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diff --git a/openssl/NEWS b/openssl/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..be4a266 --- /dev/null +++ b/openssl/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,799 @@ + + NEWS + ==== + + This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL + release. For more details please read the CHANGES file. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2j and OpenSSL 1.0.2k [26 Jan 2017] + + o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731) + o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732) + o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055) + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2i and OpenSSL 1.0.2j [26 Sep 2016] + + o Missing CRL sanity check (CVE-2016-7052) + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.0.2i [22 Sep 2016] + + o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304) + o SWEET32 Mitigation (CVE-2016-2183) + o OOB write in MDC2_Update() (CVE-2016-6303) + o Malformed SHA512 ticket DoS (CVE-2016-6302) + o OOB write in BN_bn2dec() (CVE-2016-2182) + o OOB read in TS_OBJ_print_bio() (CVE-2016-2180) + o Pointer arithmetic undefined behaviour (CVE-2016-2177) + o Constant time flag not preserved in DSA signing (CVE-2016-2178) + o DTLS buffered message DoS (CVE-2016-2179) + o DTLS replay protection DoS (CVE-2016-2181) + o Certificate message OOB reads (CVE-2016-6306) + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016] + + o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107) + o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105) + o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106) + o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109) + o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176) + o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername + callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN. + o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from + the default. + o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016] + + o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL. + o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers + (CVE-2016-0800) + o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705) + o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak + (CVE-2016-0798) + o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption + (CVE-2016-0797) + o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799) + o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702) + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016] + + o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701) + o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197) + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015] + + o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193) + o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194) + o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195) + o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs + o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short, + return an error + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015] + + o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793) + o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196) + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015] + + o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015] + + o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788) + o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789) + o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790) + o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792) + o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791) + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015] + + o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291) + o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290) + o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207) + o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286) + o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208) + o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287) + o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289) + o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293) + o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787) + o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285) + o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209) + o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288) + o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]: + + o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2 + o Support for DTLS 1.2 + o TLS automatic EC curve selection. + o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves + o SSL_CONF configuration API. + o TLS Brainpool support. + o ALPN support. + o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015] + + o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015] + + o Fix for CVE-2014-3571 + o Fix for CVE-2015-0206 + o Fix for CVE-2014-3569 + o Fix for CVE-2014-3572 + o Fix for CVE-2015-0204 + o Fix for CVE-2015-0205 + o Fix for CVE-2014-8275 + o Fix for CVE-2014-3570 + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014] + + o Fix for CVE-2014-3513 + o Fix for CVE-2014-3567 + o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability) + o Fix for CVE-2014-3568 + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014] + + o Fix for CVE-2014-3512 + o Fix for CVE-2014-3511 + o Fix for CVE-2014-3510 + o Fix for CVE-2014-3507 + o Fix for CVE-2014-3506 + o Fix for CVE-2014-3505 + o Fix for CVE-2014-3509 + o Fix for CVE-2014-5139 + o Fix for CVE-2014-3508 + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014] + + o Fix for CVE-2014-0224 + o Fix for CVE-2014-0221 + o Fix for CVE-2014-0198 + o Fix for CVE-2014-0195 + o Fix for CVE-2014-3470 + o Fix for CVE-2010-5298 + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014] + + o Fix for CVE-2014-0160 + o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers. + o Fix for CVE-2014-0076 + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014] + + o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values + o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353 + o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449 + o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450 + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]: + + o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169 + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]: + + o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version. + o Include the fips configuration module. + o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166 + o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169 + o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686 + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]: + + o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333 + o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]: + + o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms. + o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode. + o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0 + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]: + + o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 + o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos. + o Fix SEGV in AES code. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]: + + o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support. + o SCTP support. + o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter. + o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation. + o Next Protocol Negotiation. + o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs. + o Support for password based recipient info for CMS. + o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1. + o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module. + o SRP support. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]: + + o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884 + o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619 + o Various DTLS fixes. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]: + + o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050 + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]: + + o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108 + o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576 + o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619 + o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027 + o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577 + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]: + + o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207 + o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210 + o Protection against EC timing attacks. + o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms. + o Various DTLS fixes. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]: + + o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014 + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]: + + o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180 + o Fix for CVE-2010-4252 + o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension. + o Fix various platform compilation issues. + o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]: + + o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. + o Fix for CVE-2010-2939 + o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]: + + o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633. + o GOST MAC and CFB fixes. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]: + + o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests. + o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs. + o Change default private key format to PKCS#8. + o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134 + o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS. + o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS. + o ASN1 printing support. + o Whirlpool hash algorithm added. + o RFC3161 time stamp support. + o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms. + o New generalised public key API utilities. + o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms. + o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support. + o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support. + o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support. + o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites. + o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types. + o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types. + o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support. + o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]: + + o CFB cipher definition fixes. + o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]: + + o Cipher definition fixes. + o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions. + o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables. + o SPKAC handling fixes. + o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension. + o Compression memory leak fixed. + o Compression session resumption fixed. + o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes. + o Many fixes to DTLS handling. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]: + + o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]: + + o Fix various build issues. + o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789) + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]: + + o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077) + o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]: + + o CryptoAPI ENGINE support. + o Various precautionary measures. + o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation. + o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]: + + o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8. + o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]: + + o Add gcc 4.2 support. + o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization + for VC++ build. + o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly + selected at compile time. + o DTLS improvements. + o RFC4507bis support. + o TLS Extensions support. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]: + + o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. + o RFC3779 support. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]: + + o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) + o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) + o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]: + + o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 + o New cipher Camellia + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]: + + o Cipher string fixes. + o Fixes for VC++ 2005. + o Updated ECC cipher suite support. + o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free(). + o Zlib compression usage fixes. + o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32. + o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]: + + o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969 + o Extended Windows CE support + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]: + + o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to + make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This + is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library. + o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST + curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions. + o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including + the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE. + o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL + configuration file. + o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding. + o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files. + o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking + programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate + Makefile.shared. + o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another. + o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules + automatically from specifically given directories. + o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair. + o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful. + o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress" + mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker + function and an argument. + o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation). + o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3 + Nehemiah processors. + o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions. + See RFC 1884, section 2.2. + o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy + constraints and name constraints. + o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL + configuration file. + o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject + in the 'openssl ca' index file. + o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using + 'openssl ca -selfsign'. + o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with + 'openssl ca -create_serial'. + o New binary search functions with extended functionality. + o New BUF functions. + o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all + sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and + private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs. + This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing + OpenSSL. + o New control functions for the error stack. + o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME + processing. + o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated + functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the + 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts. + o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other + affected functions. + o Improved platform support for PowerPC. + o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512). + o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation + of X.509 path validation. + o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and + AMD64. + o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled + by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new + argument form 'enable-xxx'. + o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to + SHA-1. + o Added support for DTLS. + o New BIGNUM blinding. + o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme + o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding. + o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare. + o Added support for files larger than 2GB. + o Added initial support for Win64. + o Added alternate pkg-config files. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]: + + o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking. + o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]: + + o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) + o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]: + + o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]: + + o Visual C++ 2005 fixes. + o Update Windows build system for FIPS. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]: + + o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]: + + o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969 + o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing + o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]: + + o More compilation issues fixed. + o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API. + o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin. + o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module. + o More constification. + o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820). + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]: + + o Several compilation issues fixed. + o Many memory allocation failure checks added. + o Improved comparison of X509 Name type. + o Mandatory basic checks on certificates. + o Performance improvements. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]: + + o Fix race condition in CRL checking code. + o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]: + + o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug + o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec() + o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index + o Multiple X509 verification fixes + o Speed up HMAC and other operations + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]: + + o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. + o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility. + o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code. + o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]: + + o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of + Bleichbacher's attack + o Security: make RSA blinding default. + o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support. + o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc. + o Build: shared library support fixes. + o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly. + o Documentation: fixes and additions. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]: + + o Security: Important security related bugfixes. + o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos. + o Can be built without the ENGINE framework. + o IA32 assembler enhancements. + o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64. + o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly. + o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building. + o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]: + + o New library section OCSP. + o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code. + o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility. + o Extension copying in 'ca' utility. + o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility. + o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8. + o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer + a separate distribution. + o New elliptic curve library section. + o New AES (Rijndael) library section. + o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit, + Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9 + o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks + o Enhanced support for shared libraries. + o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested. + o Support for pkg-config. + o Lots of new manuals. + o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described + functions. + o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also + against libdes providing similar functions having the same name). + Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the + future). + o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine) + to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers. + o NCONF: new configuration handling routines. + o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking + and help optimizers. + o Finally remove references to RSAref. + o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code. + o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption + Processing, IBM 4758. + o A few new engines added in the demos area. + o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table. + o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for + EGD style random sources at several locations. + o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference. + o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids. + o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712). + Only supports MIT Kerberos for now. + o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions. + o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages. + o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268). + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]: + + o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. + o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]: + + o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of + Bleichbacher's attack + o Security: make RSA blinding default. + o Build: shared library support fixes. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]: + + o Important security related bugfixes. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]: + + o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX. + o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes. + o Better handling of SSL session caching. + o Better comparison of distinguished names. + o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment. + o Support assembler code with Borland C. + o Fixes for length problems. + o Fixes for uninitialised variables. + o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions. + o Fixes for smaller building problems. + o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]: + + o Important building fixes on Unix. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]: + + o Various important bugfixes. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]: + + o Important security related bugfixes. + o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]: + + o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. + o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]: + + o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. + o BIGNUM library fixes. + o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes. + o Object identifiers corrected and added. + o Add assembler BN routines for IA64. + o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8, + MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX. + o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare, + Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver + [in 0.9.6c-engine release]. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]: + + o Security fix: PRNG improvements. + o Security fix: RSA OAEP check. + o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's + attack. + o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM. + o Bug fix in "openssl enc". + o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine. + o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification. + o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe. + o Bug fix in RAND_file_name(). + o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings. + o Bug fix in blowfish EVP. + o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter. + o Compatibility fixes in some scripts. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]: + + o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using + environment variables when running as root. + o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the + possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly + calculated signature. + o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack. + o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the + master secret in DH ciphersuites. + o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems. + o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to + des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc. + o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix. + o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and + memory checking routines. + o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments. + o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications. + o Remove a few potential memory leaks. + o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines. + o Shared library support has been reworked for generality. + o More documentation. + o New function BN_rand_range(). + o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]: + + o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. + o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. + o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. + o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. + o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. + o MD4 now included. + o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check. + o Support for external crypto devices [1]. + o Enhanced EVP interface. + + [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate + distribution. See the file README.ENGINE. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]: + + o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 + o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc + o Support of Linux/IA64 + o Assembler support for Mingw32 + o New 'rand' application + o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]: + + o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command + o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application + o Automation of 'req' application + o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows + o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs + o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions + o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources + o New public key PEM format and options to handle it + o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities + o Usable certificate chain verification + o Certificate purpose checking + o Certificate trust settings + o Support of authority information access extension + o Extensions in certificate requests + o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines + o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets + o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD + o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function + o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0 + record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other + data + o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC + o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug + o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other + RSA functionality + o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information + via a per-thread stack + o PRNG robustness improved + o EGD support + o BIGNUM library bug fixes + o Faster DSA parameter generation + o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux + o Experimental MacOS support + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]: + + o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used + by several software packages and are more secure than the standard + form + o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation + o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data + o Avoid various memory leaks + o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O + must be handled by the application (BIO pair) + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]: + o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism + o RSA OEAP related fixes + o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate + o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs + o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files + o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points + extension support + o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support + o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString + o Full integration of PKCS#12 code + o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions + o Option to disable selected ciphers + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]: + o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption + o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case + o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers" + o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher + o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA + o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers + o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO) + o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys. + o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) + o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions + o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer + o Overhauled Win32 builds + o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library + o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime + o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs + o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences + o Overhauled Perl interface + o Lots of source tree cleanups. + o Lots of memory leak fixes. + o Lots of bug fixes. + + Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]: + o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches + o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer + o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality + o Extended Big Number (BN) library + o Added RIPE MD160 message digest + o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher + o Extended ASN.1 parser routines + o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS + o Support for various new platforms + |