Changes between 0.9.7c and 0.9.8 [xx XXX xxxx]
+ *) Reduce the chances of duplicate issuer name and serial numbers (in
+ violation of RFC3280) using the OpenSSL certificate creation utilities.
+ This is done by creating a random 64 bit value for the initial serial
+ number when a serial number file is created or when a self signed
+ certificate is created using 'openssl req -x509'. The initial serial
+ number file is now moved from CA.pl to the 'ca' utility with a new
+ option -create_serial.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Reduced header interdepencies by declaring more opaque objects in
+ ossl_typ.h. As a consequence, including some headers (eg. engine.h) will
+ give fewer recursive includes, which could break lazy source code - so
+ this change is covered by the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED symbol. As always,
+ developers should define this symbol when building and using openssl to
+ ensure they track the recommended behaviour, interfaces, [etc], but
+ backwards-compatible behaviour prevails when this isn't defined.
+ [Geoff Thorpe]
+
+ *) New function X509_POLICY_NODE_print() which prints out policy nodes.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Add new EVP function EVP_CIPHER_CTX_rand_key and associated functionality.
+ This will generate a random key of the appropriate length based on the
+ cipher context. The EVP_CIPHER can provide its own random key generation
+ routine to support keys of a specific form. This is used in the des and
+ 3des routines to generate a key of the correct parity. Update S/MIME
+ code to use new functions and hence generate correct parity DES keys.
+ Add EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY #define to return an error if the key is not
+ valid (weak or incorrect parity).
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Add a local set of CRLs that can be used by X509_verify_cert() as well
+ as looking them up. This is useful when the verified structure may contain
+ CRLs, for example PKCS#7 signedData. Modify PKCS7_verify() to use any CRLs
+ present unless the new PKCS7_NO_CRL flag is asserted.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Extend ASN1 oid configuration module. It now additionally accepts the
+ syntax:
+
+ shortName = some long name, 1.2.3.4
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Reimplemented the BN_CTX implementation. There is now no more static
+ limitation on the number of variables it can handle nor the depth of the
+ "stack" handling for BN_CTX_start()/BN_CTX_end() pairs. The stack
+ information can now expand as required, and rather than having a single
+ static array of bignums, BN_CTX now uses a linked-list of such arrays
+ allowing it to expand on demand whilst maintaining the usefulness of
+ BN_CTX's "bundling".
+ [Geoff Thorpe]
+
+ *) Add a missing BN_CTX parameter to the 'rsa_mod_exp' callback in RSA_METHOD
+ to allow all RSA operations to function using a single BN_CTX.
+ [Geoff Thorpe]
+
+ *) Preliminary support for certificate policy evaluation and checking. This
+ is initially intended to pass the tests outlined in "Conformance Testing
+ of Relying Party Client Certificate Path Processing Logic" v1.07.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) bn_dup_expand() has been deprecated, it was introduced in 0.9.7 and
+ remained unused and not that useful. A variety of other little bignum
+ tweaks and fixes have also been made continuing on from the audit (see
+ below).
+ [Geoff Thorpe]
+
+ *) Constify all or almost all d2i, c2i, s2i and r2i functions, along with
+ associated ASN1, EVP and SSL functions and old ASN1 macros.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
*) BN_zero() only needs to set 'top' and 'neg' to zero for correct results,
and this should never fail. So the return value from the use of
BN_set_word() (which can fail due to needless expansion) is now deprecated;
between threads, blinding will still be very fast).
[Bodo Moeller]
-yet to be integrated into this CVS branch:
-- Geoff's ENGINE_set_default() fix
-
*) Target "mingw" now allows native Windows code to be generated in
the Cygwin environment as well as with the MinGW compiler.
[Ulf Moeller]
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