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2 | NEWS | |
3 | ==== | |
4 | ||
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 | ||
eb125795 | 8 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 1.0: |
4e74239d | 9 | |
eb125795 | 10 | o Support for draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation-03.txt |
4e74239d DSH |
11 | o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests. |
12 | o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs. | |
13 | o Change default private key format to PKCS#8. | |
ef236ec3 | 14 | o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134 |
4e74239d DSH |
15 | o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS. |
16 | o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS. | |
17 | o ASN1 printing support. | |
18 | o Whirlpool hash algorithm added. | |
19 | o RFC3161 time stamp support. | |
20 | o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms. | |
21 | o New generalised public key API utilities. | |
22 | o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms. | |
23 | o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support. | |
24 | o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support. | |
25 | o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support. | |
26 | o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites. | |
27 | o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types. | |
28 | o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types. | |
29 | o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support. | |
14023fe3 | 30 | o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations. |
4e74239d | 31 | |
7f1c086b DSH |
32 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k: |
33 | ||
34 | o Fix various build issues. | |
35 | o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789) | |
36 | ||
37 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j: | |
38 | ||
39 | o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077) | |
40 | o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code. | |
41 | ||
42 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h: | |
43 | ||
44 | o CryptoAPI ENGINE support. | |
45 | o Various precautionary measures. | |
46 | o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation. | |
47 | o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files. | |
48 | ||
11d01d37 LJ |
49 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g: |
50 | ||
7f1c086b | 51 | o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8. |
11d01d37 LJ |
52 | o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f. |
53 | ||
1948c7e6 BL |
54 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f: |
55 | ||
56 | o Add gcc 4.2 support. | |
57 | o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization | |
58 | for VC++ build. | |
59 | o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly | |
60 | selected at compile time. | |
61 | o DTLS improvements. | |
62 | o RFC4507bis support. | |
63 | o TLS Extensions support. | |
64 | ||
ac63b837 DSH |
65 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e: |
66 | ||
67 | o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. | |
68 | o RFC3779 support. | |
69 | ||
61118caa BM |
70 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d: |
71 | ||
72 | o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) | |
73 | o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) | |
74 | o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm | |
75 | ||
613e7d2a BM |
76 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c: |
77 | ||
78 | o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 | |
79 | o New cipher Camellia | |
80 | ||
81 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b: | |
82 | ||
83 | o Cipher string fixes. | |
84 | o Fixes for VC++ 2005. | |
85 | o Updated ECC cipher suite support. | |
86 | o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free(). | |
87 | o Zlib compression usage fixes. | |
88 | o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32. | |
89 | o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32. | |
90 | ||
72dce768 BM |
91 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a: |
92 | ||
b79aa05e | 93 | o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969 |
72dce768 BM |
94 | o Extended Windows CE support |
95 | ||
7017605d RL |
96 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8: |
97 | ||
98 | o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to | |
99 | make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This | |
100 | is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library. | |
101 | o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST | |
102 | curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions. | |
103 | o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including | |
104 | the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE. | |
105 | o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL | |
106 | configuration file. | |
107 | o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding. | |
108 | o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files. | |
109 | o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking | |
110 | programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate | |
111 | Makefile.shared. | |
c8310124 | 112 | o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another. |
7017605d RL |
113 | o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules |
114 | automatically from specifically given directories. | |
115 | o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair. | |
116 | o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful. | |
117 | o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress" | |
118 | mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker | |
119 | function and an argument. | |
120 | o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation). | |
121 | o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3 | |
122 | Nehemiah processors. | |
123 | o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions. | |
124 | See RFC 1884, section 2.2. | |
125 | o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy | |
126 | constraints and name constraints. | |
127 | o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL | |
128 | configuration file. | |
129 | o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject | |
130 | in the 'openssl ca' index file. | |
131 | o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using | |
132 | 'openssl ca -selfsign'. | |
133 | o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with | |
134 | 'openssl ca -create_serial'. | |
135 | o New binary search functions with extended functionality. | |
136 | o New BUF functions. | |
137 | o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all | |
138 | sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and | |
139 | private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs. | |
140 | This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing | |
141 | OpenSSL. | |
142 | o New control functions for the error stack. | |
143 | o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME | |
144 | processing. | |
145 | o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated | |
146 | functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the | |
147 | 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts. | |
148 | o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other | |
149 | affected functions. | |
150 | o Improved platform support for PowerPC. | |
151 | o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512). | |
152 | o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation | |
153 | of X.509 path validation. | |
154 | o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and | |
155 | AMD64. | |
156 | o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled | |
157 | by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new | |
158 | argument form 'enable-xxx'. | |
159 | o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to | |
160 | SHA-1. | |
613e7d2a | 161 | o Added support for DTLS. |
7017605d RL |
162 | o New BIGNUM blinding. |
163 | o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme | |
164 | o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding. | |
c8310124 RL |
165 | o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare. |
166 | o Added support for files larger than 2GB. | |
167 | o Added initial support for Win64. | |
168 | o Added alternate pkg-config files. | |
7017605d | 169 | |
ac63b837 DSH |
170 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m: |
171 | ||
172 | o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking. | |
173 | o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. | |
174 | ||
61118caa BM |
175 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l: |
176 | ||
177 | o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) | |
178 | o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) | |
179 | ||
613e7d2a BM |
180 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k: |
181 | ||
182 | o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 | |
183 | ||
184 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j: | |
185 | ||
186 | o Visual C++ 2005 fixes. | |
187 | o Update Windows build system for FIPS. | |
188 | ||
189 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i: | |
190 | ||
191 | o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build. | |
192 | ||
193 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h: | |
194 | ||
195 | o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969 | |
196 | o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing | |
197 | o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations | |
198 | ||
36521f01 RL |
199 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g: |
200 | ||
201 | o More compilation issues fixed. | |
202 | o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API. | |
203 | o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin. | |
204 | o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module. | |
205 | o More constification. | |
206 | o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820). | |
207 | ||
208 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f: | |
209 | ||
210 | o Several compilation issues fixed. | |
211 | o Many memory allocation failure checks added. | |
212 | o Improved comparison of X509 Name type. | |
213 | o Mandatory basic checks on certificates. | |
214 | o Performance improvements. | |
215 | ||
03386677 DSH |
216 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e: |
217 | ||
218 | o Fix race condition in CRL checking code. | |
219 | o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code. | |
220 | ||
221 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d: | |
222 | ||
223 | o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug | |
224 | o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec() | |
225 | o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index | |
226 | o Multiple X509 verification fixes | |
227 | o Speed up HMAC and other operations | |
228 | ||
29902449 DSH |
229 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c: |
230 | ||
231 | o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. | |
232 | o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility. | |
233 | o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code. | |
234 | o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. | |
235 | ||
1774e22d RL |
236 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b: |
237 | ||
238 | o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of | |
239 | Bleichbacher's attack | |
240 | o Security: make RSA blinding default. | |
241 | o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support. | |
242 | o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc. | |
243 | o Build: shared library support fixes. | |
244 | o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly. | |
245 | o Documentation: fixes and additions. | |
246 | ||
d8cbc935 RL |
247 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a: |
248 | ||
249 | o Security: Important security related bugfixes. | |
250 | o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos. | |
251 | o Can be built without the ENGINE framework. | |
252 | o IA32 assembler enhancements. | |
253 | o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64. | |
254 | o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly. | |
255 | o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building. | |
256 | o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected. | |
257 | ||
3ba25ee8 | 258 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7: |
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259 | |
260 | o New library section OCSP. | |
e4fb4977 LJ |
261 | o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code. |
262 | o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility. | |
263 | o Extension copying in 'ca' utility. | |
264 | o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility. | |
265 | o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8. | |
4dec4f64 BM |
266 | o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer |
267 | a separate distribution. | |
e4fb4977 LJ |
268 | o New elliptic curve library section. |
269 | o New AES (Rijndael) library section. | |
1fc73fef | 270 | o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit, |
29902449 | 271 | Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9 |
9801fb61 RL |
272 | o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks |
273 | o Enhanced support for shared libraries. | |
29902449 | 274 | o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested. |
9801fb61 RL |
275 | o Support for pkg-config. |
276 | o Lots of new manuals. | |
29902449 DSH |
277 | o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described |
278 | functions. | |
e4fb4977 LJ |
279 | o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also |
280 | against libdes providing similar functions having the same name). | |
281 | Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the | |
282 | future). | |
ece0bdf1 BM |
283 | o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine) |
284 | to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers. | |
e4fb4977 LJ |
285 | o NCONF: new configuration handling routines. |
286 | o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking | |
287 | and help optimizers. | |
288 | o Finally remove references to RSAref. | |
289 | o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code. | |
290 | o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption | |
291 | Processing, IBM 4758. | |
9801fb61 | 292 | o A few new engines added in the demos area. |
e1f7ea25 | 293 | o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table. |
e4fb4977 LJ |
294 | o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for |
295 | EGD style random sources at several locations. | |
296 | o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference. | |
297 | o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids. | |
298 | o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712). | |
1fc73fef | 299 | Only supports MIT Kerberos for now. |
e4fb4977 LJ |
300 | o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions. |
301 | o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages. | |
ea4f109c | 302 | o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268). |
e4fb4977 | 303 | |
29902449 DSH |
304 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k: |
305 | ||
306 | o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. | |
307 | o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. | |
308 | ||
138f970e RL |
309 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j: |
310 | ||
311 | o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of | |
312 | Bleichbacher's attack | |
313 | o Security: make RSA blinding default. | |
314 | o Build: shared library support fixes. | |
315 | ||
d8cbc935 RL |
316 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i: |
317 | ||
318 | o Important security related bugfixes. | |
319 | ||
9801fb61 RL |
320 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h: |
321 | ||
322 | o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX. | |
323 | o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes. | |
324 | o Better handling of SSL session caching. | |
325 | o Better comparison of distinguished names. | |
326 | o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment. | |
327 | o Support assembler code with Borland C. | |
328 | o Fixes for length problems. | |
329 | o Fixes for uninitialised variables. | |
330 | o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions. | |
331 | o Fixes for smaller building problems. | |
332 | o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents. | |
333 | ||
36969082 RL |
334 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g: |
335 | ||
336 | o Important building fixes on Unix. | |
337 | ||
fbe792f0 RL |
338 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f: |
339 | ||
340 | o Various important bugfixes. | |
341 | ||
b218af2b LJ |
342 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e: |
343 | ||
344 | o Important security related bugfixes. | |
345 | o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. | |
346 | ||
151457ab | 347 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d: |
e4fb4977 LJ |
348 | |
349 | o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. | |
350 | o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators. | |
4dec4f64 | 351 | |
151457ab | 352 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c: |
ae52ec98 BM |
353 | |
354 | o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. | |
355 | o BIGNUM library fixes. | |
ef5f6a08 RL |
356 | o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes. |
357 | o Object identifiers corrected and added. | |
358 | o Add assembler BN routines for IA64. | |
359 | o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8, | |
360 | MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX. | |
a3790c0d | 361 | o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare, |
ef5f6a08 RL |
362 | Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver |
363 | [in 0.9.6c-engine release]. | |
ae52ec98 | 364 | |
151457ab | 365 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b: |
4dec4f64 BM |
366 | |
367 | o Security fix: PRNG improvements. | |
368 | o Security fix: RSA OAEP check. | |
369 | o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's | |
370 | attack. | |
371 | o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM. | |
372 | o Bug fix in "openssl enc". | |
373 | o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine. | |
374 | o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification. | |
375 | o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe. | |
376 | o Bug fix in RAND_file_name(). | |
377 | o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings. | |
378 | o Bug fix in blowfish EVP. | |
379 | o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter. | |
380 | o Compatibility fixes in some scripts. | |
83f25717 | 381 | |
7cdd2aa1 RL |
382 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a: |
383 | ||
384 | o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using | |
385 | environment variables when running as root. | |
386 | o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the | |
387 | possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly | |
388 | calculated signature. | |
389 | o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack. | |
390 | o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the | |
391 | master secret in DH ciphersuites. | |
4fea8145 | 392 | o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems. |
307bf4da RL |
393 | o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to |
394 | des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc. | |
7cdd2aa1 RL |
395 | o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix. |
396 | o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and | |
397 | memory checking routines. | |
5012158a | 398 | o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments. |
7cdd2aa1 RL |
399 | o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications. |
400 | o Remove a few potential memory leaks. | |
401 | o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines. | |
402 | o Shared library support has been reworked for generality. | |
403 | o More documentation. | |
4fea8145 | 404 | o New function BN_rand_range(). |
7cdd2aa1 RL |
405 | o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server. |
406 | ||
4e87e05b DSH |
407 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6: |
408 | ||
409 | o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. | |
410 | o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. | |
411 | o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. | |
412 | o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. | |
413 | o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. | |
b38d84d8 BM |
414 | o MD4 now included. |
415 | o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check. | |
4dec4f64 | 416 | o Support for external crypto devices [1]. |
fda05b21 | 417 | o Enhanced EVP interface. |
b22bda21 | 418 | |
4dec4f64 BM |
419 | [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate |
420 | distribution. See the file README.ENGINE. | |
421 | ||
35a79ecb RL |
422 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a: |
423 | ||
b7a81df4 | 424 | o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 |
35a79ecb RL |
425 | o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc |
426 | o Support of Linux/IA64 | |
b7a81df4 | 427 | o Assembler support for Mingw32 |
35a79ecb RL |
428 | o New 'rand' application |
429 | o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts | |
430 | ||
0c235249 UM |
431 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5: |
432 | ||
90644dd7 | 433 | o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command |
0c235249 | 434 | o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application |
90644dd7 DSH |
435 | o Automation of 'req' application |
436 | o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows | |
437 | o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs | |
438 | o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions | |
ae1bb4e5 | 439 | o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources |
90644dd7 DSH |
440 | o New public key PEM format and options to handle it |
441 | o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities | |
442 | o Usable certificate chain verification | |
443 | o Certificate purpose checking | |
444 | o Certificate trust settings | |
445 | o Support of authority information access extension | |
446 | o Extensions in certificate requests | |
447 | o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines | |
ae1bb4e5 | 448 | o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets |
90644dd7 DSH |
449 | o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD |
450 | o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function | |
8bd5b794 BM |
451 | o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0 |
452 | record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other | |
453 | data | |
90644dd7 | 454 | o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC |
8bd5b794 | 455 | o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug |
90644dd7 DSH |
456 | o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other |
457 | RSA functionality | |
07e6dbde BM |
458 | o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information |
459 | via a per-thread stack | |
460 | o PRNG robustness improved | |
4d524e10 | 461 | o EGD support |
6d9ca500 | 462 | o BIGNUM library bug fixes |
4d524e10 | 463 | o Faster DSA parameter generation |
74235cc9 UM |
464 | o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux |
465 | o Experimental MacOS support | |
0c235249 | 466 | |
ed7f60fb DSH |
467 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4: |
468 | ||
469 | o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used | |
c97cbcb3 BM |
470 | by several software packages and are more secure than the standard |
471 | form | |
472 | o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation | |
473 | o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data | |
474 | o Avoid various memory leaks | |
475 | o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O | |
476 | must be handled by the application (BIO pair) | |
ed7f60fb | 477 | |
8e8a8a5f | 478 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3: |
9de649ff UM |
479 | o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism |
480 | o RSA OEAP related fixes | |
8e8a8a5f RE |
481 | o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate |
482 | o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs | |
483 | o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files | |
703126f0 | 484 | o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points |
a03dd7a6 | 485 | extension support |
703126f0 DSH |
486 | o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support |
487 | o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString | |
488 | o Full integration of PKCS#12 code | |
2cf9fcda | 489 | o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions |
b0759f87 | 490 | o Option to disable selected ciphers |
8e8a8a5f | 491 | |
d343d272 | 492 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b: |
738769ff RE |
493 | o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption |
494 | o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case | |
495 | o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers" | |
3b52c2e7 RE |
496 | o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher |
497 | o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA | |
498 | o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers | |
499 | o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO) | |
500 | o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys. | |
03e20a1a | 501 | o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) |
3b52c2e7 RE |
502 | o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions |
503 | o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer | |
504 | o Overhauled Win32 builds | |
505 | o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library | |
506 | o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime | |
507 | o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs | |
508 | o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences | |
509 | o Overhauled Perl interface | |
510 | o Lots of source tree cleanups. | |
511 | o Lots of memory leak fixes. | |
512 | o Lots of bug fixes. | |
513 | ||
514 | Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c: | |
515 | o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches | |
516 | o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer | |
517 | o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality | |
518 | o Extended Big Number (BN) library | |
519 | o Added RIPE MD160 message digest | |
520 | o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher | |
521 | o Extended ASN.1 parser routines | |
522 | o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS | |
523 | o Support for various new platforms | |
524 |