+ Changes between 0.9.7c and 0.9.8 [xx XXX xxxx]
+
+ *) Update support for ECC-based TLS ciphersuites according to
+ draft-ietf-tls-ecc-03.txt: the KDF1 key derivation function with
+ SHA-1 now is only used for "small" curves (where the
+ representation of a field element takes up to 24 bytes); for
+ larger curves, the field element resulting from ECDH is directly
+ used as premaster secret.
+ [Douglas Stebila (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
+
+ *) Add code for kP+lQ timings to crypto/ec/ectest.c, and add SEC2
+ curve secp160r1 to the tests.
+ [Douglas Stebila (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
+
+ *) Add the possibility to load symbols globally with DSO.
+ [Götz Babin-Ebell <babin-ebell@trustcenter.de> via Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Add the functions ERR_set_mark() and ERR_pop_to_mark() for better
+ control of the error stack.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Add support for STORE in ENGINE.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Add the STORE type. The intention is to provide a common interface
+ to certificate and key stores, be they simple file-based stores, or
+ HSM-type store, or LDAP stores, or...
+ NOTE: The code is currently UNTESTED and isn't really used anywhere.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Add a generic structure called OPENSSL_ITEM. This can be used to
+ pass a list of arguments to any function as well as provide a way
+ for a function to pass data back to the caller.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Add the functions BUF_strndup() and BUF_memdup(). BUF_strndup()
+ works like BUF_strdup() but can be used to duplicate a portion of
+ a string. The copy gets NUL-terminated. BUF_memdup() duplicates
+ a memory area.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Add the function sk_find_ex() which works like sk_find(), but will
+ return an index to an element even if an exact match couldn't be
+ found. The index is guaranteed to point at the element where the
+ searched-for key would be inserted to preserve sorting order.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Add the function OBJ_bsearch_ex() which works like OBJ_bsearch() but
+ takes an extra flags argument for optional functionality. Currently,
+ the following flags are defined:
+
+ OBJ_BSEARCH_VALUE_ON_NOMATCH
+ This one gets OBJ_bsearch_ex() to return a pointer to the first
+ element where the comparing function returns a negative or zero
+ number.
+
+ OBJ_BSEARCH_FIRST_VALUE_ON_MATCH
+ This one gets OBJ_bsearch_ex() to return a pointer to the first
+ element where the comparing function returns zero. This is useful
+ if there are more than one element where the comparing function
+ returns zero.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Make it possible to create self-signed certificates with 'openssl ca'
+ in such a way that the self-signed certificate becomes part of the
+ CA database and uses the same mechanisms for serial number generation
+ as all other certificate signing. The new flag '-selfsign' enables
+ this functionality. Adapt CA.sh and CA.pl.in.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Add functionality to check the public key of a certificate request
+ against a given private. This is useful to check that a certificate
+ request can be signed by that key (self-signing).
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Make it possible to have multiple active certificates with the same
+ subject in the CA index file. This is done only if the keyword
+ 'unique_subject' is set to 'no' in the main CA section (default
+ if 'CA_default') of the configuration file. The value is saved
+ with the database itself in a separate index attribute file,
+ named like the index file with '.attr' appended to the name.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Generate muti valued AVAs using '+' notation in config files for
+ req and dirName.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Support for nameConstraints certificate extension.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Support for policyConstraints certificate extension.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Support for policyMappings certificate extension.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Fixed a typo bug that would cause ENGINE_set_default() to set an
+ ENGINE as defaults for all supported algorithms irrespective of
+ the 'flags' parameter. 'flags' is now honoured, so applications
+ should make sure they are passing it correctly.
+ [Geoff Thorpe]
+
+ *) Make sure the default DSA_METHOD implementation only uses its
+ dsa_mod_exp() and/or bn_mod_exp() handlers if they are non-NULL,
+ and change its own handlers to be NULL so as to remove unnecessary
+ indirection. This lets alternative implementations fallback to the
+ default implementation more easily.
+ [Geoff Thorpe]
+
+ *) Support for directoryName in GeneralName related extensions
+ in config files.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Make it possible to link applications using Makefile.shared.
+ Make that possible even when linking against static libraries!
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Support for single pass processing for S/MIME signing. This now
+ means that S/MIME signing can be done from a pipe, in addition
+ cleartext signing (multipart/signed type) is effectively streaming
+ and the signed data does not need to be all held in memory.
+
+ This is done with a new flag PKCS7_STREAM. When this flag is set
+ PKCS7_sign() only initializes the PKCS7 structure and the actual signing
+ is done after the data is output (and digests calculated) in
+ SMIME_write_PKCS7().
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Add full support for -rpath/-R, both in shared libraries and
+ applications, at least on the platforms where it's known how
+ to do it.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) In crypto/ec/ec_mult.c, implement fast point multiplication with
+ precomputation, based on wNAF splitting: EC_GROUP_precompute_mult()
+ will now compute a table of multiples of the generator that
+ makes subsequent invocations of EC_POINTs_mul() or EC_POINT_mul()
+ faster (notably in the case of a single point multiplication,
+ scalar * generator).
+ [Nils Larsch, Bodo Moeller]
+
+ *) IPv6 support for certificate extensions. The various extensions
+ which use the IP:a.b.c.d can now take IPv6 addresses using the
+ formats of RFC1884 2.2 . IPv6 addresses are now also displayed
+ correctly.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Added an ENGINE that implements RSA by performing private key
+ exponentiations with the GMP library. The conversions to and from
+ GMP's mpz_t format aren't optimised nor are any montgomery forms
+ cached, and on x86 it appears OpenSSL's own performance has caught up.
+ However there are likely to be other architectures where GMP could
+ provide a boost. This ENGINE is not built in by default, but it can be
+ specified at Configure time and should be accompanied by the necessary
+ linker additions, eg;
+ ./config -DOPENSSL_USE_GMP -lgmp
+ [Geoff Thorpe]
+
+ *) "openssl engine" will not display ENGINE/DSO load failure errors when
+ testing availability of engines with "-t" - the old behaviour is
+ produced by increasing the feature's verbosity with "-tt".
+ [Geoff Thorpe]
+
+ *) ECDSA routines: under certain error conditions uninitialized BN objects
+ could be freed. Solution: make sure initialization is performed early
+ enough. (Reported and fix supplied by Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de>
+ via PR#459)
+ [Lutz Jaenicke]
+
+ *) Key-generation can now be implemented in RSA_METHOD, DSA_METHOD
+ and DH_METHOD (eg. by ENGINE implementations) to override the normal
+ software implementations. For DSA and DH, parameter generation can
+ also be overriden by providing the appropriate method callbacks.
+ [Geoff Thorpe]
+
+ *) Change the "progress" mechanism used in key-generation and
+ primality testing to functions that take a new BN_GENCB pointer in
+ place of callback/argument pairs. The new API functions have "_ex"
+ postfixes and the older functions are reimplemented as wrappers for
+ the new ones. The OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED symbol can be used to hide
+ declarations of the old functions to help (graceful) attempts to
+ migrate to the new functions. Also, the new key-generation API
+ functions operate on a caller-supplied key-structure and return
+ success/failure rather than returning a key or NULL - this is to
+ help make "keygen" another member function of RSA_METHOD etc.
+
+ Example for using the new callback interface:
+
+ int (*my_callback)(int a, int b, BN_GENCB *cb) = ...;
+ void *my_arg = ...;
+ BN_GENCB my_cb;
+
+ BN_GENCB_set(&my_cb, my_callback, my_arg);
+
+ return BN_is_prime_ex(some_bignum, BN_prime_checks, NULL, &cb);
+ /* For the meaning of a, b in calls to my_callback(), see the
+ * documentation of the function that calls the callback.
+ * cb will point to my_cb; my_arg can be retrieved as cb->arg.
+ * my_callback should return 1 if it wants BN_is_prime_ex()
+ * to continue, or 0 to stop.
+ */
+
+ [Geoff Thorpe]
+
+ *) Change the ZLIB compression method to be stateful, and make it
+ available to TLS with the number defined in
+ draft-ietf-tls-compression-04.txt.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Add the ASN.1 structures and functions for CertificatePair, which
+ is defined as follows (according to X.509_4thEditionDraftV6.pdf):
+
+ CertificatePair ::= SEQUENCE {
+ forward [0] Certificate OPTIONAL,
+ reverse [1] Certificate OPTIONAL,
+ -- at least one of the pair shall be present -- }
+
+ Also implement the PEM functions to read and write certificate
+ pairs, and defined the PEM tag as "CERTIFICATE PAIR".
+
+ This needed to be defined, mostly for the sake of the LDAP
+ attribute crossCertificatePair, but may prove useful elsewhere as
+ well.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Make it possible to inhibit symlinking of shared libraries in
+ Makefile.shared, for Cygwin's sake.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Extend the BIGNUM API by creating new macros that behave like
+ functions
+
+ void BN_set_sign(BIGNUM *a, int neg);
+ int BN_get_sign(const BIGNUM *a);
+
+ and avoid the need to access 'a->neg' directly in applications.
+ [Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de>]
+
+ *) Implement fast modular reduction for pseudo-Mersenne primes
+ used in NIST curves (crypto/bn/bn_nist.c, crypto/ec/ecp_nist.c).
+ EC_GROUP_new_curve_GFp() will now automatically use this
+ if applicable.
+ [Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de>]
+
+ *) Add new lock type (CRYPTO_LOCK_BN).
+ [Bodo Moeller]
+
+ *) Change the ENGINE framework to automatically load engines
+ dynamically from specific directories unless they could be
+ found to already be built in or loaded. Move all the
+ current engines except for the cryptodev one to a new
+ directory engines/.
+ The engines in engines/ are built as shared libraries if
+ the "shared" options was given to ./Configure or ./config.
+ Otherwise, they are inserted in libcrypto.a.
+ /usr/local/ssl/engines is the default directory for dynamic
+ engines, but that can be overriden at configure time through
+ the usual use of --prefix and/or --openssldir, and at run
+ time with the environment variable OPENSSL_ENGINES.
+ [Geoff Thorpe and Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Add Makefile.shared, a helper makefile to build shared
+ libraries. Addapt Makefile.org.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Add version info to Win32 DLLs.
+ [Peter 'Luna' Runestig" <peter@runestig.com>]
+
+ *) Add new 'medium level' PKCS#12 API. Certificates and keys
+ can be added using this API to created arbitrary PKCS#12
+ files while avoiding the low level API.
+
+ New options to PKCS12_create(), key or cert can be NULL and
+ will then be omitted from the output file. The encryption
+ algorithm NIDs can be set to -1 for no encryption, the mac
+ iteration count can be set to 0 to omit the mac.
+
+ Enhance pkcs12 utility by making the -nokeys and -nocerts
+ options work when creating a PKCS#12 file. New option -nomac
+ to omit the mac, NONE can be set for an encryption algorithm.
+ New code is modified to use the enhanced PKCS12_create()
+ instead of the low level API.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Extend ASN1 encoder to support indefinite length constructed
+ encoding. This can output sequences tags and octet strings in
+ this form. Modify pk7_asn1.c to support indefinite length
+ encoding. This is experimental and needs additional code to
+ be useful, such as an ASN1 bio and some enhanced streaming
+ PKCS#7 code.
+
+ Extend template encode functionality so that tagging is passed
+ down to the template encoder.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Let 'openssl req' fail if an argument to '-newkey' is not
+ recognized instead of using RSA as a default.
+ [Bodo Moeller]
+
+ *) Add support for ECC-based ciphersuites from draft-ietf-tls-ecc-01.txt.
+ As these are not official, they are not included in "ALL";
+ the "ECCdraft" ciphersuite group alias can be used to select them.
+ [Vipul Gupta and Sumit Gupta (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
+
+ *) Add ECDH engine support.
+ [Nils Gura and Douglas Stebila (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
+
+ *) Add ECDH in new directory crypto/ecdh/.
+ [Douglas Stebila (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
+
+ *) Let BN_rand_range() abort with an error after 100 iterations
+ without success (which indicates a broken PRNG).
+ [Bodo Moeller]
+
+ *) Change BN_mod_sqrt() so that it verifies that the input value
+ is really the square of the return value. (Previously,
+ BN_mod_sqrt would show GIGO behaviour.)
+ [Bodo Moeller]
+
+ *) Add named elliptic curves over binary fields from X9.62, SECG,
+ and WAP/WTLS; add OIDs that were still missing.
+
+ [Sheueling Chang Shantz and Douglas Stebila
+ (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
+
+ *) Extend the EC library for elliptic curves over binary fields
+ (new files ec2_smpl.c, ec2_smpt.c, ec2_mult.c in crypto/ec/).
+ New EC_METHOD:
+
+ EC_GF2m_simple_method
+
+ New API functions:
+
+ EC_GROUP_new_curve_GF2m
+ EC_GROUP_set_curve_GF2m
+ EC_GROUP_get_curve_GF2m
+ EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates_GF2m
+ EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates_GF2m
+ EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates_GF2m
+
+ Point compression for binary fields is disabled by default for
+ patent reasons (compile with OPENSSL_EC_BIN_PT_COMP defined to
+ enable it).
+
+ As binary polynomials are represented as BIGNUMs, various members
+ of the EC_GROUP and EC_POINT data structures can be shared
+ between the implementations for prime fields and binary fields;
+ the above ..._GF2m functions (except for EX_GROUP_new_curve_GF2m)
+ are essentially identical to their ..._GFp counterparts.
+ (For simplicity, the '..._GFp' prefix has been dropped from
+ various internal method names.)
+
+ An internal 'field_div' method (similar to 'field_mul' and
+ 'field_sqr') has been added; this is used only for binary fields.
+
+ [Sheueling Chang Shantz and Douglas Stebila
+ (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
+
+ *) Optionally dispatch EC_POINT_mul(), EC_POINT_precompute_mult()
+ through methods ('mul', 'precompute_mult').
+
+ The generic implementations (now internally called 'ec_wNAF_mul'
+ and 'ec_wNAF_precomputed_mult') remain the default if these
+ methods are undefined.
+
+ [Sheueling Chang Shantz and Douglas Stebila
+ (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
+
+ *) New function EC_GROUP_get_degree, which is defined through
+ EC_METHOD. For curves over prime fields, this returns the bit
+ length of the modulus.
+
+ [Sheueling Chang Shantz and Douglas Stebila
+ (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
+
+ *) New functions EC_GROUP_dup, EC_POINT_dup.
+ (These simply call ..._new and ..._copy).
+
+ [Sheueling Chang Shantz and Douglas Stebila
+ (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
+
+ *) Add binary polynomial arithmetic software in crypto/bn/bn_gf2m.c.
+ Polynomials are represented as BIGNUMs (where the sign bit is not
+ used) in the following functions [macros]:
+
+ BN_GF2m_add
+ BN_GF2m_sub [= BN_GF2m_add]
+ BN_GF2m_mod [wrapper for BN_GF2m_mod_arr]
+ BN_GF2m_mod_mul [wrapper for BN_GF2m_mod_mul_arr]
+ BN_GF2m_mod_sqr [wrapper for BN_GF2m_mod_sqr_arr]
+ BN_GF2m_mod_inv
+ BN_GF2m_mod_exp [wrapper for BN_GF2m_mod_exp_arr]
+ BN_GF2m_mod_sqrt [wrapper for BN_GF2m_mod_sqrt_arr]
+ BN_GF2m_mod_solve_quad [wrapper for BN_GF2m_mod_solve_quad_arr]
+ BN_GF2m_cmp [= BN_ucmp]
+
+ (Note that only the 'mod' functions are actually for fields GF(2^m).
+ BN_GF2m_add() is misnomer, but this is for the sake of consistency.)
+
+ For some functions, an the irreducible polynomial defining a
+ field can be given as an 'unsigned int[]' with strictly
+ decreasing elements giving the indices of those bits that are set;
+ i.e., p[] represents the polynomial
+ f(t) = t^p[0] + t^p[1] + ... + t^p[k]
+ where
+ p[0] > p[1] > ... > p[k] = 0.
+ This applies to the following functions:
+
+ BN_GF2m_mod_arr
+ BN_GF2m_mod_mul_arr
+ BN_GF2m_mod_sqr_arr
+ BN_GF2m_mod_inv_arr [wrapper for BN_GF2m_mod_inv]
+ BN_GF2m_mod_div_arr [wrapper for BN_GF2m_mod_div]
+ BN_GF2m_mod_exp_arr
+ BN_GF2m_mod_sqrt_arr
+ BN_GF2m_mod_solve_quad_arr
+ BN_GF2m_poly2arr
+ BN_GF2m_arr2poly
+
+ Conversion can be performed by the following functions:
+
+ BN_GF2m_poly2arr
+ BN_GF2m_arr2poly
+
+ bntest.c has additional tests for binary polynomial arithmetic.
+
+ Two implementations for BN_GF2m_mod_div() are available.
+ The default algorithm simply uses BN_GF2m_mod_inv() and
+ BN_GF2m_mod_mul(). The alternative algorithm is compiled in only
+ if OPENSSL_SUN_GF2M_DIV is defined (patent pending; read the
+ copyright notice in crypto/bn/bn_gf2m.c before enabling it).
+
+ [Sheueling Chang Shantz and Douglas Stebila
+ (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)]
+
+ *) Add new error code 'ERR_R_DISABLED' that can be used when some
+ functionality is disabled at compile-time.
+ [Douglas Stebila <douglas.stebila@sun.com>]
+
+ *) Change default behaviour of 'openssl asn1parse' so that more
+ information is visible when viewing, e.g., a certificate:
+
+ Modify asn1_parse2 (crypto/asn1/asn1_par.c) so that in non-'dump'
+ mode the content of non-printable OCTET STRINGs is output in a
+ style similar to INTEGERs, but with '[HEX DUMP]' prepended to
+ avoid the appearance of a printable string.
+ [Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de>]
+
+ *) Add 'asn1_flag' and 'asn1_form' member to EC_GROUP with access
+ functions
+ EC_GROUP_set_asn1_flag()
+ EC_GROUP_get_asn1_flag()
+ EC_GROUP_set_point_conversion_form()
+ EC_GROUP_get_point_conversion_form()
+ These control ASN1 encoding details:
+ - Curves (i.e., groups) are encoded explicitly unless asn1_flag
+ has been set to OPENSSL_EC_NAMED_CURVE.
+ - Points are encoded in uncompressed form by default; options for
+ asn1_for are as for point2oct, namely
+ POINT_CONVERSION_COMPRESSED
+ POINT_CONVERSION_UNCOMPRESSED
+ POINT_CONVERSION_HYBRID
+
+ Also add 'seed' and 'seed_len' members to EC_GROUP with access
+ functions
+ EC_GROUP_set_seed()
+ EC_GROUP_get0_seed()
+ EC_GROUP_get_seed_len()
+ This is used only for ASN1 purposes (so far).
+ [Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de>]
+
+ *) Add 'field_type' member to EC_METHOD, which holds the NID
+ of the appropriate field type OID. The new function
+ EC_METHOD_get_field_type() returns this value.
+ [Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de>]
+
+ *) Add functions
+ EC_POINT_point2bn()
+ EC_POINT_bn2point()
+ EC_POINT_point2hex()
+ EC_POINT_hex2point()
+ providing useful interfaces to EC_POINT_point2oct() and
+ EC_POINT_oct2point().
+ [Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de>]
+
+ *) Change internals of the EC library so that the functions
+ EC_GROUP_set_generator()
+ EC_GROUP_get_generator()
+ EC_GROUP_get_order()
+ EC_GROUP_get_cofactor()
+ are implemented directly in crypto/ec/ec_lib.c and not dispatched
+ to methods, which would lead to unnecessary code duplication when
+ adding different types of curves.
+ [Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de> with input by Bodo Moeller]
+
+ *) Implement compute_wNAF (crypto/ec/ec_mult.c) without BIGNUM
+ arithmetic, and such that modified wNAFs are generated
+ (which avoid length expansion in many cases).
+ [Bodo Moeller]
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