Changes between 0.9.5a and 0.9.6 [xx XXX 2000]
+ *) On VMS, stdout may very well lead to a file that is written to
+ in a record-oriented fashion. That means that every write() will
+ write a separate record, which will be read separately by the
+ programs trying to read from it. This can be very confusing.
+
+ The solution is to put a BIO filter in the way that will buffer
+ text until a linefeed is reached, and then write everything a
+ line at a time, so every record written will be an actual line,
+ not chunks of lines and not (usually doesn't happen, but I've
+ seen it once) several lines in one record. BIO_f_linebuffer() is
+ the answer.
+
+ Currently, it's a VMS-only method, because that's where it has
+ been tested well enough.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Remove 'optimized' squaring variant in BN_mod_mul_montgomery,
+ it can return incorrect results.
+ (Note: The buggy variant was not enabled in OpenSSL 0.9.5a,
+ but it was in 0.9.6-beta[12].)
+ [Bodo Moeller]
+
+ *) Disable the check for content being present when verifying detached
+ signatures in pk7_smime.c. Some versions of Netscape (wrongly)
+ include zero length content when signing messages.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) New BIO_shutdown_wr macro, which invokes the BIO_C_SHUTDOWN_WR
+ BIO_ctrl (for BIO pairs).
+
+ *) Add DSO method for VMS.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Bug fix: Montgomery multiplication could produce results with the
+ wrong sign.
+ [Ulf Möller]
+
+ *) Add RPM specification openssl.spec and modify it to build three
+ packages. The default package contains applications, application
+ documentation and run-time libraries. The devel package contains
+ include files, static libraries and function documentation. The
+ doc package contains the contents of the doc directory. The original
+ openssl.spec was provided by Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Add a large number of documentation files for many SSL routines.
+ [Lutz Jaenicke <Lutz.Jaenicke@aet.TU-Cottbus.DE>]
+
+ *) Add a configuration entry for Sony News 4.
+ [NAKAJI Hiroyuki <nakaji@tutrp.tut.ac.jp>]
+
+ *) Don't set the two most significant bits to one when generating a
+ random number < q in the DSA library.
+ [Ulf Möller]
+
+ *) New SSL API mode 'SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY'. This disables the default
+ behaviour that SSL_read may result in SSL_ERROR_WANT_READ (even if
+ the underlying transport is blocking) if a handshake took place.
+ (The default behaviour is needed by applications such as s_client
+ and s_server that use select() to determine when to use SSL_read;
+ but for applications that know in advance when to expect data, it
+ just makes things more complicated.)
+ [Bodo Moeller]
+
+ *) Add RAND_egd_bytes(), which gives control over the number of bytes read
+ from EGD.
+ [Ben Laurie]
+
+ *) Add a few more EBCDIC conditionals that make `req' and `x509'
+ work better on such systems.
+ [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@MchP.Siemens.De>]
+
+ *) Add two demo programs for PKCS12_parse() and PKCS12_create().
+ Update PKCS12_parse() so it copies the friendlyName and the
+ keyid to the certificates aux info.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Fix bug in PKCS7_verify() which caused an infinite loop
+ if there was more than one signature.
+ [Sven Uszpelkat <su@celocom.de>]
+
+ *) Major change in util/mkdef.pl to include extra information
+ about each symbol, as well as presentig variables as well
+ as functions. This change means that there's n more need
+ to rebuild the .num files when some algorithms are excluded.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Allow the verify time to be set by an application,
+ rather than always using the current time.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Phase 2 verify code reorganisation. The certificate
+ verify code now looks up an issuer certificate by a
+ number of criteria: subject name, authority key id
+ and key usage. It also verifies self signed certificates
+ by the same criteria. The main comparison function is
+ X509_check_issued() which performs these checks.
+
+ Lot of changes were necessary in order to support this
+ without completely rewriting the lookup code.
+
+ Authority and subject key identifier are now cached.
+
+ The LHASH 'certs' is X509_STORE has now been replaced
+ by a STACK_OF(X509_OBJECT). This is mainly because an
+ LHASH can't store or retrieve multiple objects with
+ the same hash value.
+
+ As a result various functions (which were all internal
+ use only) have changed to handle the new X509_STORE
+ structure. This will break anything that messed round
+ with X509_STORE internally.
+
+ The functions X509_STORE_add_cert() now checks for an
+ exact match, rather than just subject name.
+
+ The X509_STORE API doesn't directly support the retrieval
+ of multiple certificates matching a given criteria, however
+ this can be worked round by performing a lookup first
+ (which will fill the cache with candidate certificates)
+ and then examining the cache for matches. This is probably
+ the best we can do without throwing out X509_LOOKUP
+ entirely (maybe later...).
+
+ The X509_VERIFY_CTX structure has been enhanced considerably.
+
+ All certificate lookup operations now go via a get_issuer()
+ callback. Although this currently uses an X509_STORE it
+ can be replaced by custom lookups. This is a simple way
+ to bypass the X509_STORE hackery necessary to make this
+ work and makes it possible to use more efficient techniques
+ in future. A very simple version which uses a simple
+ STACK for its trusted certificate store is also provided
+ using X509_STORE_CTX_trusted_stack().
+
+ The verify_cb() and verify() callbacks now have equivalents
+ in the X509_STORE_CTX structure.
+
+ X509_STORE_CTX also has a 'flags' field which can be used
+ to customise the verify behaviour.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Add new PKCS#7 signing option PKCS7_NOSMIMECAP which
+ excludes S/MIME capabilities.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) When a certificate request is read in keep a copy of the
+ original encoding of the signed data and use it when outputing
+ again. Signatures then use the original encoding rather than
+ a decoded, encoded version which may cause problems if the
+ request is improperly encoded.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) For consistency with other BIO_puts implementations, call
+ buffer_write(b, ...) directly in buffer_puts instead of calling
+ BIO_write(b, ...).
+
+ In BIO_puts, increment b->num_write as in BIO_write.
+ [Peter.Sylvester@EdelWeb.fr]
+
+ *) Fix BN_mul_word for the case where the word is 0. (We have to use
+ BN_zero, we may not return a BIGNUM with an array consisting of
+ words set to zero.)
+ [Bodo Moeller]
+
+ *) Avoid calling abort() from within the library when problems are
+ detected, except if preprocessor symbols have been defined
+ (such as REF_CHECK, BN_DEBUG etc.).
+ [Bodo Moeller]
+
+ *) New openssl application 'rsautl'. This utility can be
+ used for low level RSA operations. DER public key
+ BIO/fp routines also added.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) New Configure entry and patches for compiling on QNX 4.
+ [Andreas Schneider <andreas@ds3.etech.fh-hamburg.de>]
+
+ *) A demo state-machine implementation was sponsored by
+ Nuron (http://www.nuron.com/) and is now available in
+ demos/state_machine.
+ [Ben Laurie]
+
+ *) New options added to the 'dgst' utility for signature
+ generation and verification.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Unrecognized PKCS#7 content types are now handled via a
+ catch all ASN1_TYPE structure. This allows unsupported
+ types to be stored as a "blob" and an application can
+ encode and decode it manually.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Fix various signed/unsigned issues to make a_strex.c
+ compile under VC++.
+ [Oscar Jacobsson <oscar.jacobsson@celocom.com>]
+
+ *) ASN1 fixes. i2d_ASN1_OBJECT was not returning the correct
+ length if passed a buffer. ASN1_INTEGER_to_BN failed
+ if passed a NULL BN and its argument was negative.
+ [Steve Henson, pointed out by Sven Heiberg <sven@tartu.cyber.ee>]
+
+ *) Modification to PKCS#7 encoding routines to output definite
+ length encoding. Since currently the whole structures are in
+ memory there's not real point in using indefinite length
+ constructed encoding. However if OpenSSL is compiled with
+ the flag PKCS7_INDEFINITE_ENCODING the old form is used.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Added BIO_vprintf() and BIO_vsnprintf().
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Added more prefixes to parse for in the the strings written
+ through a logging bio, to cover all the levels that are available
+ through syslog. The prefixes are now:
+
+ PANIC, EMERG, EMR => LOG_EMERG
+ ALERT, ALR => LOG_ALERT
+ CRIT, CRI => LOG_CRIT
+ ERROR, ERR => LOG_ERR
+ WARNING, WARN, WAR => LOG_WARNING
+ NOTICE, NOTE, NOT => LOG_NOTICE
+ INFO, INF => LOG_INFO
+ DEBUG, DBG => LOG_DEBUG
+
+ and as before, if none of those prefixes are present at the
+ beginning of the string, LOG_ERR is chosen.
+
+ On Win32, the LOG_* levels are mapped according to this:
+
+ LOG_EMERG, LOG_ALERT, LOG_CRIT, LOG_ERR => EVENTLOG_ERROR_TYPE
+ LOG_WARNING => EVENTLOG_WARNING_TYPE
+ LOG_NOTICE, LOG_INFO, LOG_DEBUG => EVENTLOG_INFORMATION_TYPE
+
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Made it possible to reconfigure with just the configuration
+ argument "reconf" or "reconfigure". The command line arguments
+ are stored in Makefile.ssl in the variable CONFIGURE_ARGS,
+ and are retrieved from there when reconfiguring.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) MD4 implemented.
+ [Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>, Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Add the arguments -CAfile and -CApath to the pkcs12 utility.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) The obj_dat.pl script was messing up the sorting of object
+ names. The reason was that it compared the quoted version
+ of strings as a result "OCSP" > "OCSP Signing" because
+ " > SPACE. Changed script to store unquoted versions of
+ names and add quotes on output. It was also omitting some
+ names from the lookup table if they were given a default
+ value (that is if SN is missing it is given the same
+ value as LN and vice versa), these are now added on the
+ grounds that if an object has a name we should be able to
+ look it up. Finally added warning output when duplicate
+ short or long names are found.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Changes needed for Tandem NSK.
+ [Scott Uroff scott@xypro.com]
+
+ *) Fix SSL 2.0 rollback checking: Due to an off-by-one error in
+ RSA_padding_check_SSLv23(), special padding was never detected
+ and thus the SSL 3.0/TLS 1.0 countermeasure against protocol
+ version rollback attacks was not effective.
+
+ In s23_clnt.c, don't use special rollback-attack detection padding
+ (RSA_SSLV23_PADDING) if SSL 2.0 is the only protocol enabled in the
+ client; similarly, in s23_srvr.c, don't do the rollback check if
+ SSL 2.0 is the only protocol enabled in the server.
+ [Bodo Moeller]
+
+ *) Make it possible to get hexdumps of unprintable data with 'openssl
+ asn1parse'. By implication, the functions ASN1_parse_dump() and
+ BIO_dump_indent() are added.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) New functions ASN1_STRING_print_ex() and X509_NAME_print_ex()
+ these print out strings and name structures based on various
+ flags including RFC2253 support and proper handling of
+ multibyte characters. Added options to the 'x509' utility
+ to allow the various flags to be set.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Various fixes to use ASN1_TIME instead of ASN1_UTCTIME.
+ Also change the functions X509_cmp_current_time() and
+ X509_gmtime_adj() work with an ASN1_TIME structure,
+ this will enable certificates using GeneralizedTime in validity
+ dates to be checked.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Make the NEG_PUBKEY_BUG code (which tolerates invalid
+ negative public key encodings) on by default,
+ NO_NEG_PUBKEY_BUG can be set to disable it.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) New function c2i_ASN1_OBJECT() which acts on ASN1_OBJECT
+ content octets. An i2c_ASN1_OBJECT is unnecessary because
+ the encoding can be trivially obtained from the structure.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) crypto/err.c locking bugfix: Use write locks (CRYPTO_w_[un]lock),
+ not read locks (CRYPTO_r_[un]lock).
+ [Bodo Moeller]
+
+ *) A first attempt at creating official support for shared
+ libraries through configuration. I've kept it so the
+ default is static libraries only, and the OpenSSL programs
+ are always statically linked for now, but there are
+ preparations for dynamic linking in place.
+ This has been tested on Linux and True64.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Randomness polling function for Win9x, as described in:
+ Peter Gutmann, Software Generation of Practically Strong
+ Random Numbers.
+ [Ulf Möller]
+
+ *) Fix so PRNG is seeded in req if using an already existing
+ DSA key.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) New options to smime application. -inform and -outform
+ allow alternative formats for the S/MIME message including
+ PEM and DER. The -content option allows the content to be
+ specified separately. This should allow things like Netscape
+ form signing output easier to verify.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Fix the ASN1 encoding of tags using the 'long form'.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) New ASN1 functions, i2c_* and c2i_* for INTEGER and BIT
+ STRING types. These convert content octets to and from the
+ underlying type. The actual tag and length octets are
+ already assumed to have been read in and checked. These
+ are needed because all other string types have virtually
+ identical handling apart from the tag. By having versions
+ of the ASN1 functions that just operate on content octets
+ IMPLICIT tagging can be handled properly. It also allows
+ the ASN1_ENUMERATED code to be cut down because ASN1_ENUMERATED
+ and ASN1_INTEGER are identical apart from the tag.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Change the handling of OID objects as follows:
+
+ - New object identifiers are inserted in objects.txt, following
+ the syntax given in objects.README.
+ - objects.pl is used to process obj_mac.num and create a new
+ obj_mac.h.
+ - obj_dat.pl is used to create a new obj_dat.h, using the data in
+ obj_mac.h.
+
+ This is currently kind of a hack, and the perl code in objects.pl
+ isn't very elegant, but it works as I intended. The simplest way
+ to check that it worked correctly is to look in obj_dat.h and
+ check the array nid_objs and make sure the objects haven't moved
+ around (this is important!). Additions are OK, as well as
+ consistent name changes.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) Add BSD-style MD5-based passwords to 'openssl passwd' (option '-1').
+ [Bodo Moeller]
+
+ *) Addition of the command line parameter '-rand file' to 'openssl req'.
+ The given file adds to whatever has already been seeded into the
+ random pool through the RANDFILE configuration file option or
+ environment variable, or the default random state file.
+ [Richard Levitte]
+
+ *) mkstack.pl now sorts each macro group into lexical order.
+ Previously the output order depended on the order the files
+ appeared in the directory, resulting in needless rewriting
+ of safestack.h .
+ [Steve Henson]
+
+ *) Patches to make OpenSSL compile under Win32 again. Mostly
+ work arounds for the VC++ problem that it treats func() as
+ func(void). Also stripped out the parts of mkdef.pl that
+ added extra typesafe functions: these no longer exist.
+ [Steve Henson]
+
*) Reorganisation of the stack code. The macros are now all
collected in safestack.h . Each macro is defined in terms of
a "stack macro" of the form SKM_<name>(type, a, b). The
then the non typesafe macros are used instead. Also modified the
mkstack.pl script to handle the new form. Needs testing to see
if which (if any) compilers it chokes and maybe make DEBUG_SAFESTACK
- the default if no major problems. Also need analagous stuff for
- ASN1_SET_OF etc.
+ the default if no major problems. Similar behaviour for ASN1_SET_OF
+ and PKCS12_STACK_OF.
[Steve Henson]
*) When some versions of IIS use the 'NET' form of private key the
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