_CRT] handlers have been removed -
2374 they were not being used by the framework as there is no concept of a
2375 BIGNUM_METHOD and they could not be generalised to the new
2376 'ENGINE_TABLE' mechanism that underlies the new code. Similarly,
2377 ENGINE_cpy() has been removed as it cannot be consistently defined in
2381 *) Change ASN1_GENERALIZEDTIME_check() to allow fractional seconds.
2384 *) Change mkdef.pl to sort symbols that get the same entry number,
2385 and make sure the automatically generated functions ERR_load_*
2386 become part of libeay.num as well.
2389 *) New function SSL_renegotiate_pending(). This returns true once
2390 renegotiation has been requested (either SSL_renegotiate() call
2391 or HelloRequest/ClientHello receveived from the peer) and becomes
2392 false once a handshake has been completed.
2393 (For servers, SSL_renegotiate() followed by SSL_do_handshake()
2394 sends a HelloRequest, but does not ensure that a handshake takes
2395 place. SSL_renegotiate_pending() is useful for checking if the
2396 client has followed the request.)
2399 *) New SSL option SSL_OP_NO_SESSION_RESUMPTION_ON_RENEGOTIATION.
2400 By default, clients may request session resumption even during
2401 renegotiation (if session ID contexts permit); with this option,
2402 session resumption is possible only in the first handshake.
2404 SSL_OP_ALL is now 0x00000FFFL instead of 0x000FFFFFL. This makes
2405 more bits available for options that should not be part of
2406 SSL_OP_ALL (such as SSL_OP_NO_SESSION_RESUMPTION_ON_RENEGOTIATION).
2409 *) Add some demos for certificate and certificate request creation.
2412 *) Make maximum certificate chain size accepted from the peer application
2413 settable (SSL*_get/set_max_cert_list()), as proposed by
2414 "Douglas E. Engert" <deengert@anl.gov>.
2417 *) Add support for shared libraries for Unixware-7
2418 (Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>).
2421 *) Add a "destroy" handler to ENGINEs that allows structural cleanup to
2422 be done prior to destruction. Use this to unload error strings from
2423 ENGINEs that load their own error strings. NB: This adds two new API
2424 functions to "get" and "set" this destroy handler in an ENGINE.
2427 *) Alter all existing ENGINE implementations (except "openssl" and
2428 "openbsd") to dynamically instantiate their own error strings. This
2429 makes them more flexible to be built both as statically-linked ENGINEs
2430 and self-contained shared-libraries loadable via the "dynamic" ENGINE.
2431 Also, add stub code to each that makes building them as self-contained
2432 shared-libraries easier (see README.ENGINE).
2435 *) Add a "dynamic" ENGINE that provides a mechanism for binding ENGINE
2436 implementations into applications that are completely implemented in
2437 self-contained shared-libraries. The "dynamic" ENGINE exposes control
2438 commands that can be used to configure what shared-library to load and
2439 to control aspects of the way it is handled. Also, made an update to
2440 the README.ENGINE file that brings its information up-to-date and
2441 provides some information and instructions on the "dynamic" ENGINE
2442 (ie. how to use it, how to build "dynamic"-loadable ENGINEs, etc).
2445 *) Make it possible to unload ranges of ERR strings with a new
2446 "ERR_unload_strings" function.
2449 *) Add a copy() function to EVP_MD.
2452 *) Make EVP_MD routines take a context pointer instead of just the
2453 md_data void pointer.
2456 *) Add flags to EVP_MD and EVP_MD_CTX. EVP_MD_FLAG_ONESHOT indicates
2457 that the digest can only process a single chunk of data
2458 (typically because it is provided by a piece of
2459 hardware). EVP_MD_CTX_FLAG_ONESHOT indicates that the application
2460 is only going to provide a single chunk of data, and hence the
2461 framework needn't accumulate the data for oneshot drivers.
2464 *) As with "ERR", make it possible to replace the underlying "ex_data"
2465 functions. This change also alters the storage and management of global
2466 ex_data state - it's now all inside ex_data.c and all "class" code (eg.
2467 RSA, BIO, SSL_CTX, etc) no longer stores its own STACKS and per-class
2468 index counters. The API functions that use this state have been changed
2469 to take a "class_index" rather than pointers to the class's local STACK
2470 and counter, and there is now an API function to dynamically create new
2471 classes. This centralisation allows us to (a) plug a lot of the
2472 thread-safety problems that existed, and (b) makes it possible to clean
2473 up all allocated state using "CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data()". W.r.t. (b)
2474 such data would previously have always leaked in application code and
2475 workarounds were in place to make the memory debugging turn a blind eye
2476 to it. Application code that doesn't use this new function will still
2477 leak as before, but their memory debugging output will announce it now
2478 rather than letting it slide.
2480 Besides the addition of CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data(), another API change
2481 induced by the "ex_data" overhaul is that X509_STORE_CTX_init() now
2482 has a return value to indicate success or failure.
2485 *) Make it possible to replace the underlying "ERR" functions such that the
2486 global state (2 LHASH tables and 2 locks) is only used by the "default"
2487 implementation. This change also adds two functions to "get" and "set"
2488 the implementation prior to it being automatically set the first time
2489 any other ERR function takes place. Ie. an application can call "get",
2490 pass the return value to a module it has just loaded, and that module
2491 can call its own "set" function using that value. This means the
2492 module's "ERR" operations will use (and modify) the error state in the
2493 application and not in its own statically linked copy of OpenSSL code.
2496 *) Give DH, DSA, and RSA types their own "**_up_ref()" function to increment
2497 reference counts. This performs normal REF_PRINT/REF_CHECK macros on
2498 the operation, and provides a more encapsulated way for external code
2499 (crypto/evp/ and ssl/) to do this. Also changed the evp and ssl code
2500 to use these functions rather than manually incrementing the counts.
2502 Also rename "DSO_up()" function to more descriptive "DSO_up_ref()".
2505 *) Add EVP test program.
2508 *) Add symmetric cipher support to ENGINE. Expect the API to change!
2511 *) New CRL functions: X509_CRL_set_version(), X509_CRL_set_issuer_name()
2512 X509_CRL_set_lastUpdate(), X509_CRL_set_nextUpdate(), X509_CRL_sort(),
2513 X509_REVOKED_set_serialNumber(), and X509_REVOKED_set_revocationDate().
2514 These allow a CRL to be built without having to access X509_CRL fields
2515 directly. Modify 'ca' application to use new functions.
2518 *) Move SSL_OP_TLS_ROLLBACK_BUG out of the SSL_OP_ALL list of recommended
2519 bug workarounds. Rollback attack detection is a security feature.
2520 The problem will only arise on OpenSSL servers when TLSv1 is not
2521 available (sslv3_server_method() or SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1).
2522 Software authors not wanting to support TLSv1 will have special reasons
2523 for their choice and can explicitly enable this option.
2524 [Bodo Moeller, Lutz Jaenicke]
2526 *) Rationalise EVP so it can be extended: don't include a union of
2527 cipher/digest structures, add init/cleanup functions for EVP_MD_CTX
2528 (similar to those existing for EVP_CIPHER_CTX).
2533 EVP_MD_CTX_init(&md); /* new function call */
2534 EVP_DigestInit(&md, EVP_sha1());
2535 EVP_DigestUpdate(&md, in, len);
2536 EVP_DigestFinal(&md, out, NULL);
2537 EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(&md); /* new function call */
2541 *) Make DES key schedule conform to the usual scheme, as well as
2542 correcting its structure. This means that calls to DES functions
2543 now have to pass a pointer to a des_key_schedule instead of a
2544 plain des_key_schedule (which was actually always a pointer
2547 des_key_schedule ks;
2549 des_set_key_checked(..., &ks);
2550 des_ncbc_encrypt(..., &ks, ...);
2552 (Note that a later change renames 'des_...' into 'DES_...'.)
2555 *) Initial reduction of linker bloat: the use of some functions, such as
2556 PEM causes large amounts of unused functions to be linked in due to
2557 poor organisation. For example pem_all.c contains every PEM function
2558 which has a knock on effect of linking in large amounts of (unused)
2559 ASN1 code. Grouping together similar functions and splitting unrelated
2560 functions prevents this.
2563 *) Cleanup of EVP macros.
2566 *) Change historical references to {NID,SN,LN}_des_ede and ede3 to add the
2567 correct _ecb suffix.
2570 *) Add initial OCSP responder support to ocsp application. The
2571 revocation information is handled using the text based index
2572 use by the ca application. The responder can either handle
2573 requests generated internally, supplied in files (for example
2574 via a CGI script) or using an internal minimal server.
2577 *) Add configuration choices to get zlib compression for TLS.
2580 *) Changes to Kerberos SSL for RFC 2712 compliance:
2581 1. Implemented real KerberosWrapper, instead of just using
2582 KRB5 AP_REQ message. [Thanks to Simon Wilkinson <sxw@sxw.org.uk>]
2583 2. Implemented optional authenticator field of KerberosWrapper.
2585 Added openssl-style ASN.1 macros for Kerberos ticket, ap_req,
2586 and authenticator structs; see crypto/krb5/.
2588 Generalized Kerberos calls to support multiple Kerberos libraries.
2589 [Vern Staats <staatsvr@asc.hpc.mil>,
2590 Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@columbia.edu>
2591 via Richard Levitte]
2593 *) Cause 'openssl speed' to use fully hard-coded DSA keys as it
2594 already does with RSA. testdsa.h now has 'priv_key/pub_key'
2595 values for each of the key sizes rather than having just
2596 parameters (and 'speed' generating keys each time).
2599 *) Speed up EVP routines.
2602 type 8 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes
2603 des-cbc 4408.85k 5560.51k 5778.46k 5862.20k 5825.16k
2604 des-cbc 4389.55k 5571.17k 5792.23k 5846.91k 5832.11k
2605 des-cbc 4394.32k 5575.92k 5807.44k 5848.37k 5841.30k
2607 des-cbc 3482.66k 5069.49k 5496.39k 5614.16k 5639.28k
2608 des-cbc 3480.74k 5068.76k 5510.34k 5609.87k 5635.52k
2609 des-cbc 3483.72k 5067.62k 5504.60k 5708.01k 5724.80k
2612 des-cbc 4660.16k 5650.19k 5807.19k 5827.13k 5783.32k
2614 des-cbc 3624.96k 5258.21k 5530.91k 5624.30k 5628.26k
2617 *) Added the OS2-EMX target.
2618 ["Brian Havard" <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> and Richard Levitte]
2620 *) Rewrite apps to use NCONF routines instead of the old CONF. New functions
2621 to support NCONF routines in extension code. New function CONF_set_nconf()
2622 to allow functions which take an NCONF to also handle the old LHASH
2623 structure: this means that the old CONF compatible routines can be
2624 retained (in particular wrt extensions) without having to duplicate the
2625 code. New function X509V3_add_ext_nconf_sk to add extensions to a stack.
2628 *) Enhance the general user interface with mechanisms for inner control
2629 and with possibilities to have yes/no kind of prompts.
2632 *) Change all calls to low level digest routines in the library and
2633 applications to use EVP. Add missing calls to HMAC_cleanup() and
2634 don't assume HMAC_CTX can be copied using memcpy().
2635 [Verdon Walker <VWalker@novell.com>, Steve Henson]
2637 *) Add the possibility to control engines through control names but with
2638 arbitrary arguments instead of just a string.
2639 Change the key loaders to take a UI_METHOD instead of a callback
2640 function pointer. NOTE: this breaks binary compatibility with earlier
2641 versions of OpenSSL [engine].
2642 Adapt the nCipher code for these new conditions and add a card insertion
2646 *) Enhance the general user interface with mechanisms to better support
2647 dialog box interfaces, application-defined prompts, the possibility
2648 to use defaults (for example default passwords from somewhere else)
2649 and interrupts/cancellations.
2652 *) Tidy up PKCS#12 attribute handling. Add support for the CSP name
2653 attribute in PKCS#12 files, add new -CSP option to pkcs12 utility.
2656 *) Fix a memory leak in 'sk_dup()' in the case reallocation fails. (Also
2657 tidy up some unnecessarily weird code in 'sk_new()').
2658 [Geoff, reported by Diego Tartara <dtartara@novamens.com>]
2660 *) Change the key loading routines for ENGINEs to use the same kind
2661 callback (pem_password_cb) as all other routines that need this
2665 *) Increase ENTROPY_NEEDED to 32 bytes, as Rijndael can operate with
2666 256 bit (=32 byte) keys. Of course seeding with more entropy bytes
2667 than this minimum value is recommended.
2670 *) New random seeder for OpenVMS, using the system process statistics
2671 that are easily reachable.
2674 *) Windows apparently can't transparently handle global
2675 variables defined in DLLs. Initialisations such as:
2677 const ASN1_ITEM *it = &ASN1_INTEGER_it;
2679 wont compile. This is used by the any applications that need to
2680 declare their own ASN1 modules. This was fixed by adding the option
2681 EXPORT_VAR_AS_FN to all Win32 platforms, although this isn't strictly
2682 needed for static libraries under Win32.
2685 *) New functions X509_PURPOSE_set() and X509_TRUST_set() to handle
2686 setting of purpose and trust fields. New X509_STORE trust and
2687 purpose functions and tidy up setting in other SSL functions.
2690 *) Add copies of X509_STORE_CTX fields and callbacks to X509_STORE
2691 structure. These are inherited by X509_STORE_CTX when it is
2692 initialised. This allows various defaults to be set in the
2693 X509_STORE structure (such as flags for CRL checking and custom
2694 purpose or trust settings) for functions which only use X509_STORE_CTX
2695 internally such as S/MIME.
2697 Modify X509_STORE_CTX_purpose_inherit() so it only sets purposes and
2698 trust settings if they are not set in X509_STORE. This allows X509_STORE
2699 purposes and trust (in S/MIME for example) to override any set by default.
2701 Add command line options for CRL checking to smime, s_client and s_server
2705 *) Initial CRL based revocation checking. If the CRL checking flag(s)
2706 are set then the CRL is looked up in the X509_STORE structure and
2707 its validity and signature checked, then if the certificate is found
2708 in the CRL the verify fails with a revoked error.
2710 Various new CRL related callbacks added to X509_STORE_CTX structure.
2712 Command line options added to 'verify' application to support this.
2714 This needs some additional work, such as being able to handle multiple
2715 CRLs with different times, extension based lookup (rather than just
2716 by subject name) and ultimately more complete V2 CRL extension
2720 *) Add a general user interface API (crypto/ui/). This is designed
2721 to replace things like des_read_password and friends (backward
2722 compatibility functions using this new API are provided).
2723 The purpose is to remove prompting functions from the DES code
2724 section as well as provide for prompting through dialog boxes in
2725 a window system and the like.
2728 *) Add "ex_data" support to ENGINE so implementations can add state at a
2729 per-structure level rather than having to store it globally.
2732 *) Make it possible for ENGINE structures to be copied when retrieved by
2733 ENGINE_by_id() if the ENGINE specifies a new flag: ENGINE_FLAGS_BY_ID_COPY.
2734 This causes the "original" ENGINE structure to act like a template,
2735 analogous to the RSA vs. RSA_METHOD type of separation. Because of this
2736 operational state can be localised to each ENGINE structure, despite the
2737 fact they all share the same "methods". New ENGINE structures returned in
2738 this case have no functional references and the return value is the single
2739 structural reference. This matches the single structural reference returned
2740 by ENGINE_by_id() normally, when it is incremented on the pre-existing
2744 *) Fix ASN1 decoder when decoding type ANY and V_ASN1_OTHER: since this
2745 needs to match any other type at all we need to manually clear the
2749 *) Changes to the "openssl engine" utility to include;
2750 - verbosity levels ('-v', '-vv', and '-vvv') that provide information
2751 about an ENGINE's available control commands.
2752 - executing control commands from command line arguments using the
2753 '-pre' and '-post' switches. '-post' is only used if '-t' is
2754 specified and the ENGINE is successfully initialised. The syntax for
2755 the individual commands are colon-separated, for example;
2756 openssl engine chil -pre FORK_CHECK:0 -pre SO_PATH:/lib/test.so
2759 *) New dynamic control command support for ENGINEs. ENGINEs can now
2760 declare their own commands (numbers), names (strings), descriptions,
2761 and input types for run-time discovery by calling applications. A
2762 subset of these commands are implicitly classed as "executable"
2763 depending on their input type, and only these can be invoked through
2764 the new string-based API function ENGINE_ctrl_cmd_string(). (Eg. this
2765 can be based on user input, config files, etc). The distinction is
2766 that "executable" commands cannot return anything other than a boolean
2767 result and can only support numeric or string input, whereas some
2768 discoverable commands may only be for direct use through
2769 ENGINE_ctrl(), eg. supporting the exchange of binary data, function
2770 pointers, or other custom uses. The "executable" commands are to
2771 support parameterisations of ENGINE behaviour that can be
2772 unambiguously defined by ENGINEs and used consistently across any
2773 OpenSSL-based application. Commands have been added to all the
2774 existing hardware-supporting ENGINEs, noticeably "SO_PATH" to allow
2775 control over shared-library paths without source code alterations.
2778 *) Changed all ENGINE implementations to dynamically allocate their
2779 ENGINEs rather than declaring them statically. Apart from this being
2780 necessary with the removal of the ENGINE_FLAGS_MALLOCED distinction,
2781 this also allows the implementations to compile without using the
2782 internal engine_int.h header.
2785 *) Minor adjustment to "rand" code. RAND_get_rand_method() now returns a
2786 'const' value. Any code that should be able to modify a RAND_METHOD
2787 should already have non-const pointers to it (ie. they should only
2788 modify their own ones).
2791 *) Made a variety of little tweaks to the ENGINE code.
2792 - "atalla" and "ubsec" string definitions were moved from header files
2793 to C code. "nuron" string definitions were placed in variables
2794 rather than hard-coded - allowing parameterisation of these values
2795 later on via ctrl() commands.
2796 - Removed unused "#if 0"'d code.
2797 - Fixed engine list iteration code so it uses ENGINE_free() to release
2798 structural references.
2799 - Constified the RAND_METHOD element of ENGINE structures.
2800 - Constified various get/set functions as appropriate and added
2801 missing functions (including a catch-all ENGINE_cpy that duplicates
2802 all ENGINE values onto a new ENGINE except reference counts/state).
2803 - Removed NULL parameter checks in get/set functions. Setting a method
2804 or function to NULL is a way of cancelling out a previously set
2805 value. Passing a NULL ENGINE parameter is just plain stupid anyway
2806 and doesn't justify the extra error symbols and code.
2807 - Deprecate the ENGINE_FLAGS_MALLOCED define and move the area for
2808 flags from engine_int.h to engine.h.
2809 - Changed prototypes for ENGINE handler functions (init(), finish(),
2810 ctrl(), key-load functions, etc) to take an (ENGINE*) parameter.
2813 *) Implement binary inversion algorithm for BN_mod_inverse in addition
2814 to the algorithm using long division. The binary algorithm can be
2815 used only if the modulus is odd. On 32-bit systems, it is faster
2816 only for relatively small moduli (roughly 20-30% for 128-bit moduli,
2817 roughly 5-15% for 256-bit moduli), so we use it only for moduli
2818 up to 450 bits. In 64-bit environments, the binary algorithm
2819 appears to be advantageous for much longer moduli; here we use it
2820 for moduli up to 2048 bits.
2823 *) Rewrite CHOICE field setting in ASN1_item_ex_d2i(). The old code
2824 could not support the combine flag in choice fields.
2827 *) Add a 'copy_extensions' option to the 'ca' utility. This copies
2828 extensions from a certificate request to the certificate.
2831 *) Allow multiple 'certopt' and 'nameopt' options to be separated
2832 by commas. Add 'namopt' and 'certopt' options to the 'ca' config
2833 file: this allows the display of the certificate about to be
2834 signed to be customised, to allow certain fields to be included
2835 or excluded and extension details. The old system didn't display
2836 multicharacter strings properly, omitted fields not in the policy
2837 and couldn't display additional details such as extensions.
2840 *) Function EC_POINTs_mul for multiple scalar multiplication
2841 of an arbitrary number of elliptic curve points
2842 \sum scalars[i]*points[i],
2843 optionally including the generator defined for the EC_GROUP:
2844 scalar*generator + \sum scalars[i]*points[i].
2846 EC_POINT_mul is a simple wrapper function for the typical case
2847 that the point list has just one item (besides the optional
2851 *) First EC_METHODs for curves over GF(p):
2853 EC_GFp_simple_method() uses the basic BN_mod_mul and BN_mod_sqr
2854 operations and provides various method functions that can also
2855 operate with faster implementations of modular arithmetic.
2857 EC_GFp_mont_method() reuses most functions that are part of
2858 EC_GFp_simple_method, but uses Montgomery arithmetic.
2860 [Bodo Moeller; point addition and point doubling
2861 implementation directly derived from source code provided by
2862 Lenka Fibikova <fibikova@exp-math.uni-essen.de>]
2864 *) Framework for elliptic curves (crypto/ec/ec.h, crypto/ec/ec_lcl.h,
2865 crypto/ec/ec_lib.c):
2867 Curves are EC_GROUP objects (with an optional group generator)
2868 based on EC_METHODs that are built into the library.
2870 Points are EC_POINT objects based on EC_GROUP objects.
2872 Most of the framework would be able to handle curves over arbitrary
2873 finite fields, but as there are no obvious types for fields other
2874 than GF(p), some functions are limited to that for now.
2877 *) Add the -HTTP option to s_server. It is similar to -WWW, but requires
2878 that the file contains a complete HTTP response.
2881 *) Add the ec directory to mkdef.pl and mkfiles.pl. In mkdef.pl
2882 change the def and num file printf format specifier from "%-40sXXX"
2883 to "%-39s XXX". The latter will always guarantee a space after the
2884 field while the former will cause them to run together if the field
2885 is 40 of more characters long.
2888 *) Constify the cipher and digest 'method' functions and structures
2889 and modify related functions to take constant EVP_MD and EVP_CIPHER
2893 *) Hide BN_CTX structure details in bn_lcl.h instead of publishing them
2894 in <openssl/bn.h>. Also further increase BN_CTX_NUM to 32.
2897 *) Modify EVP_Digest*() routines so they now return values. Although the
2898 internal software routines can never fail additional hardware versions
2902 *) Clean up crypto/err/err.h and change some error codes to avoid conflicts:
2904 Previously ERR_R_FATAL was too small and coincided with ERR_LIB_PKCS7
2905 (= ERR_R_PKCS7_LIB); it is now 64 instead of 32.
2908 ERR_R_NESTED_ASN1_ERROR
2910 ERR_R_MISSING_ASN1_EOS
2911 were 4 .. 9, conflicting with
2912 ERR_LIB_RSA (= ERR_R_RSA_LIB)
2914 ERR_LIB_PEM (= ERR_R_PEM_LIB).
2915 They are now 58 .. 63 (i.e., just below ERR_R_FATAL).
2917 Add new error code 'ERR_R_INTERNAL_ERROR'.
2920 *) Don't overuse locks in crypto/err/err.c: For data retrieval, CRYPTO_r_lock
2924 *) New option '-subj arg' for 'openssl req' and 'openssl ca'. This
2925 sets the subject name for a new request or supersedes the
2926 subject name in a given request. Formats that can be parsed are
2927 'CN=Some Name, OU=myOU, C=IT'
2929 'CN=Some Name/OU=myOU/C=IT'.
2931 Add options '-batch' and '-verbose' to 'openssl req'.
2932 [Massimiliano Pala <madwolf@hackmasters.net>]
2934 *) Introduce the possibility to access global variables through
2935 functions on platform were that's the best way to handle exporting
2936 global variables in shared libraries. To enable this functionality,
2937 one must configure with "EXPORT_VAR_AS_FN" or defined the C macro
2938 "OPENSSL_EXPORT_VAR_AS_FUNCTION" in crypto/opensslconf.h (the latter
2939 is normally done by Configure or something similar).
2941 To implement a global variable, use the macro OPENSSL_IMPLEMENT_GLOBAL
2942 in the source file (foo.c) like this:
2944 OPENSSL_IMPLEMENT_GLOBAL(int,foo)=1;
2945 OPENSSL_IMPLEMENT_GLOBAL(double,bar);
2947 To declare a global variable, use the macros OPENSSL_DECLARE_GLOBAL
2948 and OPENSSL_GLOBAL_REF in the header file (foo.h) like this:
2950 OPENSSL_DECLARE_GLOBAL(int,foo);
2951 #define foo OPENSSL_GLOBAL_REF(foo)
2952 OPENSSL_DECLARE_GLOBAL(double,bar);
2953 #define bar OPENSSL_GLOBAL_REF(bar)
2955 The #defines are very important, and therefore so is including the
2956 header file everywhere where the defined globals are used.
2958 The macro OPENSSL_EXPORT_VAR_AS_FUNCTION also affects the definition
2959 of ASN.1 items, but that structure is a bit different.
2961 The largest change is in util/mkdef.pl which has been enhanced with
2962 better and easier to understand logic to choose which symbols should
2963 go into the Windows .def files as well as a number of fixes and code
2964 cleanup (among others, algorithm keywords are now sorted
2965 lexicographically to avoid constant rewrites).
2968 *) In BN_div() keep a copy of the sign of 'num' before writing the
2969 result to 'rm' because if rm==num the value will be overwritten
2970 and produce the wrong result if 'num' is negative: this caused
2971 problems with BN_mod() and BN_nnmod().
2974 *) Function OCSP_request_verify(). This checks the signature on an
2975 OCSP request and verifies the signer certificate. The signer
2976 certificate is just checked for a generic purpose and OCSP request
2980 *) Add OCSP_check_validity() function to check the validity of OCSP
2981 responses. OCSP responses are prepared in real time and may only
2982 be a few seconds old. Simply checking that the current time lies
2983 between thisUpdate and nextUpdate max reject otherwise valid responses
2984 caused by either OCSP responder or client clock inaccuracy. Instead
2985 we allow thisUpdate and nextUpdate to fall within a certain period of
2986 the current time. The age of the response can also optionally be
2987 checked. Two new options -validity_period and -status_age added to
2991 *) If signature or public key algorithm is unrecognized print out its
2992 OID rather that just UNKNOWN.
2995 *) Change OCSP_cert_to_id() to tolerate a NULL subject certificate and
2996 OCSP_cert_id_new() a NULL serialNumber. This allows a partial certificate
2997 ID to be generated from the issuer certificate alone which can then be
2998 passed to OCSP_id_issuer_cmp().
3001 *) New compilation option ASN1_ITEM_FUNCTIONS. This causes the new
3002 ASN1 modules to export functions returning ASN1_ITEM pointers
3003 instead of the ASN1_ITEM structures themselves. This adds several
3004 new macros which allow the underlying ASN1 function/structure to
3005 be accessed transparently. As a result code should not use ASN1_ITEM
3006 references directly (such as &X509_it) but instead use the relevant
3007 macros (such as ASN1_ITEM_rptr(X509)). This option is to allow
3008 use of the new ASN1 code on platforms where exporting structures
3009 is problematical (for example in shared libraries) but exporting
3010 functions returning pointers to structures is not.
3013 *) Add support for overriding the generation of SSL/TLS session IDs.
3014 These callbacks can be registered either in an SSL_CTX or per SSL.
3015 The purpose of this is to allow applications to control, if they wish,
3016 the arbitrary values chosen for use as session IDs, particularly as it
3017 can be useful for session caching in multiple-server environments. A
3018 command-line switch for testing this (and any client code that wishes
3019 to use such a feature) has been added to "s_server".
3020 [Geoff Thorpe, Lutz Jaenicke]
3022 *) Modify mkdef.pl to recognise and parse preprocessor conditionals
3023 of the form '#if defined(...) || defined(...) || ...' and
3024 '#if !defined(...) && !defined(...) && ...'. This also avoids
3025 the growing number of special cases it was previously handling.
3028 *) Make all configuration macros available for application by making
3029 sure they are available in opensslconf.h, by giving them names starting
3030 with "OPENSSL_" to avoid conflicts with other packages and by making
3031 sure e_os2.h will cover all platform-specific cases together with
3033 Additionally, it is now possible to define configuration/platform-
3034 specific names (called "system identities"). In the C code, these
3035 are prefixed with "OPENSSL_SYSNAME_". e_os2.h will create another
3036 macro with the name beginning with "OPENSSL_SYS_", which is determined
3037 from "OPENSSL_SYSNAME_*" or compiler-specific macros depending on
3041 *) New option -set_serial to 'req' and 'x509' this allows the serial
3042 number to use to be specified on the command line. Previously self
3043 signed certificates were hard coded with serial number 0 and the
3044 CA options of 'x509' had to use a serial number in a file which was
3048 *) New options to 'ca' utility to support V2 CRL entry extensions.
3049 Currently CRL reason, invalidity date and hold instruction are
3050 supported. Add new CRL extensions to V3 code and some new objects.
3053 *) New function EVP_CIPHER_CTX_set_padding() this is used to
3054 disable standard block padding (aka PKCS#5 padding) in the EVP
3055 API, which was previously mandatory. This means that the data is
3056 not padded in any way and so the total length much be a multiple
3057 of the block size, otherwise an error occurs.
3060 *) Initial (incomplete) OCSP SSL support.
3063 *) New function OCSP_parse_url(). This splits up a URL into its host,
3064 port and path components: primarily to parse OCSP URLs. New -url
3065 option to ocsp utility.
3068 *) New nonce behavior. The return value of OCSP_check_nonce() now
3069 reflects the various checks performed. Applications can decide
3070 whether to tolerate certain situations such as an absent nonce
3071 in a response when one was present in a request: the ocsp application
3072 just prints out a warning. New function OCSP_add1_basic_nonce()
3073 this is to allow responders to include a nonce in a response even if
3074 the request is nonce-less.
3077 *) Disable stdin buffering in load_cert (apps/apps.c) so that no certs are
3078 skipped when using openssl x509 multiple times on a single input file,
3079 e.g. "(openssl x509 -out cert1; openssl x509 -out cert2) <certs".
3082 *) Make ASN1_UTCTIME_set_string() and ASN1_GENERALIZEDTIME_set_string()
3083 set string type: to handle setting ASN1_TIME structures. Fix ca
3084 utility to correctly initialize revocation date of CRLs.
3087 *) New option SSL_OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE allows the server to override
3088 the clients preferred ciphersuites and rather use its own preferences.
3089 Should help to work around M$ SGC (Server Gated Cryptography) bug in
3090 Internet Explorer by ensuring unchanged hash method during stepup.
3091 (Also replaces the broken/deactivated SSL_OP_NON_EXPORT_FIRST option.)
3094 *) Make mkdef.pl recognise all DECLARE_ASN1 macros, change rijndael
3095 to aes and add a new 'exist' option to print out symbols that don't
3099 *) Additional options to ocsp utility to allow flags to be set and
3100 additional certificates supplied.
3103 *) Add the option -VAfile to 'openssl ocsp', so the user can give the
3104 OCSP client a number of certificate to only verify the response
3108 *) Update Rijndael code to version 3.0 and change EVP AES ciphers to
3109 handle the new API. Currently only ECB, CBC modes supported. Add new
3112 Add TLS AES ciphersuites as described in RFC3268, "Advanced
3113 Encryption Standard (AES) Ciphersuites for Transport Layer
3114 Security (TLS)". (In beta versions of OpenSSL 0.9.7, these were
3115 not enabled by default and were not part of the "ALL" ciphersuite
3116 alias because they were not yet official; they could be
3117 explicitly requested by specifying the "AESdraft" ciphersuite
3118 group alias. In the final release of OpenSSL 0.9.7, the group
3119 alias is called "AES" and is part of "ALL".)
3120 [Ben Laurie, Steve Henson, Bodo Moeller]
3122 *) New function OCSP_copy_nonce() to copy nonce value (if present) from
3123 request to response.
3126 *) Functions for OCSP responders. OCSP_request_onereq_count(),
3127 OCSP_request_onereq_get0(), OCSP_onereq_get0_id() and OCSP_id_get0_info()
3128 extract information from a certificate request. OCSP_response_create()
3129 creates a response and optionally adds a basic response structure.
3130 OCSP_basic_add1_status() adds a complete single response to a basic
3131 response and returns the OCSP_SINGLERESP structure just added (to allow
3132 extensions to be included for example). OCSP_basic_add1_cert() adds a
3133 certificate to a basic response and OCSP_basic_sign() signs a basic
3134 response with various flags. New helper functions ASN1_TIME_check()
3135 (checks validity of ASN1_TIME structure) and ASN1_TIME_to_generalizedtime()
3136 (converts ASN1_TIME to GeneralizedTime).
3139 *) Various new functions. EVP_Digest() combines EVP_Digest{Init,Update,Final}()
3140 in a single operation. X509_get0_pubkey_bitstr() extracts the public_key
3141 structure from a certificate. X509_pubkey_digest() digests the public_key
3142 contents: this is used in various key identifiers.
3145 *) Make sk_sort() tolerate a NULL argument.
3146 [Steve Henson reported by Massimiliano Pala <madwolf@comune.modena.it>]
3148 *) New OCSP verify flag OCSP_TRUSTOTHER. When set the "other" certificates
3149 passed by the function are trusted implicitly. If any of them signed the
3150 response then it is assumed to be valid and is not verified.
3153 *) In PKCS7_set_type() initialise content_type in PKCS7_ENC_CONTENT
3154 to data. This was previously part of the PKCS7 ASN1 code. This
3155 was causing problems with OpenSSL created PKCS#12 and PKCS#7 structures.
3156 [Steve Henson, reported by Kenneth R. Robinette
3157 <support@securenetterm.com>]
3159 *) Add CRYPTO_push_info() and CRYPTO_pop_info() calls to new ASN1
3160 routines: without these tracing memory leaks is very painful.
3161 Fix leaks in PKCS12 and PKCS7 routines.
3164 *) Make X509_time_adj() cope with the new behaviour of ASN1_TIME_new().
3165 Previously it initialised the 'type' argument to V_ASN1_UTCTIME which
3166 effectively meant GeneralizedTime would never be used. Now it
3167 is initialised to -1 but X509_time_adj() now has to check the value
3168 and use ASN1_TIME_set() if the value is not V_ASN1_UTCTIME or
3169 V_ASN1_GENERALIZEDTIME, without this it always uses GeneralizedTime.
3170 [Steve Henson, reported by Kenneth R. Robinette
3171 <support@securenetterm.com>]
3173 *) Fixes to BN_to_ASN1_INTEGER when bn is zero. This would previously
3174 result in a zero length in the ASN1_INTEGER structure which was
3175 not consistent with the structure when d2i_ASN1_INTEGER() was used
3176 and would cause ASN1_INTEGER_cmp() to fail. Enhance s2i_ASN1_INTEGER()
3177 to cope with hex and negative integers. Fix bug in i2a_ASN1_INTEGER()
3178 where it did not print out a minus for negative ASN1_INTEGER.
3181 *) Add summary printout to ocsp utility. The various functions which
3182 convert status values to strings have been renamed to:
3183 OCSP_response_status_str(), OCSP_cert_status_str() and
3184 OCSP_crl_reason_str() and are no longer static. New options
3185 to verify nonce values and to disable verification. OCSP response
3186 printout format cleaned up.
3189 *) Add additional OCSP certificate checks. These are those specified
3190 in RFC2560. This consists of two separate checks: the CA of the
3191 certificate being checked must either be the OCSP signer certificate
3192 or the issuer of the OCSP signer certificate. In the latter case the
3193 OCSP signer certificate must contain the OCSP signing extended key
3194 usage. This check is performed by attempting to match the OCSP
3195 signer or the OCSP signer CA to the issuerNameHash and issuerKeyHash
3196 in the OCSP_CERTID structures of the response.
3199 *) Initial OCSP certificate verification added to OCSP_basic_verify()
3200 and related routines. This uses the standard OpenSSL certificate
3201 verify routines to perform initial checks (just CA validity) and
3202 to obtain the certificate chain. Then additional checks will be
3203 performed on the chain. Currently the root CA is checked to see
3204 if it is explicitly trusted for OCSP signing. This is used to set
3205 a root CA as a global signing root: that is any certificate that
3206 chains to that CA is an acceptable OCSP signing certificate.
3209 *) New '-extfile ...' option to 'openssl ca' for reading X.509v3
3210 extensions from a separate configuration file.
3211 As when reading extensions from the main configuration file,
3212 the '-extensions ...' option may be used for specifying the
3214 [Massimiliano Pala <madwolf@comune.modena.it>]
3216 *) New OCSP utility. Allows OCSP requests to be generated or
3217 read. The request can be sent to a responder and the output
3218 parsed, outputed or printed in text form. Not complete yet:
3219 still needs to check the OCSP response validity.
3222 *) New subcommands for 'openssl ca':
3223 'openssl ca -status <serial>' prints the status of the cert with
3224 the given serial number (according to the index file).
3225 'openssl ca -updatedb' updates the expiry status of certificates
3227 [Massimiliano Pala <madwolf@comune.modena.it>]
3229 *) New '-newreq-nodes' command option to CA.pl. This is like
3230 '-newreq', but calls 'openssl req' with the '-nodes' option
3231 so that the resulting key is not encrypted.
3232 [Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>]
3234 *) New configuration for the GNU Hurd.
3235 [Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb@wolfram.com> via Richard Levitte]
3237 *) Initial code to implement OCSP basic response verify. This
3238 is currently incomplete. Currently just finds the signer's
3239 certificate and verifies the signature on the response.
3242 *) New SSLeay_version code SSLEAY_DIR to determine the compiled-in
3243 value of OPENSSLDIR. This is available via the new '-d' option
3244 to 'openssl version', and is also included in 'openssl version -a'.
3247 *) Allowing defining memory allocation callbacks that will be given
3248 file name and line number information in additional arguments
3249 (a const char* and an int). The basic functionality remains, as
3250 well as the original possibility to just replace malloc(),
3251 realloc() and free() by functions that do not know about these
3252 additional arguments. To register and find out the current
3253 settings for extended allocation functions, the following
3254 functions are provided:
3256 CRYPTO_set_mem_ex_functions
3257 CRYPTO_set_locked_mem_ex_functions
3258 CRYPTO_get_mem_ex_functions
3259 CRYPTO_get_locked_mem_ex_functions
3261 These work the same way as CRYPTO_set_mem_functions and friends.
3262 CRYPTO_get_[locked_]mem_functions now writes 0 where such an
3263 extended allocation function is enabled.
3264 Similarly, CRYPTO_get_[locked_]mem_ex_functions writes 0 where
3265 a conventional allocation function is enabled.
3266 [Richard Levitte, Bodo Moeller]
3268 *) Finish off removing the remaining LHASH function pointer casts.
3269 There should no longer be any prototype-casting required when using
3270 the LHASH abstraction, and any casts that remain are "bugs". See
3271 the callback types and macros at the head of lhash.h for details
3272 (and "OBJ_cleanup" in crypto/objects/obj_dat.c as an example).
3275 *) Add automatic query of EGD sockets in RAND_poll() for the unix variant.
3276 If /dev/[u]random devices are not available or do not return enough
3277 entropy, EGD style sockets (served by EGD or PRNGD) will automatically
3279 The locations /var/run/egd-pool, /dev/egd-pool, /etc/egd-pool, and
3280 /etc/entropy will be queried once each in this sequence, quering stops
3281 when enough entropy was collected without querying more sockets.
3284 *) Change the Unix RAND_poll() variant to be able to poll several
3285 random devices, as specified by DEVRANDOM, until a sufficient amount
3286 of data has been collected. We spend at most 10 ms on each file
3287 (select timeout) and read in non-blocking mode. DEVRANDOM now
3288 defaults to the list "/dev/urandom", "/dev/random", "/dev/srandom"
3289 (previously it was just the string "/dev/urandom"), so on typical
3290 platforms the 10 ms delay will never occur.
3291 Also separate out the Unix variant to its own file, rand_unix.c.
3292 For VMS, there's a currently-empty rand_vms.c.
3295 *) Move OCSP client related routines to ocsp_cl.c. These
3296 provide utility functions which an application needing
3297 to issue a request to an OCSP responder and analyse the
3298 response will typically need: as opposed to those which an
3299 OCSP responder itself would need which will be added later.
3301 OCSP_request_sign() signs an OCSP request with an API similar
3302 to PKCS7_sign(). OCSP_response_status() returns status of OCSP
3303 response. OCSP_response_get1_basic() extracts basic response
3304 from response. OCSP_resp_find_status(): finds and extracts status
3305 information from an OCSP_CERTID structure (which will be created
3306 when the request structure is built). These are built from lower
3307 level functions which work on OCSP_SINGLERESP structures but
3308 wont normally be used unless the application wishes to examine
3309 extensions in the OCSP response for example.
3311 Replace nonce routines with a pair of functions.
3312 OCSP_request_add1_nonce() adds a nonce value and optionally
3313 generates a random value. OCSP_check_nonce() checks the
3314 validity of the nonce in an OCSP response.
3317 *) Change function OCSP_request_add() to OCSP_request_add0_id().
3318 This doesn't copy the supplied OCSP_CERTID and avoids the
3319 need to free up the newly created id. Change return type
3320 to OCSP_ONEREQ to return the internal OCSP_ONEREQ structure.
3321 This can then be used to add extensions to the request.
3322 Deleted OCSP_request_new(), since most of its functionality
3323 is now in OCSP_REQUEST_new() (and the case insensitive name
3324 clash) apart from the ability to set the request name which
3325 will be added elsewhere.
3328 *) Update OCSP API. Remove obsolete extensions argument from
3329 various functions. Extensions are now handled using the new
3330 OCSP extension code. New simple OCSP HTTP function which
3331 can be used to send requests and parse the response.
3334 *) Fix the PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code to work with new ASN1. Two new
3335 ASN1_ITEM structures help with sign and verify. PKCS7_ATTR_SIGN
3336 uses the special reorder version of SET OF to sort the attributes
3337 and reorder them to match the encoded order. This resolves a long
3338 standing problem: a verify on a PKCS7 structure just after signing
3339 it used to fail because the attribute order did not match the
3340 encoded order. PKCS7_ATTR_VERIFY does not reorder the attributes:
3341 it uses the received order. This is necessary to tolerate some broken
3342 software that does not order SET OF. This is handled by encoding
3343 as a SEQUENCE OF but using implicit tagging (with UNIVERSAL class)
3344 to produce the required SET OF.
3347 *) Have mk1mf.pl generate the macros OPENSSL_BUILD_SHLIBCRYPTO and
3348 OPENSSL_BUILD_SHLIBSSL and use them appropriately in the header
3349 files to get correct declarations of the ASN.1 item variables.
3352 *) Rewrite of PKCS#12 code to use new ASN1 functionality. Replace many
3353 PKCS#12 macros with real functions. Fix two unrelated ASN1 bugs:
3354 asn1_check_tlen() would sometimes attempt to use 'ctx' when it was
3355 NULL and ASN1_TYPE was not dereferenced properly in asn1_ex_c2i().
3356 New ASN1 macro: DECLARE_ASN1_ITEM() which just declares the relevant
3357 ASN1_ITEM and no wrapper functions.
3360 *) New functions or ASN1_item_d2i_fp() and ASN1_item_d2i_bio(). These
3361 replace the old function pointer based I/O routines. Change most of
3362 the *_d2i_bio() and *_d2i_fp() functions to use these.
3365 *) Enhance mkdef.pl to be more accepting about spacing in C preprocessor
3366 lines, recognice more "algorithms" that can be deselected, and make
3367 it complain about algorithm deselection that isn't recognised.
3370 *) New ASN1 functions to handle dup, sign, verify, digest, pack and
3371 unpack operations in terms of ASN1_ITEM. Modify existing wrappers
3372 to use new functions. Add NO_ASN1_OLD which can be set to remove
3373 some old style ASN1 functions: this can be used to determine if old
3374 code will still work when these eventually go away.
3377 *) New extension functions for OCSP structures, these follow the
3378 same conventions as certificates and CRLs.
3381 *) New function X509V3_add1_i2d(). This automatically encodes and
3382 adds an extension. Its behaviour can be customised with various
3383 flags to append, replace or delete. Various wrappers added for
3384 certifcates and CRLs.
3387 *) Fix to avoid calling the underlying ASN1 print routine when
3388 an extension cannot be parsed. Correct a typo in the
3389 OCSP_SERVICELOC extension. Tidy up print OCSP format.
3392 *) Make mkdef.pl parse some of the ASN1 macros and add apropriate
3393 entries for variables.
3396 *) Add functionality to apps/openssl.c for detecting locking
3397 problems: As the program is single-threaded, all we have
3398 to do is register a locking callback using an array for
3399 storing which locks are currently held by the program.
3402 *) Use a lock around the call to CRYPTO_get_ex_new_index() in
3403 SSL_get_ex_data_X509_STORE_idx(), which is used in
3404 ssl_verify_cert_chain() and thus can be called at any time
3405 during TLS/SSL handshakes so that thread-safety is essential.
3406 Unfortunately, the ex_data design is not at all suited
3407 for multi-threaded use, so it probably should be abolished.
3410 *) Added Broadcom "ubsec" ENGINE to OpenSSL.
3411 [Broadcom, tweaked and integrated by Geoff Thorpe]
3413 *) Move common extension printing code to new function
3414 X509V3_print_extensions(). Reorganise OCSP print routines and
3415 implement some needed OCSP ASN1 functions. Add OCSP extensions.
3418 *) New function X509_signature_print() to remove duplication in some
3422 *) Add a special meaning when SET OF and SEQUENCE OF flags are both
3423 set (this was treated exactly the same as SET OF previously). This
3424 is used to reorder the STACK representing the structure to match the
3425 encoding. This will be used to get round a problem where a PKCS7
3426 structure which was signed could not be verified because the STACK
3427 order did not reflect the encoded order.
3430 *) Reimplement the OCSP ASN1 module using the new code.
3433 *) Update the X509V3 code to permit the use of an ASN1_ITEM structure
3434 for its ASN1 operations. The old style function pointers still exist
3435 for now but they will eventually go away.
3438 *) Merge in replacement ASN1 code from the ASN1 branch. This almost
3439 completely replaces the old ASN1 functionality with a table driven
3440 encoder and decoder which interprets an ASN1_ITEM structure describing
3441 the ASN1 module. Compatibility with the existing ASN1 API (i2d,d2i) is
3442 largely maintained. Almost all of the old asn1_mac.h macro based ASN1
3443 has also been converted to the new form.
3446 *) Change BN_mod_exp_recp so that negative moduli are tolerated
3447 (the sign is ignored). Similarly, ignore the sign in BN_MONT_CTX_set
3448 so that BN_mod_exp_mont and BN_mod_exp_mont_word work
3449 for negative moduli.
3452 *) Fix BN_uadd and BN_usub: Always return non-negative results instead
3453 of not touching the result's sign bit.
3456 *) BN_div bugfix: If the result is 0, the sign (res->neg) must not be
3460 *) Changed the LHASH code to use prototypes for callbacks, and created
3461 macros to declare and implement thin (optionally static) functions
3462 that provide type-safety and avoid function pointer casting for the
3463 type-specific callbacks.
3466 *) Added Kerberos Cipher Suites to be used with TLS, as written in
3468 [Veers Staats <staatsvr@asc.hpc.mil>,
3469 Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@columbia.edu>, via Richard Levitte]
3471 *) Reformat the FAQ so the different questions and answers can be divided
3472 in sections depending on the subject.
3475 *) Have the zlib compression code load ZLIB.DLL dynamically under
3479 *) New function BN_mod_sqrt for computing square roots modulo a prime
3480 (using the probabilistic Tonelli-Shanks algorithm unless
3481 p == 3 (mod 4) or p == 5 (mod 8), which are cases that can
3482 be handled deterministically).
3483 [Lenka Fibikova <fibikova@exp-math.uni-essen.de>, Bodo Moeller]
3485 *) Make BN_mod_inverse faster by explicitly handling small quotients
3486 in the Euclid loop. (Speed gain about 20% for small moduli [256 or
3487 512 bits], about 30% for larger ones [1024 or 2048 bits].)
3490 *) New function BN_kronecker.
3493 *) Fix BN_gcd so that it works on negative inputs; the result is
3494 positive unless both parameters are zero.
3495 Previously something reasonably close to an infinite loop was
3496 possible because numbers could be growing instead of shrinking
3497 in the implementation of Euclid's algorithm.
3500 *) Fix BN_is_word() and BN_is_one() macros to take into account the
3501 sign of the number in question.
3503 Fix BN_is_word(a,w) to work correctly for w == 0.
3505 The old BN_is_word(a,w) macro is now called BN_abs_is_word(a,w)
3506 because its test if the absolute value of 'a' equals 'w'.
3507 Note that BN_abs_is_word does *not* handle w == 0 reliably;
3508 it exists mostly for use in the implementations of BN_is_zero(),
3509 BN_is_one(), and BN_is_word().
3512 *) New function BN_swap.
3515 *) Use BN_nnmod instead of BN_mod in crypto/bn/bn_exp.c so that
3516 the exponentiation functions are more likely to produce reasonable
3517 results on negative inputs.
3520 *) Change BN_mod_mul so that the result is always non-negative.
3521 Previously, it could be negative if one of the factors was negative;
3522 I don't think anyone really wanted that behaviour.
3525 *) Move BN_mod_... functions into new file crypto/bn/bn_mod.c
3526 (except for exponentiation, which stays in crypto/bn/bn_exp.c,
3527 and BN_mod_mul_reciprocal, which stays in crypto/bn/bn_recp.c)
3528 and add new functions:
3537 BN_mod_lshift1_quick
3541 These functions always generate non-negative results.
3543 BN_nnmod otherwise is like BN_mod (if BN_mod computes a remainder r
3544 such that |m| < r < 0, BN_nnmod will output rem + |m| instead).
3546 BN_mod_XXX_quick(r, a, [b,] m) generates the same result as
3547 BN_mod_XXX(r, a, [b,] m, ctx), but requires that a [and b]
3548 be reduced modulo m.
3549 [Lenka Fibikova <fibikova@exp-math.uni-essen.de>, Bodo Moeller]
3552 The following entry accidentily appeared in the CHANGES file
3553 distributed with OpenSSL 0.9.7. The modifications described in
3554 it do *not* apply to OpenSSL 0.9.7.
3556 *) Remove a few calls to bn_wexpand() in BN_sqr() (the one in there
3557 was actually never needed) and in BN_mul(). The removal in BN_mul()
3558 required a small change in bn_mul_part_recursive() and the addition
3559 of the functions bn_cmp_part_words(), bn_sub_part_words() and
3560 bn_add_part_words(), which do the same thing as bn_cmp_words(),
3561 bn_sub_words() and bn_add_words() except they take arrays with
3566 *) In 'openssl passwd', verify passwords read from the terminal
3567 unless the '-salt' option is used (which usually means that
3568 verification would just waste user's time since the resulting
3569 hash is going to be compared with some given password hash)
3570 or the new '-noverify' option is used.
3572 This is an incompatible change, but it does not affect
3573 non-interactive use of 'openssl passwd' (passwords on the command
3574 line, '-stdin' option, '-in ...' option) and thus should not
3578 *) Remove all references to RSAref, since there's no more need for it.
3581 *) Make DSO load along a path given through an environment variable
3582 (SHLIB_PATH) with shl_load().
3585 *) Constify the ENGINE code as a result of BIGNUM constification.