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5 This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL
6 release. For more details please read the CHANGES file.
7
867a9170 8 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.1 [under development]
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11 o Add a STORE module (OSSL_STORE)
4b2799c1 12 o Claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL, represented as symbol prefixes
156e34f2 13
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14 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0e and OpenSSL 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
15
16 o config now recognises 64-bit mingw and chooses mingw64 instead of mingw
17
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18 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0d and OpenSSL 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
19
20 o Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash (CVE-2017-3733)
21
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22 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0c and OpenSSL 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
23
24 o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731)
25 o Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash (CVE-2017-3730)
26 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732)
27
28 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0b and OpenSSL 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
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30 o ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow (CVE-2016-7054)
31 o CMS Null dereference (CVE-2016-7053)
32 o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055)
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34 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
35
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36 o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309)
37
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38 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
39
40 o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304)
41 o SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305)
42 o Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header()
43 (CVE-2016-6307)
44 o Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
45 (CVE-2016-6308)
46
156e34f2 47 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
5fa30720 48
b6cff313 49 o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license
ce942199 50 o "shared" builds are now the default when possible
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51 o Added support for "pipelining"
52 o Added the AFALG engine
4a4e250c 53 o New threading API implemented
7c314196 54 o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl
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55 o Support for extended master secret
56 o CCM ciphersuites
6f9a3c37 57 o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More
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58 o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque,
59 including:
60 BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD,
61 DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD,
62 BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX,
63 EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX,
64 X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE,
65 X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD
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66 o libssl internal structures made opaque
67 o SSLv2 support removed
68 o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed
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69 o RC4 removed from DEFAULT ciphersuites in libssl
70 o 40 and 56 bit cipher support removed from libssl
6f9a3c37 71 o All public header files moved to include/openssl, no more symlinking
7c314196 72 o SSL/TLS state machine, version negotiation and record layer rewritten
5e030525 73 o EC revision: now operations use new EC_KEY_METHOD.
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74 o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto
75 o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl
98186eb4 76 o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either
46e64f6e 77 relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure
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78 argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option.
79 o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version
46e64f6e 80 to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed.
59fd40d4 81 o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication
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82 o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation
83 directory location rather than --openssldir. The latter becomes
84 the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively.
0f45c26f 85 o Reworked BIO networking library, with full support for IPv6.
907d2c2f 86 o New "unified" build system
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87 o New security levels
88 o Support for scrypt algorithm
89 o Support for X25519
90 o Extended SSL_CONF support using configuration files
91 o KDF algorithm support. Implement TLS PRF as a KDF.
eb64a6c6 92 o Support for Certificate Transparency
8a0333c9 93 o HKDF support.
5fa30720 94
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95 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
96
97 o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107)
98 o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105)
99 o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106)
100 o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109)
101 o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176)
102 o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
103 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
104 o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from
105 the default.
106 o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option.
107
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108 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
109
110 o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
111 o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers
112 (CVE-2016-0800)
113 o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)
114 o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak
115 (CVE-2016-0798)
116 o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
117 (CVE-2016-0797)
118 o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799)
119 o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702)
120
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121 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
122
123 o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)
124 o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197)
125
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126 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
127
128 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193)
129 o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194)
130 o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195)
131 o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs
132 o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
133 return an error
134
135 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
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136
137 o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793)
5fa30720 138 o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196)
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139
140 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
141
142 o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility
143
144 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
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146 o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788)
147 o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789)
148 o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790)
149 o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792)
150 o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791)
151
152 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
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154 o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291)
155 o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290)
156 o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207)
157 o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286)
158 o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208)
159 o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287)
160 o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289)
161 o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293)
162 o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787)
163 o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285)
164 o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209)
165 o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288)
166 o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
167
168 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]:
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170 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
171 o Support for DTLS 1.2
172 o TLS automatic EC curve selection.
173 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves
174 o SSL_CONF configuration API.
175 o TLS Brainpool support.
176 o ALPN support.
177 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH.
178
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179 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
180
181 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
182
183 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
184
185 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
186 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206
187 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
188 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
189 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
190 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205
191 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
192 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
193
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194 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
195
196 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
197 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
198 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
199 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
200
201 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
202
203 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512
204 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511
205 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
206 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
207 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
208 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
209 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509
210 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139
211 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
212
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213 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
214
215 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
216 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
367eab2f 217 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198
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218 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
219 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
220 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
221
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222 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
223
224 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160
225 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
226 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
227
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228 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
229
230 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values
231 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353
232 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449
233 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
234
57d7ee3a 235 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]:
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237 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169
238
57d7ee3a 239 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]:
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241 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version.
242 o Include the fips configuration module.
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243 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
244 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
245 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686
5818a07a 246
57d7ee3a 247 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]:
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248
249 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
250 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode.
251
57d7ee3a 252 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]:
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253
254 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms.
255 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode.
256 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0
257
57d7ee3a 258 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]:
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260 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
261 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos.
262 o Fix SEGV in AES code.
263
57d7ee3a 264 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]:
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266 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
267 o SCTP support.
268 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
269 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
270 o Next Protocol Negotiation.
271 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
272 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
273 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
274 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
275 o SRP support.
276
57d7ee3a 277 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]:
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279 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
280 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
281 o Various DTLS fixes.
282
57d7ee3a 283 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]:
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285 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
286
57d7ee3a 287 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]:
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289 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
290 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
291 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
292 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027
293 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
294
57d7ee3a 295 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]:
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297 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207
298 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210
299 o Protection against EC timing attacks.
300 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms.
301 o Various DTLS fixes.
302
57d7ee3a 303 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]:
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305 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
306
57d7ee3a 307 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]:
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309 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
310 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
311 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension.
312 o Fix various platform compilation issues.
313 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
314
57d7ee3a 315 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]:
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317 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
318 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939
319 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE.
320
57d7ee3a 321 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]:
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3cbb15ee 323 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633.
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324 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes.
325
57d7ee3a 326 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]:
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328 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests.
329 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs.
330 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8.
ef236ec3 331 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134
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332 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
333 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
334 o ASN1 printing support.
335 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added.
336 o RFC3161 time stamp support.
337 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms.
338 o New generalised public key API utilities.
339 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms.
340 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support.
341 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support.
342 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support.
343 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites.
344 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
345 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types.
346 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support.
14023fe3 347 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations.
4e74239d 348
57d7ee3a 349 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
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351 o CFB cipher definition fixes.
352 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
353
57d7ee3a 354 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
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356 o Cipher definition fixes.
357 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
358 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
359 o SPKAC handling fixes.
360 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
361 o Compression memory leak fixed.
362 o Compression session resumption fixed.
363 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
364 o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
365
57d7ee3a 366 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
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368 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
369
57d7ee3a 370 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
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371
372 o Fix various build issues.
373 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
374
57d7ee3a 375 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
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376
377 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
378 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
379
57d7ee3a 380 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
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381
382 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
383 o Various precautionary measures.
384 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
385 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
386
57d7ee3a 387 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
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7f1c086b 389 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
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390 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
391
57d7ee3a 392 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
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394 o Add gcc 4.2 support.
df7421cc 395 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization
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396 for VC++ build.
397 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
398 selected at compile time.
399 o DTLS improvements.
400 o RFC4507bis support.
401 o TLS Extensions support.
402
57d7ee3a 403 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
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405 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
406 o RFC3779 support.
407
57d7ee3a 408 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
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410 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
411 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
412 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
413
57d7ee3a 414 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
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416 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
417 o New cipher Camellia
418
57d7ee3a 419 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
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421 o Cipher string fixes.
422 o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
423 o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
424 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
425 o Zlib compression usage fixes.
426 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
427 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
428
57d7ee3a 429 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
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b79aa05e 431 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
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432 o Extended Windows CE support
433
57d7ee3a 434 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
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436 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
437 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
438 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
439 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
440 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
441 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
442 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
443 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
444 configuration file.
445 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
446 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
447 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
448 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
449 Makefile.shared.
c8310124 450 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
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451 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
452 automatically from specifically given directories.
453 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
454 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
455 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
456 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
457 function and an argument.
458 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
459 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
460 Nehemiah processors.
461 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
462 See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
463 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
464 constraints and name constraints.
465 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
466 configuration file.
467 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
468 in the 'openssl ca' index file.
469 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
470 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
471 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
472 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
473 o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
474 o New BUF functions.
475 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
476 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
477 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
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479 OpenSSL.
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480 o New control functions for the error stack.
481 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
482 processing.
483 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
484 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
485 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
486 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
487 affected functions.
488 o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
489 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
490 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation
491 of X.509 path validation.
492 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
493 AMD64.
494 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
f430ba31 495 by default. Those can be explicitly enabled with the new
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497 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
498 SHA-1.
613e7d2a 499 o Added support for DTLS.
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500 o New BIGNUM blinding.
501 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
502 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
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503 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
504 o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
505 o Added initial support for Win64.
506 o Added alternate pkg-config files.
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57d7ee3a 508 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
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510 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
511 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
512
57d7ee3a 513 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
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515 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
516 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
517
57d7ee3a 518 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
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520 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
521
57d7ee3a 522 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
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524 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
525 o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
526
57d7ee3a 527 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
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529 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
530
57d7ee3a 531 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
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533 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
534 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
535 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
536
57d7ee3a 537 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
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539 o More compilation issues fixed.
540 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
541 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
542 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
543 o More constification.
544 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
545
57d7ee3a 546 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
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548 o Several compilation issues fixed.
549 o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
550 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
551 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
552 o Performance improvements.
553
57d7ee3a 554 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
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556 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
557 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
558
57d7ee3a 559 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
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561 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
562 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
563 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
564 o Multiple X509 verification fixes
565 o Speed up HMAC and other operations
566
57d7ee3a 567 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
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569 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
570 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
571 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
572 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
573
57d7ee3a 574 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
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576 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
577 Bleichbacher's attack
578 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
579 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
580 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
581 o Build: shared library support fixes.
582 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
583 o Documentation: fixes and additions.
584
57d7ee3a 585 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
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587 o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
588 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
589 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
590 o IA32 assembler enhancements.
591 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
592 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
593 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
594 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
595
57d7ee3a 596 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
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598 o New library section OCSP.
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600 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
601 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
602 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
603 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
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605 a separate distribution.
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606 o New elliptic curve library section.
607 o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
1fc73fef 608 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
29902449 609 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
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610 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
611 o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
29902449 612 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
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613 o Support for pkg-config.
614 o Lots of new manuals.
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616 functions.
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617 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
618 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
619 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
620 future).
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621 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
622 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
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623 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
624 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
625 and help optimizers.
626 o Finally remove references to RSAref.
627 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
628 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
629 Processing, IBM 4758.
9801fb61 630 o A few new engines added in the demos area.
e1f7ea25 631 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
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632 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
633 EGD style random sources at several locations.
634 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
635 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
636 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
1fc73fef 637 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
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638 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
639 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
ea4f109c 640 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
e4fb4977 641
57d7ee3a 642 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
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644 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
645 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
646
57d7ee3a 647 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
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649 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
650 Bleichbacher's attack
651 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
652 o Build: shared library support fixes.
653
57d7ee3a 654 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
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656 o Important security related bugfixes.
657
57d7ee3a 658 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
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660 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
661 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
662 o Better handling of SSL session caching.
663 o Better comparison of distinguished names.
664 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
665 o Support assembler code with Borland C.
666 o Fixes for length problems.
667 o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
668 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
669 o Fixes for smaller building problems.
670 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
671
57d7ee3a 672 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
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674 o Important building fixes on Unix.
675
57d7ee3a 676 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
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678 o Various important bugfixes.
679
57d7ee3a 680 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
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682 o Important security related bugfixes.
683 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
684
57d7ee3a 685 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
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687 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
688 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
4dec4f64 689
57d7ee3a 690 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
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692 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
693 o BIGNUM library fixes.
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694 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
695 o Object identifiers corrected and added.
696 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
697 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
698 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
a3790c0d 699 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
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701 [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
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57d7ee3a 703 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
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705 o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
706 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
707 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
708 attack.
709 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
710 o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
711 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
712 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
713 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
714 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
715 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
716 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
717 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
718 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
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57d7ee3a 720 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
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722 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
723 environment variables when running as root.
724 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
725 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
726 calculated signature.
727 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
728 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
729 master secret in DH ciphersuites.
4fea8145 730 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
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731 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
732 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
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733 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
734 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
735 memory checking routines.
5012158a 736 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
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738 o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
739 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
740 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
741 o More documentation.
4fea8145 742 o New function BN_rand_range().
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744
57d7ee3a 745 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
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747 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
748 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
749 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
750 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
751 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
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752 o MD4 now included.
753 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
4dec4f64 754 o Support for external crypto devices [1].
fda05b21 755 o Enhanced EVP interface.
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758 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
759
57d7ee3a 760 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
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b7a81df4 762 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
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763 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
764 o Support of Linux/IA64
b7a81df4 765 o Assembler support for Mingw32
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766 o New 'rand' application
767 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
768
57d7ee3a 769 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
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90644dd7 771 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
0c235249 772 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
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773 o Automation of 'req' application
774 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
775 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
776 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions
ae1bb4e5 777 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
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778 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
779 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
780 o Usable certificate chain verification
781 o Certificate purpose checking
782 o Certificate trust settings
783 o Support of authority information access extension
784 o Extensions in certificate requests
785 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
ae1bb4e5 786 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
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787 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
788 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
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789 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
790 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
791 data
90644dd7 792 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
8bd5b794 793 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
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794 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
795 RSA functionality
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796 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
797 via a per-thread stack
798 o PRNG robustness improved
4d524e10 799 o EGD support
6d9ca500 800 o BIGNUM library bug fixes
4d524e10 801 o Faster DSA parameter generation
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803 o Experimental MacOS support
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57d7ee3a 805 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
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807 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
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809 form
810 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
811 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
812 o Avoid various memory leaks
813 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
814 must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
ed7f60fb 815
57d7ee3a 816 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
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818 o RSA OEAP related fixes
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820 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
821 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
703126f0 822 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
a03dd7a6 823 extension support
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825 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
826 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
2cf9fcda 827 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
b0759f87 828 o Option to disable selected ciphers
8e8a8a5f 829
57d7ee3a 830 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
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832 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
833 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
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835 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
836 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
837 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
838 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
03e20a1a 839 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
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840 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
841 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
842 o Overhauled Win32 builds
843 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
844 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
845 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
846 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
847 o Overhauled Perl interface
848 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
849 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
850 o Lots of bug fixes.
851
57d7ee3a 852 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
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854 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
855 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
856 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
857 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
858 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
859 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
860 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
861 o Support for various new platforms
862