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5 This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL
6 release. For more details please read the CHANGES file.
7
867a9170 8 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.1 [under development]
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11 o Add a STORE module (OSSL_STORE)
4b2799c1 12 o Claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL, represented as symbol prefixes
156e34f2 13
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14 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0g and OpenSSL 1.1.0h [under development]
15
16 o rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3738)
17
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18 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
19
20 o bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736)
21 o Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read (CVE-2017-3735)
22
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23 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0e and OpenSSL 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
24
25 o config now recognises 64-bit mingw and chooses mingw64 instead of mingw
26
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27 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0d and OpenSSL 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
28
29 o Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash (CVE-2017-3733)
30
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31 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0c and OpenSSL 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
32
33 o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731)
34 o Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash (CVE-2017-3730)
35 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732)
36
37 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0b and OpenSSL 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
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39 o ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow (CVE-2016-7054)
40 o CMS Null dereference (CVE-2016-7053)
41 o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055)
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42
43 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
44
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45 o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309)
46
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47 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
48
49 o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304)
50 o SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305)
51 o Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header()
52 (CVE-2016-6307)
53 o Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
54 (CVE-2016-6308)
55
156e34f2 56 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
5fa30720 57
b6cff313 58 o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license
ce942199 59 o "shared" builds are now the default when possible
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60 o Added support for "pipelining"
61 o Added the AFALG engine
4a4e250c 62 o New threading API implemented
7c314196 63 o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl
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64 o Support for extended master secret
65 o CCM ciphersuites
6f9a3c37 66 o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More
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67 o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque,
68 including:
69 BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD,
70 DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD,
71 BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX,
72 EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX,
73 X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE,
74 X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD
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75 o libssl internal structures made opaque
76 o SSLv2 support removed
77 o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed
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78 o RC4 removed from DEFAULT ciphersuites in libssl
79 o 40 and 56 bit cipher support removed from libssl
6f9a3c37 80 o All public header files moved to include/openssl, no more symlinking
7c314196 81 o SSL/TLS state machine, version negotiation and record layer rewritten
5e030525 82 o EC revision: now operations use new EC_KEY_METHOD.
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83 o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto
84 o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl
98186eb4 85 o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either
46e64f6e 86 relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure
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87 argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option.
88 o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version
46e64f6e 89 to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed.
59fd40d4 90 o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication
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91 o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation
92 directory location rather than --openssldir. The latter becomes
93 the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively.
0f45c26f 94 o Reworked BIO networking library, with full support for IPv6.
907d2c2f 95 o New "unified" build system
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96 o New security levels
97 o Support for scrypt algorithm
98 o Support for X25519
99 o Extended SSL_CONF support using configuration files
100 o KDF algorithm support. Implement TLS PRF as a KDF.
eb64a6c6 101 o Support for Certificate Transparency
8a0333c9 102 o HKDF support.
5fa30720 103
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104 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
105
106 o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107)
107 o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105)
108 o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106)
109 o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109)
110 o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176)
111 o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
112 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
113 o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from
114 the default.
115 o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option.
116
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117 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
118
119 o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
120 o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers
121 (CVE-2016-0800)
122 o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)
123 o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak
124 (CVE-2016-0798)
125 o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
126 (CVE-2016-0797)
127 o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799)
128 o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702)
129
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130 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
131
132 o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)
133 o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197)
134
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135 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
136
137 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193)
138 o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194)
139 o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195)
140 o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs
141 o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
142 return an error
143
144 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
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145
146 o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793)
5fa30720 147 o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196)
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148
149 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
150
151 o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility
152
153 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
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155 o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788)
156 o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789)
157 o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790)
158 o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792)
159 o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791)
160
161 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
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163 o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291)
164 o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290)
165 o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207)
166 o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286)
167 o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208)
168 o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287)
169 o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289)
170 o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293)
171 o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787)
172 o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285)
173 o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209)
174 o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288)
175 o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
176
177 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]:
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179 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
180 o Support for DTLS 1.2
181 o TLS automatic EC curve selection.
182 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves
183 o SSL_CONF configuration API.
184 o TLS Brainpool support.
185 o ALPN support.
186 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH.
187
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188 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
189
190 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
191
192 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
193
194 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
195 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206
196 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
197 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
198 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
199 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205
200 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
201 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
202
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203 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
204
205 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
206 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
207 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
208 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
209
210 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
211
212 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512
213 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511
214 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
215 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
216 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
217 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
218 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509
219 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139
220 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
221
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222 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
223
224 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
225 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
367eab2f 226 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198
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227 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
228 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
229 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
230
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231 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
232
233 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160
234 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
235 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
236
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237 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
238
239 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values
240 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353
241 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449
242 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
243
57d7ee3a 244 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]:
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246 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169
247
57d7ee3a 248 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]:
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249
250 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version.
251 o Include the fips configuration module.
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252 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
253 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
254 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686
5818a07a 255
57d7ee3a 256 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]:
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257
258 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
259 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode.
260
57d7ee3a 261 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]:
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262
263 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms.
264 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode.
265 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0
266
57d7ee3a 267 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]:
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268
269 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
270 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos.
271 o Fix SEGV in AES code.
272
57d7ee3a 273 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]:
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275 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
276 o SCTP support.
277 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
278 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
279 o Next Protocol Negotiation.
280 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
281 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
282 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
283 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
284 o SRP support.
285
57d7ee3a 286 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]:
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288 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
289 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
290 o Various DTLS fixes.
291
57d7ee3a 292 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]:
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294 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
295
57d7ee3a 296 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]:
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298 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
299 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
300 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
301 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027
302 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
303
57d7ee3a 304 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]:
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306 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207
307 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210
308 o Protection against EC timing attacks.
309 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms.
310 o Various DTLS fixes.
311
57d7ee3a 312 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]:
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314 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
315
57d7ee3a 316 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]:
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318 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
319 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
320 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension.
321 o Fix various platform compilation issues.
322 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
323
57d7ee3a 324 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]:
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326 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
327 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939
328 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE.
329
57d7ee3a 330 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]:
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3cbb15ee 332 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633.
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333 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes.
334
57d7ee3a 335 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]:
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337 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests.
338 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs.
339 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8.
ef236ec3 340 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134
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341 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
342 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
343 o ASN1 printing support.
344 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added.
345 o RFC3161 time stamp support.
346 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms.
347 o New generalised public key API utilities.
348 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms.
349 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support.
350 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support.
351 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support.
352 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites.
353 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
354 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types.
355 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support.
14023fe3 356 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations.
4e74239d 357
57d7ee3a 358 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
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360 o CFB cipher definition fixes.
361 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
362
57d7ee3a 363 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
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365 o Cipher definition fixes.
366 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
367 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
368 o SPKAC handling fixes.
369 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
370 o Compression memory leak fixed.
371 o Compression session resumption fixed.
372 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
373 o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
374
57d7ee3a 375 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
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377 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
378
57d7ee3a 379 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
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380
381 o Fix various build issues.
382 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
383
57d7ee3a 384 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
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385
386 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
387 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
388
57d7ee3a 389 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
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390
391 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
392 o Various precautionary measures.
393 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
394 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
395
57d7ee3a 396 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
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7f1c086b 398 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
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399 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
400
57d7ee3a 401 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
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403 o Add gcc 4.2 support.
df7421cc 404 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization
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405 for VC++ build.
406 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
407 selected at compile time.
408 o DTLS improvements.
409 o RFC4507bis support.
410 o TLS Extensions support.
411
57d7ee3a 412 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
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414 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
415 o RFC3779 support.
416
57d7ee3a 417 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
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419 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
420 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
421 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
422
57d7ee3a 423 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
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425 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
426 o New cipher Camellia
427
57d7ee3a 428 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
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430 o Cipher string fixes.
431 o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
432 o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
433 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
434 o Zlib compression usage fixes.
435 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
436 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
437
57d7ee3a 438 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
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b79aa05e 440 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
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441 o Extended Windows CE support
442
57d7ee3a 443 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
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445 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
446 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
447 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
448 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
449 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
450 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
451 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
452 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
453 configuration file.
454 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
455 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
456 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
457 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
458 Makefile.shared.
c8310124 459 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
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460 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
461 automatically from specifically given directories.
462 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
463 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
464 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
465 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
466 function and an argument.
467 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
468 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
469 Nehemiah processors.
470 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
471 See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
472 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
473 constraints and name constraints.
474 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
475 configuration file.
476 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
477 in the 'openssl ca' index file.
478 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
479 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
480 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
481 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
482 o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
483 o New BUF functions.
484 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
485 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
486 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
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487 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused within
488 OpenSSL.
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489 o New control functions for the error stack.
490 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
491 processing.
492 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
493 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
494 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
495 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
496 affected functions.
497 o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
498 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
46f4e1be 499 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parameterisation
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501 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
502 AMD64.
503 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
f430ba31 504 by default. Those can be explicitly enabled with the new
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506 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
507 SHA-1.
613e7d2a 508 o Added support for DTLS.
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510 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
511 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
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513 o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
514 o Added initial support for Win64.
515 o Added alternate pkg-config files.
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57d7ee3a 517 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
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519 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
520 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
521
57d7ee3a 522 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
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524 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
525 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
526
57d7ee3a 527 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
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529 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
530
57d7ee3a 531 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
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533 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
534 o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
535
57d7ee3a 536 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
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538 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
539
57d7ee3a 540 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
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542 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
543 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
544 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
545
57d7ee3a 546 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
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548 o More compilation issues fixed.
549 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
550 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
551 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
552 o More constification.
553 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
554
57d7ee3a 555 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
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557 o Several compilation issues fixed.
558 o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
559 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
560 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
561 o Performance improvements.
562
57d7ee3a 563 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
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565 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
566 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
567
57d7ee3a 568 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
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570 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
571 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
572 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
573 o Multiple X509 verification fixes
574 o Speed up HMAC and other operations
575
57d7ee3a 576 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
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578 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
579 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
580 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
581 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
582
57d7ee3a 583 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
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585 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
586 Bleichbacher's attack
587 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
588 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
589 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
590 o Build: shared library support fixes.
591 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
592 o Documentation: fixes and additions.
593
57d7ee3a 594 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
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596 o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
597 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
598 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
599 o IA32 assembler enhancements.
600 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
601 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
602 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
603 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
604
57d7ee3a 605 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
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607 o New library section OCSP.
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609 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
610 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
611 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
612 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
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614 a separate distribution.
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616 o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
1fc73fef 617 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
29902449 618 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
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620 o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
29902449 621 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
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623 o Lots of new manuals.
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625 functions.
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627 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
628 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
629 future).
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631 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
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632 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
633 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
634 and help optimizers.
635 o Finally remove references to RSAref.
636 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
637 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
638 Processing, IBM 4758.
9801fb61 639 o A few new engines added in the demos area.
e1f7ea25 640 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
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642 EGD style random sources at several locations.
643 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
644 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
645 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
1fc73fef 646 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
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648 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
ea4f109c 649 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
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57d7ee3a 651 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
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653 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
654 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
655
57d7ee3a 656 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
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658 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
659 Bleichbacher's attack
660 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
661 o Build: shared library support fixes.
662
57d7ee3a 663 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
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665 o Important security related bugfixes.
666
57d7ee3a 667 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
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669 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
670 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
671 o Better handling of SSL session caching.
672 o Better comparison of distinguished names.
673 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
674 o Support assembler code with Borland C.
675 o Fixes for length problems.
676 o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
677 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
678 o Fixes for smaller building problems.
679 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
680
57d7ee3a 681 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
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683 o Important building fixes on Unix.
684
57d7ee3a 685 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
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687 o Various important bugfixes.
688
57d7ee3a 689 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
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691 o Important security related bugfixes.
692 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
693
57d7ee3a 694 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
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696 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
697 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
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57d7ee3a 699 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
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701 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
702 o BIGNUM library fixes.
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704 o Object identifiers corrected and added.
705 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
706 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
707 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
a3790c0d 708 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
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710 [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
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57d7ee3a 712 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
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714 o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
715 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
716 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
717 attack.
718 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
719 o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
720 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
721 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
722 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
723 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
724 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
725 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
726 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
727 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
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57d7ee3a 729 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
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731 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
732 environment variables when running as root.
733 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
734 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
735 calculated signature.
736 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
737 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
738 master secret in DH ciphersuites.
4fea8145 739 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
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741 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
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743 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
744 memory checking routines.
5012158a 745 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
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747 o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
748 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
749 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
750 o More documentation.
4fea8145 751 o New function BN_rand_range().
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753
57d7ee3a 754 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
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756 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
757 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
758 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
759 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
760 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
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762 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
4dec4f64 763 o Support for external crypto devices [1].
fda05b21 764 o Enhanced EVP interface.
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767 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
768
57d7ee3a 769 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
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b7a81df4 771 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
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773 o Support of Linux/IA64
b7a81df4 774 o Assembler support for Mingw32
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776 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
777
57d7ee3a 778 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
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90644dd7 780 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
0c235249 781 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
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783 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
784 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
46f4e1be 785 o New SPKAC command line utility and associated library functions
ae1bb4e5 786 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
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788 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
789 o Usable certificate chain verification
790 o Certificate purpose checking
791 o Certificate trust settings
792 o Support of authority information access extension
793 o Extensions in certificate requests
794 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
ae1bb4e5 795 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
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797 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
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799 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
800 data
90644dd7 801 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
8bd5b794 802 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
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804 RSA functionality
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806 via a per-thread stack
807 o PRNG robustness improved
4d524e10 808 o EGD support
6d9ca500 809 o BIGNUM library bug fixes
4d524e10 810 o Faster DSA parameter generation
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812 o Experimental MacOS support
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57d7ee3a 814 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
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816 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
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818 form
819 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
820 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
821 o Avoid various memory leaks
822 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
823 must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
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57d7ee3a 825 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
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827 o RSA OEAP related fixes
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829 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
830 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
703126f0 831 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
a03dd7a6 832 extension support
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834 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
835 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
2cf9fcda 836 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
b0759f87 837 o Option to disable selected ciphers
8e8a8a5f 838
57d7ee3a 839 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
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841 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
842 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
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844 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
845 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
846 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
847 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
03e20a1a 848 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
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850 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
851 o Overhauled Win32 builds
852 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
853 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
854 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
855 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
856 o Overhauled Perl interface
857 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
858 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
859 o Lots of bug fixes.
860
57d7ee3a 861 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
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863 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
864 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
865 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
866 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
46f4e1be 867 o Added support for RC2/64bit cipher
3b52c2e7 868 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
46f4e1be 869 o Adjustments of the source tree for CVS
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871