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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
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8 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.1 [under development]
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10 o
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12 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
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b6cff313 14 o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license
ce942199 15 o "shared" builds are now the default when possible
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16 o Added support for "pipelining"
17 o Added the AFALG engine
4a4e250c 18 o New threading API implemented
7c314196 19 o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl
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20 o Support for extended master secret
21 o CCM ciphersuites
6f9a3c37 22 o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More
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23 o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque,
24 including:
25 BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD,
26 DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD,
27 BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX,
28 EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX,
29 X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE,
30 X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD
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31 o libssl internal structures made opaque
32 o SSLv2 support removed
33 o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed
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34 o RC4 removed from DEFAULT ciphersuites in libssl
35 o 40 and 56 bit cipher support removed from libssl
6f9a3c37 36 o All public header files moved to include/openssl, no more symlinking
7c314196 37 o SSL/TLS state machine, version negotiation and record layer rewritten
5e030525 38 o EC revision: now operations use new EC_KEY_METHOD.
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39 o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto
40 o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl
98186eb4 41 o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either
46e64f6e 42 relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure
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43 argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option.
44 o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version
46e64f6e 45 to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed.
59fd40d4 46 o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication
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47 o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation
48 directory location rather than --openssldir. The latter becomes
49 the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively.
0f45c26f 50 o Reworked BIO networking library, with full support for IPv6.
907d2c2f 51 o New "unified" build system
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52 o New security levels
53 o Support for scrypt algorithm
54 o Support for X25519
55 o Extended SSL_CONF support using configuration files
56 o KDF algorithm support. Implement TLS PRF as a KDF.
eb64a6c6 57 o Support for Certificate Transparency
8a0333c9 58 o HKDF support.
5fa30720 59
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60 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
61
62 o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107)
63 o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105)
64 o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106)
65 o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109)
66 o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176)
67 o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
68 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
69 o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from
70 the default.
71 o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option.
72
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73 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
74
75 o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
76 o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers
77 (CVE-2016-0800)
78 o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)
79 o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak
80 (CVE-2016-0798)
81 o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
82 (CVE-2016-0797)
83 o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799)
84 o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702)
85
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86 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
87
88 o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)
89 o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197)
90
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91 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
92
93 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193)
94 o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194)
95 o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195)
96 o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs
97 o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
98 return an error
99
100 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
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101
102 o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793)
5fa30720 103 o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196)
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104
105 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
106
107 o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility
108
109 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
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111 o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788)
112 o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789)
113 o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790)
114 o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792)
115 o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791)
116
117 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
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118
119 o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291)
120 o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290)
121 o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207)
122 o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286)
123 o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208)
124 o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287)
125 o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289)
126 o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293)
127 o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787)
128 o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285)
129 o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209)
130 o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288)
131 o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
132
133 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]:
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135 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
136 o Support for DTLS 1.2
137 o TLS automatic EC curve selection.
138 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves
139 o SSL_CONF configuration API.
140 o TLS Brainpool support.
141 o ALPN support.
142 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH.
143
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144 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
145
146 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
147
148 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
149
150 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
151 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206
152 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
153 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
154 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
155 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205
156 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
157 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
158
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159 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
160
161 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
162 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
163 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
164 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
165
166 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
167
168 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512
169 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511
170 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
171 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
172 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
173 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
174 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509
175 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139
176 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
177
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178 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
179
180 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
181 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
367eab2f 182 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198
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183 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
184 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
185 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
186
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187 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
188
189 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160
190 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
191 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
192
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193 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
194
195 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values
196 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353
197 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449
198 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
199
57d7ee3a 200 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]:
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202 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169
203
57d7ee3a 204 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]:
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206 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version.
207 o Include the fips configuration module.
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208 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
209 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
210 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686
5818a07a 211
57d7ee3a 212 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]:
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213
214 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
215 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode.
216
57d7ee3a 217 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]:
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219 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms.
220 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode.
221 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0
222
57d7ee3a 223 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]:
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224
225 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
226 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos.
227 o Fix SEGV in AES code.
228
57d7ee3a 229 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]:
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231 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
232 o SCTP support.
233 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
234 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
235 o Next Protocol Negotiation.
236 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
237 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
238 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
239 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
240 o SRP support.
241
57d7ee3a 242 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]:
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244 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
245 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
246 o Various DTLS fixes.
247
57d7ee3a 248 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]:
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250 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
251
57d7ee3a 252 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]:
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254 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
255 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
256 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
257 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027
258 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
259
57d7ee3a 260 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]:
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262 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207
263 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210
264 o Protection against EC timing attacks.
265 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms.
266 o Various DTLS fixes.
267
57d7ee3a 268 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]:
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270 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
271
57d7ee3a 272 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]:
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274 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
275 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
276 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension.
277 o Fix various platform compilation issues.
278 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
279
57d7ee3a 280 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]:
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281
282 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
283 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939
284 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE.
285
57d7ee3a 286 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]:
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3cbb15ee 288 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633.
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289 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes.
290
57d7ee3a 291 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]:
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293 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests.
294 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs.
295 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8.
ef236ec3 296 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134
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297 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
298 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
299 o ASN1 printing support.
300 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added.
301 o RFC3161 time stamp support.
302 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms.
303 o New generalised public key API utilities.
304 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms.
305 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support.
306 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support.
307 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support.
308 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites.
309 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
310 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types.
311 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support.
14023fe3 312 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations.
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57d7ee3a 314 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
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316 o CFB cipher definition fixes.
317 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
318
57d7ee3a 319 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
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321 o Cipher definition fixes.
322 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
323 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
324 o SPKAC handling fixes.
325 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
326 o Compression memory leak fixed.
327 o Compression session resumption fixed.
328 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
329 o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
330
57d7ee3a 331 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
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333 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
334
57d7ee3a 335 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
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337 o Fix various build issues.
338 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
339
57d7ee3a 340 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
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341
342 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
343 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
344
57d7ee3a 345 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
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347 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
348 o Various precautionary measures.
349 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
350 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
351
57d7ee3a 352 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
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7f1c086b 354 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
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355 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
356
57d7ee3a 357 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
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359 o Add gcc 4.2 support.
df7421cc 360 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization
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361 for VC++ build.
362 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
363 selected at compile time.
364 o DTLS improvements.
365 o RFC4507bis support.
366 o TLS Extensions support.
367
57d7ee3a 368 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
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370 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
371 o RFC3779 support.
372
57d7ee3a 373 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
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375 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
376 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
377 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
378
57d7ee3a 379 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
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381 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
382 o New cipher Camellia
383
57d7ee3a 384 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
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386 o Cipher string fixes.
387 o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
388 o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
389 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
390 o Zlib compression usage fixes.
391 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
392 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
393
57d7ee3a 394 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
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b79aa05e 396 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
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397 o Extended Windows CE support
398
57d7ee3a 399 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
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401 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
402 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
403 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
404 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
405 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
406 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
407 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
408 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
409 configuration file.
410 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
411 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
412 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
413 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
414 Makefile.shared.
c8310124 415 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
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416 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
417 automatically from specifically given directories.
418 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
419 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
420 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
421 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
422 function and an argument.
423 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
424 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
425 Nehemiah processors.
426 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
427 See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
428 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
429 constraints and name constraints.
430 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
431 configuration file.
432 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
433 in the 'openssl ca' index file.
434 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
435 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
436 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
437 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
438 o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
439 o New BUF functions.
440 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
441 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
442 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
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444 OpenSSL.
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445 o New control functions for the error stack.
446 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
447 processing.
448 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
449 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
450 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
451 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
452 affected functions.
453 o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
454 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
455 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation
456 of X.509 path validation.
457 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
458 AMD64.
459 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
f430ba31 460 by default. Those can be explicitly enabled with the new
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461 argument form 'enable-xxx'.
462 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
463 SHA-1.
613e7d2a 464 o Added support for DTLS.
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465 o New BIGNUM blinding.
466 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
467 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
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468 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
469 o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
470 o Added initial support for Win64.
471 o Added alternate pkg-config files.
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57d7ee3a 473 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
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475 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
476 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
477
57d7ee3a 478 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
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480 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
481 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
482
57d7ee3a 483 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
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485 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
486
57d7ee3a 487 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
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489 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
490 o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
491
57d7ee3a 492 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
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494 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
495
57d7ee3a 496 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
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498 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
499 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
500 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
501
57d7ee3a 502 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
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504 o More compilation issues fixed.
505 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
506 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
507 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
508 o More constification.
509 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
510
57d7ee3a 511 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
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513 o Several compilation issues fixed.
514 o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
515 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
516 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
517 o Performance improvements.
518
57d7ee3a 519 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
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521 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
522 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
523
57d7ee3a 524 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
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526 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
527 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
528 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
529 o Multiple X509 verification fixes
530 o Speed up HMAC and other operations
531
57d7ee3a 532 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
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534 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
535 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
536 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
537 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
538
57d7ee3a 539 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
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541 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
542 Bleichbacher's attack
543 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
544 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
545 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
546 o Build: shared library support fixes.
547 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
548 o Documentation: fixes and additions.
549
57d7ee3a 550 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
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552 o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
553 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
554 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
555 o IA32 assembler enhancements.
556 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
557 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
558 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
559 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
560
57d7ee3a 561 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
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563 o New library section OCSP.
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564 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
565 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
566 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
567 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
568 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
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570 a separate distribution.
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571 o New elliptic curve library section.
572 o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
1fc73fef 573 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
29902449 574 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
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575 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
576 o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
29902449 577 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
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578 o Support for pkg-config.
579 o Lots of new manuals.
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581 functions.
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582 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
583 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
584 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
585 future).
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586 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
587 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
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588 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
589 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
590 and help optimizers.
591 o Finally remove references to RSAref.
592 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
593 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
594 Processing, IBM 4758.
9801fb61 595 o A few new engines added in the demos area.
e1f7ea25 596 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
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597 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
598 EGD style random sources at several locations.
599 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
600 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
601 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
1fc73fef 602 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
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603 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
604 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
ea4f109c 605 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
e4fb4977 606
57d7ee3a 607 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
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609 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
610 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
611
57d7ee3a 612 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
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614 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
615 Bleichbacher's attack
616 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
617 o Build: shared library support fixes.
618
57d7ee3a 619 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
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621 o Important security related bugfixes.
622
57d7ee3a 623 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
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625 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
626 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
627 o Better handling of SSL session caching.
628 o Better comparison of distinguished names.
629 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
630 o Support assembler code with Borland C.
631 o Fixes for length problems.
632 o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
633 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
634 o Fixes for smaller building problems.
635 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
636
57d7ee3a 637 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
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639 o Important building fixes on Unix.
640
57d7ee3a 641 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
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643 o Various important bugfixes.
644
57d7ee3a 645 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
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647 o Important security related bugfixes.
648 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
649
57d7ee3a 650 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
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652 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
653 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
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57d7ee3a 655 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
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657 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
658 o BIGNUM library fixes.
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660 o Object identifiers corrected and added.
661 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
662 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
663 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
a3790c0d 664 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
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666 [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
ae52ec98 667
57d7ee3a 668 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
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670 o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
671 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
672 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
673 attack.
674 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
675 o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
676 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
677 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
678 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
679 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
680 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
681 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
682 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
683 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
83f25717 684
57d7ee3a 685 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
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687 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
688 environment variables when running as root.
689 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
690 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
691 calculated signature.
692 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
693 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
694 master secret in DH ciphersuites.
4fea8145 695 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
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696 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
697 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
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698 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
699 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
700 memory checking routines.
5012158a 701 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
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703 o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
704 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
705 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
706 o More documentation.
4fea8145 707 o New function BN_rand_range().
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709
57d7ee3a 710 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
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712 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
713 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
714 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
715 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
716 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
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718 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
4dec4f64 719 o Support for external crypto devices [1].
fda05b21 720 o Enhanced EVP interface.
b22bda21 721
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723 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
724
57d7ee3a 725 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
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b7a81df4 727 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
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729 o Support of Linux/IA64
b7a81df4 730 o Assembler support for Mingw32
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731 o New 'rand' application
732 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
733
57d7ee3a 734 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
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90644dd7 736 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
0c235249 737 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
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739 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
740 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
741 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions
ae1bb4e5 742 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
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744 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
745 o Usable certificate chain verification
746 o Certificate purpose checking
747 o Certificate trust settings
748 o Support of authority information access extension
749 o Extensions in certificate requests
750 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
ae1bb4e5 751 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
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753 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
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754 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
755 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
756 data
90644dd7 757 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
8bd5b794 758 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
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760 RSA functionality
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761 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
762 via a per-thread stack
763 o PRNG robustness improved
4d524e10 764 o EGD support
6d9ca500 765 o BIGNUM library bug fixes
4d524e10 766 o Faster DSA parameter generation
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768 o Experimental MacOS support
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57d7ee3a 770 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
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772 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
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774 form
775 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
776 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
777 o Avoid various memory leaks
778 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
779 must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
ed7f60fb 780
57d7ee3a 781 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
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783 o RSA OEAP related fixes
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785 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
786 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
703126f0 787 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
a03dd7a6 788 extension support
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790 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
791 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
2cf9fcda 792 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
b0759f87 793 o Option to disable selected ciphers
8e8a8a5f 794
57d7ee3a 795 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
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797 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
798 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
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799 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
800 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
801 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
802 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
803 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
03e20a1a 804 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
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806 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
807 o Overhauled Win32 builds
808 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
809 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
810 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
811 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
812 o Overhauled Perl interface
813 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
814 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
815 o Lots of bug fixes.
816
57d7ee3a 817 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
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819 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
820 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
821 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
822 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
823 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
824 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
825 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
826 o Support for various new platforms
827