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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 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
15
16 o bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736)
17 o Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read (CVE-2017-3735)
18
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19 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0e and OpenSSL 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
20
21 o config now recognises 64-bit mingw and chooses mingw64 instead of mingw
22
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23 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0d and OpenSSL 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
24
25 o Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash (CVE-2017-3733)
26
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27 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0c and OpenSSL 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
28
29 o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731)
30 o Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash (CVE-2017-3730)
31 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732)
32
33 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0b and OpenSSL 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
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35 o ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow (CVE-2016-7054)
36 o CMS Null dereference (CVE-2016-7053)
37 o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055)
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38
39 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
40
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41 o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309)
42
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43 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
44
45 o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304)
46 o SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305)
47 o Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header()
48 (CVE-2016-6307)
49 o Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
50 (CVE-2016-6308)
51
156e34f2 52 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
5fa30720 53
b6cff313 54 o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license
ce942199 55 o "shared" builds are now the default when possible
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56 o Added support for "pipelining"
57 o Added the AFALG engine
4a4e250c 58 o New threading API implemented
7c314196 59 o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl
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60 o Support for extended master secret
61 o CCM ciphersuites
6f9a3c37 62 o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More
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63 o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque,
64 including:
65 BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD,
66 DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD,
67 BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX,
68 EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX,
69 X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE,
70 X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD
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71 o libssl internal structures made opaque
72 o SSLv2 support removed
73 o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed
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74 o RC4 removed from DEFAULT ciphersuites in libssl
75 o 40 and 56 bit cipher support removed from libssl
6f9a3c37 76 o All public header files moved to include/openssl, no more symlinking
7c314196 77 o SSL/TLS state machine, version negotiation and record layer rewritten
5e030525 78 o EC revision: now operations use new EC_KEY_METHOD.
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79 o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto
80 o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl
98186eb4 81 o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either
46e64f6e 82 relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure
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83 argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option.
84 o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version
46e64f6e 85 to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed.
59fd40d4 86 o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication
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87 o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation
88 directory location rather than --openssldir. The latter becomes
89 the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively.
0f45c26f 90 o Reworked BIO networking library, with full support for IPv6.
907d2c2f 91 o New "unified" build system
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92 o New security levels
93 o Support for scrypt algorithm
94 o Support for X25519
95 o Extended SSL_CONF support using configuration files
96 o KDF algorithm support. Implement TLS PRF as a KDF.
eb64a6c6 97 o Support for Certificate Transparency
8a0333c9 98 o HKDF support.
5fa30720 99
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100 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
101
102 o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107)
103 o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105)
104 o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106)
105 o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109)
106 o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176)
107 o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
108 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
109 o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from
110 the default.
111 o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option.
112
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113 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
114
115 o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
116 o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers
117 (CVE-2016-0800)
118 o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)
119 o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak
120 (CVE-2016-0798)
121 o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
122 (CVE-2016-0797)
123 o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799)
124 o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702)
125
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126 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
127
128 o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)
129 o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197)
130
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131 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
132
133 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193)
134 o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194)
135 o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195)
136 o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs
137 o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
138 return an error
139
140 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
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141
142 o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793)
5fa30720 143 o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196)
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144
145 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
146
147 o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility
148
149 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
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151 o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788)
152 o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789)
153 o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790)
154 o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792)
155 o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791)
156
157 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
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159 o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291)
160 o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290)
161 o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207)
162 o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286)
163 o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208)
164 o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287)
165 o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289)
166 o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293)
167 o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787)
168 o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285)
169 o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209)
170 o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288)
171 o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
172
173 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]:
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175 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
176 o Support for DTLS 1.2
177 o TLS automatic EC curve selection.
178 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves
179 o SSL_CONF configuration API.
180 o TLS Brainpool support.
181 o ALPN support.
182 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH.
183
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184 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
185
186 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
187
188 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
189
190 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
191 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206
192 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
193 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
194 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
195 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205
196 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
197 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
198
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199 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
200
201 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
202 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
203 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
204 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
205
206 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
207
208 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512
209 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511
210 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
211 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
212 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
213 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
214 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509
215 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139
216 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
217
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218 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
219
220 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
221 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
367eab2f 222 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198
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223 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
224 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
225 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
226
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227 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
228
229 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160
230 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
231 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
232
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233 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
234
235 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values
236 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353
237 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449
238 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
239
57d7ee3a 240 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]:
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242 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169
243
57d7ee3a 244 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]:
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246 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version.
247 o Include the fips configuration module.
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248 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
249 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
250 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686
5818a07a 251
57d7ee3a 252 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]:
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253
254 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
255 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode.
256
57d7ee3a 257 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]:
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258
259 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms.
260 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode.
261 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0
262
57d7ee3a 263 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]:
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264
265 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
266 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos.
267 o Fix SEGV in AES code.
268
57d7ee3a 269 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]:
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271 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
272 o SCTP support.
273 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
274 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
275 o Next Protocol Negotiation.
276 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
277 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
278 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
279 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
280 o SRP support.
281
57d7ee3a 282 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]:
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284 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
285 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
286 o Various DTLS fixes.
287
57d7ee3a 288 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]:
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290 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
291
57d7ee3a 292 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]:
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294 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
295 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
296 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
297 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027
298 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
299
57d7ee3a 300 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]:
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302 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207
303 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210
304 o Protection against EC timing attacks.
305 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms.
306 o Various DTLS fixes.
307
57d7ee3a 308 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]:
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310 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
311
57d7ee3a 312 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]:
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314 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
315 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
316 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension.
317 o Fix various platform compilation issues.
318 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
319
57d7ee3a 320 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]:
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321
322 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
323 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939
324 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE.
325
57d7ee3a 326 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]:
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3cbb15ee 328 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633.
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329 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes.
330
57d7ee3a 331 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]:
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332
333 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests.
334 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs.
335 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8.
ef236ec3 336 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134
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337 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
338 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
339 o ASN1 printing support.
340 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added.
341 o RFC3161 time stamp support.
342 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms.
343 o New generalised public key API utilities.
344 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms.
345 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support.
346 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support.
347 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support.
348 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites.
349 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
350 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types.
351 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support.
14023fe3 352 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations.
4e74239d 353
57d7ee3a 354 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
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356 o CFB cipher definition fixes.
357 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
358
57d7ee3a 359 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
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361 o Cipher definition fixes.
362 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
363 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
364 o SPKAC handling fixes.
365 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
366 o Compression memory leak fixed.
367 o Compression session resumption fixed.
368 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
369 o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
370
57d7ee3a 371 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
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373 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
374
57d7ee3a 375 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
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376
377 o Fix various build issues.
378 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
379
57d7ee3a 380 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
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381
382 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
383 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
384
57d7ee3a 385 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
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386
387 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
388 o Various precautionary measures.
389 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
390 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
391
57d7ee3a 392 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
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7f1c086b 394 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
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395 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
396
57d7ee3a 397 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
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399 o Add gcc 4.2 support.
df7421cc 400 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization
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401 for VC++ build.
402 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
403 selected at compile time.
404 o DTLS improvements.
405 o RFC4507bis support.
406 o TLS Extensions support.
407
57d7ee3a 408 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
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410 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
411 o RFC3779 support.
412
57d7ee3a 413 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
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415 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
416 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
417 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
418
57d7ee3a 419 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
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421 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
422 o New cipher Camellia
423
57d7ee3a 424 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
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426 o Cipher string fixes.
427 o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
428 o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
429 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
430 o Zlib compression usage fixes.
431 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
432 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
433
57d7ee3a 434 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
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b79aa05e 436 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
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437 o Extended Windows CE support
438
57d7ee3a 439 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
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441 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
442 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
443 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
444 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
445 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
446 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
447 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
448 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
449 configuration file.
450 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
451 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
452 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
453 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
454 Makefile.shared.
c8310124 455 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
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456 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
457 automatically from specifically given directories.
458 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
459 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
460 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
461 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
462 function and an argument.
463 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
464 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
465 Nehemiah processors.
466 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
467 See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
468 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
469 constraints and name constraints.
470 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
471 configuration file.
472 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
473 in the 'openssl ca' index file.
474 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
475 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
476 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
477 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
478 o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
479 o New BUF functions.
480 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
481 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
482 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
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484 OpenSSL.
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485 o New control functions for the error stack.
486 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
487 processing.
488 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
489 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
490 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
491 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
492 affected functions.
493 o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
494 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
46f4e1be 495 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parameterisation
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497 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
498 AMD64.
499 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
f430ba31 500 by default. Those can be explicitly enabled with the new
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502 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
503 SHA-1.
613e7d2a 504 o Added support for DTLS.
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505 o New BIGNUM blinding.
506 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
507 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
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509 o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
510 o Added initial support for Win64.
511 o Added alternate pkg-config files.
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57d7ee3a 513 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
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515 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
516 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
517
57d7ee3a 518 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
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520 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
521 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
522
57d7ee3a 523 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
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525 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
526
57d7ee3a 527 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
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529 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
530 o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
531
57d7ee3a 532 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
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534 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
535
57d7ee3a 536 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
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538 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
539 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
540 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
541
57d7ee3a 542 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
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544 o More compilation issues fixed.
545 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
546 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
547 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
548 o More constification.
549 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
550
57d7ee3a 551 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
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553 o Several compilation issues fixed.
554 o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
555 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
556 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
557 o Performance improvements.
558
57d7ee3a 559 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
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561 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
562 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
563
57d7ee3a 564 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
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566 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
567 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
568 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
569 o Multiple X509 verification fixes
570 o Speed up HMAC and other operations
571
57d7ee3a 572 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
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574 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
575 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
576 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
577 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
578
57d7ee3a 579 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
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581 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
582 Bleichbacher's attack
583 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
584 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
585 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
586 o Build: shared library support fixes.
587 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
588 o Documentation: fixes and additions.
589
57d7ee3a 590 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
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592 o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
593 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
594 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
595 o IA32 assembler enhancements.
596 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
597 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
598 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
599 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
600
57d7ee3a 601 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
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603 o New library section OCSP.
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605 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
606 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
607 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
608 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
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610 a separate distribution.
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612 o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
1fc73fef 613 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
29902449 614 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
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616 o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
29902449 617 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
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619 o Lots of new manuals.
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621 functions.
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623 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
624 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
625 future).
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626 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
627 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
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629 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
630 and help optimizers.
631 o Finally remove references to RSAref.
632 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
633 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
634 Processing, IBM 4758.
9801fb61 635 o A few new engines added in the demos area.
e1f7ea25 636 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
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638 EGD style random sources at several locations.
639 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
640 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
641 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
1fc73fef 642 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
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644 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
ea4f109c 645 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
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57d7ee3a 647 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
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649 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
650 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
651
57d7ee3a 652 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
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654 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
655 Bleichbacher's attack
656 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
657 o Build: shared library support fixes.
658
57d7ee3a 659 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
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661 o Important security related bugfixes.
662
57d7ee3a 663 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
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665 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
666 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
667 o Better handling of SSL session caching.
668 o Better comparison of distinguished names.
669 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
670 o Support assembler code with Borland C.
671 o Fixes for length problems.
672 o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
673 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
674 o Fixes for smaller building problems.
675 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
676
57d7ee3a 677 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
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679 o Important building fixes on Unix.
680
57d7ee3a 681 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
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683 o Various important bugfixes.
684
57d7ee3a 685 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
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687 o Important security related bugfixes.
688 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
689
57d7ee3a 690 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
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692 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
693 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
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57d7ee3a 695 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
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697 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
698 o BIGNUM library fixes.
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699 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
700 o Object identifiers corrected and added.
701 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
702 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
703 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
a3790c0d 704 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
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706 [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
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57d7ee3a 708 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
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710 o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
711 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
712 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
713 attack.
714 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
715 o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
716 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
717 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
718 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
719 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
720 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
721 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
722 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
723 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
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57d7ee3a 725 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
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727 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
728 environment variables when running as root.
729 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
730 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
731 calculated signature.
732 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
733 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
734 master secret in DH ciphersuites.
4fea8145 735 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
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736 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
737 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
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739 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
740 memory checking routines.
5012158a 741 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
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743 o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
744 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
745 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
746 o More documentation.
4fea8145 747 o New function BN_rand_range().
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749
57d7ee3a 750 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
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752 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
753 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
754 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
755 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
756 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
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758 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
4dec4f64 759 o Support for external crypto devices [1].
fda05b21 760 o Enhanced EVP interface.
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763 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
764
57d7ee3a 765 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
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b7a81df4 767 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
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769 o Support of Linux/IA64
b7a81df4 770 o Assembler support for Mingw32
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772 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
773
57d7ee3a 774 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
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90644dd7 776 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
0c235249 777 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
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778 o Automation of 'req' application
779 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
780 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
46f4e1be 781 o New SPKAC command line utility and associated library functions
ae1bb4e5 782 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
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784 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
785 o Usable certificate chain verification
786 o Certificate purpose checking
787 o Certificate trust settings
788 o Support of authority information access extension
789 o Extensions in certificate requests
790 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
ae1bb4e5 791 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
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792 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
793 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
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794 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
795 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
796 data
90644dd7 797 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
8bd5b794 798 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
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799 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
800 RSA functionality
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802 via a per-thread stack
803 o PRNG robustness improved
4d524e10 804 o EGD support
6d9ca500 805 o BIGNUM library bug fixes
4d524e10 806 o Faster DSA parameter generation
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808 o Experimental MacOS support
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57d7ee3a 810 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
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812 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
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814 form
815 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
816 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
817 o Avoid various memory leaks
818 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
819 must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
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57d7ee3a 821 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
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823 o RSA OEAP related fixes
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825 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
826 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
703126f0 827 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
a03dd7a6 828 extension support
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830 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
831 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
2cf9fcda 832 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
b0759f87 833 o Option to disable selected ciphers
8e8a8a5f 834
57d7ee3a 835 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
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837 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
838 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
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840 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
841 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
842 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
843 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
03e20a1a 844 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
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846 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
847 o Overhauled Win32 builds
848 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
849 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
850 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
851 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
852 o Overhauled Perl interface
853 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
854 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
855 o Lots of bug fixes.
856
57d7ee3a 857 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
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859 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
860 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
861 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
862 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
46f4e1be 863 o Added support for RC2/64bit cipher
3b52c2e7 864 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
46f4e1be 865 o Adjustments of the source tree for CVS
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867