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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 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [under development]
9
87cd6f92 10 o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309)
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ac2c44c6 12 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
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14 o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304)
15 o SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305)
16 o Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header()
17 (CVE-2016-6307)
18 o Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
19 (CVE-2016-6308)
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abd30777 21 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
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b6cff313 23 o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license
ce942199 24 o "shared" builds are now the default when possible
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25 o Added support for "pipelining"
26 o Added the AFALG engine
4a4e250c 27 o New threading API implemented
7c314196 28 o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl
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29 o Support for extended master secret
30 o CCM ciphersuites
6f9a3c37 31 o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More
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32 o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque,
33 including:
34 BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD,
35 DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD,
36 BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX,
37 EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX,
38 X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE,
39 X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD
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40 o libssl internal structures made opaque
41 o SSLv2 support removed
42 o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed
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43 o RC4 removed from DEFAULT ciphersuites in libssl
44 o 40 and 56 bit cipher support removed from libssl
6f9a3c37 45 o All public header files moved to include/openssl, no more symlinking
7c314196 46 o SSL/TLS state machine, version negotiation and record layer rewritten
5e030525 47 o EC revision: now operations use new EC_KEY_METHOD.
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48 o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto
49 o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl
98186eb4 50 o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either
46e64f6e 51 relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure
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52 argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option.
53 o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version
46e64f6e 54 to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed.
59fd40d4 55 o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication
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56 o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation
57 directory location rather than --openssldir. The latter becomes
58 the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively.
0f45c26f 59 o Reworked BIO networking library, with full support for IPv6.
907d2c2f 60 o New "unified" build system
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61 o New security levels
62 o Support for scrypt algorithm
63 o Support for X25519
64 o Extended SSL_CONF support using configuration files
65 o KDF algorithm support. Implement TLS PRF as a KDF.
eb64a6c6 66 o Support for Certificate Transparency
8a0333c9 67 o HKDF support.
5fa30720 68
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69 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
70
71 o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107)
72 o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105)
73 o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106)
74 o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109)
75 o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176)
76 o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
77 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
78 o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from
79 the default.
80 o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option.
81
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82 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
83
84 o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
85 o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers
86 (CVE-2016-0800)
87 o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)
88 o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak
89 (CVE-2016-0798)
90 o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
91 (CVE-2016-0797)
92 o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799)
93 o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702)
94
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95 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
96
97 o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)
98 o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197)
99
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100 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
101
102 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193)
103 o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194)
104 o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195)
105 o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs
106 o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
107 return an error
108
109 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
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111 o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793)
5fa30720 112 o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196)
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114 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
115
116 o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility
117
118 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
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120 o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788)
121 o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789)
122 o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790)
123 o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792)
124 o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791)
125
126 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
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128 o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291)
129 o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290)
130 o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207)
131 o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286)
132 o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208)
133 o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287)
134 o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289)
135 o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293)
136 o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787)
137 o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285)
138 o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209)
139 o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288)
140 o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
141
142 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]:
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144 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
145 o Support for DTLS 1.2
146 o TLS automatic EC curve selection.
147 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves
148 o SSL_CONF configuration API.
149 o TLS Brainpool support.
150 o ALPN support.
151 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH.
152
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153 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
154
155 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
156
157 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
158
159 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
160 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206
161 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
162 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
163 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
164 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205
165 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
166 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
167
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168 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
169
170 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
171 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
172 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
173 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
174
175 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
176
177 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512
178 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511
179 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
180 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
181 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
182 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
183 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509
184 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139
185 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
186
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187 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
188
189 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
190 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
367eab2f 191 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198
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192 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
193 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
194 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
195
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196 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
197
198 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160
199 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
200 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
201
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202 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
203
204 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values
205 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353
206 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449
207 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
208
57d7ee3a 209 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]:
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211 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169
212
57d7ee3a 213 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]:
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215 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version.
216 o Include the fips configuration module.
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217 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
218 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
219 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686
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57d7ee3a 221 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]:
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223 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
224 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode.
225
57d7ee3a 226 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]:
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228 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms.
229 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode.
230 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0
231
57d7ee3a 232 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]:
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234 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
235 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos.
236 o Fix SEGV in AES code.
237
57d7ee3a 238 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]:
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240 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
241 o SCTP support.
242 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
243 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
244 o Next Protocol Negotiation.
245 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
246 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
247 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
248 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
249 o SRP support.
250
57d7ee3a 251 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]:
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253 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
254 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
255 o Various DTLS fixes.
256
57d7ee3a 257 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]:
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259 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
260
57d7ee3a 261 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]:
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263 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
264 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
265 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
266 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027
267 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
268
57d7ee3a 269 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]:
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271 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207
272 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210
273 o Protection against EC timing attacks.
274 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms.
275 o Various DTLS fixes.
276
57d7ee3a 277 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]:
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279 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
280
57d7ee3a 281 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]:
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283 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
284 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
285 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension.
286 o Fix various platform compilation issues.
287 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
288
57d7ee3a 289 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]:
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291 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
292 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939
293 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE.
294
57d7ee3a 295 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]:
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3cbb15ee 297 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633.
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298 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes.
299
57d7ee3a 300 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]:
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302 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests.
303 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs.
304 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8.
ef236ec3 305 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134
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306 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
307 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
308 o ASN1 printing support.
309 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added.
310 o RFC3161 time stamp support.
311 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms.
312 o New generalised public key API utilities.
313 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms.
314 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support.
315 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support.
316 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support.
317 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites.
318 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
319 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types.
320 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support.
14023fe3 321 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations.
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57d7ee3a 323 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
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325 o CFB cipher definition fixes.
326 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
327
57d7ee3a 328 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
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330 o Cipher definition fixes.
331 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
332 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
333 o SPKAC handling fixes.
334 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
335 o Compression memory leak fixed.
336 o Compression session resumption fixed.
337 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
338 o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
339
57d7ee3a 340 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
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342 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
343
57d7ee3a 344 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
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346 o Fix various build issues.
347 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
348
57d7ee3a 349 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
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350
351 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
352 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
353
57d7ee3a 354 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
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356 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
357 o Various precautionary measures.
358 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
359 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
360
57d7ee3a 361 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
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7f1c086b 363 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
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364 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
365
57d7ee3a 366 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
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368 o Add gcc 4.2 support.
df7421cc 369 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization
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370 for VC++ build.
371 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
372 selected at compile time.
373 o DTLS improvements.
374 o RFC4507bis support.
375 o TLS Extensions support.
376
57d7ee3a 377 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
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379 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
380 o RFC3779 support.
381
57d7ee3a 382 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
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384 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
385 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
386 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
387
57d7ee3a 388 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
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390 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
391 o New cipher Camellia
392
57d7ee3a 393 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
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395 o Cipher string fixes.
396 o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
397 o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
398 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
399 o Zlib compression usage fixes.
400 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
401 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
402
57d7ee3a 403 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
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b79aa05e 405 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
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406 o Extended Windows CE support
407
57d7ee3a 408 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
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410 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
411 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
412 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
413 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
414 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
415 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
416 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
417 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
418 configuration file.
419 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
420 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
421 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
422 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
423 Makefile.shared.
c8310124 424 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
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425 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
426 automatically from specifically given directories.
427 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
428 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
429 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
430 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
431 function and an argument.
432 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
433 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
434 Nehemiah processors.
435 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
436 See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
437 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
438 constraints and name constraints.
439 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
440 configuration file.
441 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
442 in the 'openssl ca' index file.
443 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
444 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
445 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
446 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
447 o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
448 o New BUF functions.
449 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
450 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
451 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
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453 OpenSSL.
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454 o New control functions for the error stack.
455 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
456 processing.
457 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
458 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
459 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
460 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
461 affected functions.
462 o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
463 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
464 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation
465 of X.509 path validation.
466 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
467 AMD64.
468 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
f430ba31 469 by default. Those can be explicitly enabled with the new
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470 argument form 'enable-xxx'.
471 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
472 SHA-1.
613e7d2a 473 o Added support for DTLS.
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474 o New BIGNUM blinding.
475 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
476 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
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477 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
478 o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
479 o Added initial support for Win64.
480 o Added alternate pkg-config files.
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57d7ee3a 482 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
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484 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
485 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
486
57d7ee3a 487 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
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489 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
490 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
491
57d7ee3a 492 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
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494 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
495
57d7ee3a 496 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
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498 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
499 o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
500
57d7ee3a 501 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
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503 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
504
57d7ee3a 505 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
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507 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
508 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
509 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
510
57d7ee3a 511 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
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513 o More compilation issues fixed.
514 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
515 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
516 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
517 o More constification.
518 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
519
57d7ee3a 520 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
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522 o Several compilation issues fixed.
523 o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
524 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
525 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
526 o Performance improvements.
527
57d7ee3a 528 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
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530 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
531 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
532
57d7ee3a 533 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
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535 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
536 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
537 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
538 o Multiple X509 verification fixes
539 o Speed up HMAC and other operations
540
57d7ee3a 541 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
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543 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
544 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
545 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
546 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
547
57d7ee3a 548 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
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550 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
551 Bleichbacher's attack
552 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
553 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
554 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
555 o Build: shared library support fixes.
556 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
557 o Documentation: fixes and additions.
558
57d7ee3a 559 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
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561 o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
562 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
563 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
564 o IA32 assembler enhancements.
565 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
566 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
567 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
568 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
569
57d7ee3a 570 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
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572 o New library section OCSP.
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573 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
574 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
575 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
576 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
577 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
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579 a separate distribution.
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580 o New elliptic curve library section.
581 o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
1fc73fef 582 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
29902449 583 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
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585 o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
29902449 586 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
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587 o Support for pkg-config.
588 o Lots of new manuals.
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590 functions.
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591 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
592 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
593 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
594 future).
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595 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
596 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
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597 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
598 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
599 and help optimizers.
600 o Finally remove references to RSAref.
601 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
602 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
603 Processing, IBM 4758.
9801fb61 604 o A few new engines added in the demos area.
e1f7ea25 605 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
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606 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
607 EGD style random sources at several locations.
608 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
609 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
610 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
1fc73fef 611 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
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613 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
ea4f109c 614 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
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57d7ee3a 616 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
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618 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
619 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
620
57d7ee3a 621 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
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623 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
624 Bleichbacher's attack
625 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
626 o Build: shared library support fixes.
627
57d7ee3a 628 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
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630 o Important security related bugfixes.
631
57d7ee3a 632 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
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634 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
635 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
636 o Better handling of SSL session caching.
637 o Better comparison of distinguished names.
638 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
639 o Support assembler code with Borland C.
640 o Fixes for length problems.
641 o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
642 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
643 o Fixes for smaller building problems.
644 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
645
57d7ee3a 646 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
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648 o Important building fixes on Unix.
649
57d7ee3a 650 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
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652 o Various important bugfixes.
653
57d7ee3a 654 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
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656 o Important security related bugfixes.
657 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
658
57d7ee3a 659 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
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661 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
662 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
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57d7ee3a 664 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
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666 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
667 o BIGNUM library fixes.
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668 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
669 o Object identifiers corrected and added.
670 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
671 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
672 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
a3790c0d 673 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
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674 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
675 [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
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57d7ee3a 677 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
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679 o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
680 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
681 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
682 attack.
683 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
684 o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
685 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
686 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
687 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
688 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
689 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
690 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
691 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
692 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
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57d7ee3a 694 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
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696 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
697 environment variables when running as root.
698 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
699 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
700 calculated signature.
701 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
702 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
703 master secret in DH ciphersuites.
4fea8145 704 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
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705 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
706 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
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708 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
709 memory checking routines.
5012158a 710 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
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712 o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
713 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
714 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
715 o More documentation.
4fea8145 716 o New function BN_rand_range().
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718
57d7ee3a 719 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
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721 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
722 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
723 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
724 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
725 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
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726 o MD4 now included.
727 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
4dec4f64 728 o Support for external crypto devices [1].
fda05b21 729 o Enhanced EVP interface.
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732 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
733
57d7ee3a 734 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
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b7a81df4 736 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
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737 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
738 o Support of Linux/IA64
b7a81df4 739 o Assembler support for Mingw32
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740 o New 'rand' application
741 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
742
57d7ee3a 743 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
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90644dd7 745 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
0c235249 746 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
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747 o Automation of 'req' application
748 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
749 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
750 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions
ae1bb4e5 751 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
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752 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
753 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
754 o Usable certificate chain verification
755 o Certificate purpose checking
756 o Certificate trust settings
757 o Support of authority information access extension
758 o Extensions in certificate requests
759 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
ae1bb4e5 760 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
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761 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
762 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
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763 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
764 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
765 data
90644dd7 766 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
8bd5b794 767 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
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768 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
769 RSA functionality
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771 via a per-thread stack
772 o PRNG robustness improved
4d524e10 773 o EGD support
6d9ca500 774 o BIGNUM library bug fixes
4d524e10 775 o Faster DSA parameter generation
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777 o Experimental MacOS support
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57d7ee3a 779 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
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781 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
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783 form
784 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
785 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
786 o Avoid various memory leaks
787 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
788 must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
ed7f60fb 789
57d7ee3a 790 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
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792 o RSA OEAP related fixes
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794 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
795 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
703126f0 796 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
a03dd7a6 797 extension support
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799 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
800 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
2cf9fcda 801 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
b0759f87 802 o Option to disable selected ciphers
8e8a8a5f 803
57d7ee3a 804 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
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806 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
807 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
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809 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
810 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
811 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
812 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
03e20a1a 813 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
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815 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
816 o Overhauled Win32 builds
817 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
818 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
819 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
820 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
821 o Overhauled Perl interface
822 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
823 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
824 o Lots of bug fixes.
825
57d7ee3a 826 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
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828 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
829 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
830 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
831 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
832 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
833 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
834 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
835 o Support for various new platforms
836