X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=CHANGES;h=e37d299dee18c0eb14261375d967b04a7f77e89c;hp=aca771190c18a8137404531b1098e43ac96603bd;hb=78a0c1f18d5a1f0e51b7467ef7b153b8c29fbb03;hpb=3ab56511120b7a67ed4e4dbac9d60e5d1520a453 diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index aca771190c..e37d299dee 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -1,9 +1,176 @@ - OpenSSL CHANGES _______________ Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.7 [xx XXX 2000] + *) New function BN_swap. + [Bodo Moeller] + + *) Use BN_nnmod instead of BN_mod in crypto/bn/bn_exp.c so that + the exponentiation functions are more likely to produce reasonable + results on negative inputs. + [Bodo Moeller] + + *) Change BN_mod_mul so that the result is always non-negative. + Previously, it could be negative if one of the factors was negative; + I don't think anyone really wanted that behaviour. + [Bodo Moeller] + + *) Move BN_mod_... functions into new file crypto/bn/bn_mod.c + (except for exponentation, which stays in crypto/bn/bn_exp.c, + and BN_mod_mul_reciprocal, which stays in crypto/bn/bn_recp.c) + and add new functions: + BN_nnmod + BN_mod_sqr + BN_mod_add + BN_mod_sub + These functions always generate non-negative results. + BN_nnmod otherwise is like BN_mod (if BN_mod computes a remainder r + such that |m| < r < 0, BN_nnmod will output rem + |m| instead). + [Lenka Fibikova , Bodo Moeller] + + *) Remove a few calls to bn_wexpand() in BN_sqr() (the one in there + was actually never needed) and in BN_mul(). The removal in BN_mul() + required a small change in bn_mul_part_recursive() and the addition + of the static functions bn_cmp_part_words(), bn_sub_part_words() + and bn_add_part_words() which do the same thing as bn_cmp_words(), + bn_sub_words() and bn_add_words() except they take arrays with + differing sizes. + [Richard Levitte] + + *) In 'openssl passwd', verify passwords read from the terminal + unless the '-salt' option is used (which usually means that + verification would just waste user's time since the resulting + hash is going to be compared with some given password hash) + or the new '-noverify' option is used. + + This is an incompatible change, but it does not affect + non-interactive use of 'openssl passwd' (passwords on the command + line, '-stdin' option, '-in ...' option) and thus should not + cause any problems. + [Bodo Moeller] + + *) Remove all references to RSAref, since there's no more need for it. + [Richard Levitte] + + *) Increase BN_CTX_NUM (the number of BIGNUMs in a BN_CTX) to 16. + The previous value, 12, was not always sufficient for BN_mod_exp(). + [Bodo Moeller] + + *) Make DSO load along a path given through an environment variable + (SHLIB_PATH) with shl_load(). + [Richard Levitte] + + *) Constify the ENGINE code as a result of BIGNUM constification. + Also constify the RSA code and most things related to it. In a + few places, most notable in the depth of the ASN.1 code, ugly + casts back to non-const were required (to be solved at a later + time) + [Richard Levitte] + + *) Make it so the openssl application has all engines loaded by default. + [Richard Levitte] + + *) Constify the BIGNUM routines a little more. + [Richard Levitte] + + *) Make sure that shared libraries get the internal name engine with + the full version number and not just 0. This should mark the + shared libraries as not backward compatible. Of course, this should + be changed again when we can guarantee backward binary compatibility. + [Richard Levitte] + + *) Add the following functions: + + ENGINE_load_cswift() + ENGINE_load_chil() + ENGINE_load_atalla() + ENGINE_load_nuron() + ENGINE_load_builtin_engines() + + That way, an application can itself choose if external engines that + are built-in in OpenSSL shall ever be used or not. The benefit is + that applications won't have to be linked with libdl or other dso + libraries unless it's really needed. + + Changed 'openssl engine' to load all engines on demand. + Changed the engine header files to avoid the duplication of some + declarations (they differed!). + [Richard Levitte] + + *) 'openssl engine' can now list capabilities. + [Richard Levitte] + + *) Better error reporting in 'openssl engine'. + [Richard Levitte] + + *) Never call load_dh_param(NULL) in s_server. + [Bodo Moeller] + + *) Add engine application. It can currently list engines by name and + identity, and test if they are actually available. + [Richard Levitte] + + *) Add support for shared libraries under Irix. + [Albert Chin-A-Young ] + + *) Improve RPM specification file by forcing symbolic linking and making + sure the installed documentation is also owned by root.root. + [Damien Miller ] + + *) Add configuration option to build on Linux on both big-endian and + little-endian MIPS. + [Ralf Baechle ] + + *) Give the OpenSSL applications more possibilities to make use of + keys (public as well as private) handled by engines. + [Richard Levitte] + + *) Add OCSP code that comes from CertCo. + [Richard Levitte] + + *) Add VMS support for the Rijndael code. + [Richard Levitte] + + *) Added untested support for Nuron crypto accelerator. + [Ben Laurie] + + *) Add support for external cryptographic devices. This code was + previously distributed separately as the "engine" branch. + [Geoff Thorpe, Richard Levitte] + + *) Rework the filename-translation in the DSO code. It is now possible to + have far greater control over how a "name" is turned into a filename + depending on the operating environment and any oddities about the + different shared library filenames on each system. + [Geoff Thorpe] + + *) Support threads on FreeBSD-elf in Configure. + [Richard Levitte] + + *) Add the possibility to create shared libraries on HP-UX + [Richard Levitte] + + *) Fix for SHA1 assembly problem with MASM: it produces + warnings about corrupt line number information when assembling + with debugging information. This is caused by the overlapping + of two sections. + [Bernd Matthes , Steve Henson] + + *) NCONF changes. + NCONF_get_number() has no error checking at all. As a replacement, + NCONF_get_number_e() is defined (_e for "error checking") and is + promoted strongly. The old NCONF_get_number is kept around for + binary backward compatibility. + Make it possible for methods to load from something other than a BIO, + by providing a function pointer that is given a name instead of a BIO. + For example, this could be used to load configuration data from an + LDAP server. + [Richard Levitte] + + *) Fix typo in get_cert_by_subject() in by_dir.c + [Jean-Marc Desperrier ] + *) Rework the system to generate shared libraries: - Make note of the expected extension for the shared libraries and