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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 1.1.1d and OpenSSL 1.1.1e [under development]
9
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894da2fb 12 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.1c and OpenSSL 1.1.1d [10 Sep 2019]
b29cd8b5 13
7ff84d88 14 o Fixed a fork protection issue (CVE-2019-1549)
a95b0815 15 o Fixed a padding oracle in PKCS7_dataDecode and CMS_decrypt_set1_pkey
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16 (CVE-2019-1563)
17 o For built-in EC curves, ensure an EC_GROUP built from the curve name is
18 used even when parsing explicit parameters
19 o Compute ECC cofactors if not provided during EC_GROUP construction
20 (CVE-2019-1547)
21 o Early start up entropy quality from the DEVRANDOM seed source has been
22 improved for older Linux systems
23 o Correct the extended master secret constant on EBCDIC systems
24 o Use Windows installation paths in the mingw builds (CVE-2019-1552)
25 o Changed DH_check to accept parameters with order q and 2q subgroups
26 o Significantly reduce secure memory usage by the randomness pools
27 o Revert the DEVRANDOM_WAIT feature for Linux systems
b29cd8b5 28
97ace46e 29 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.1b and OpenSSL 1.1.1c [28 May 2019]
69fc126c 30
3e3f4e90 31 o Prevent over long nonces in ChaCha20-Poly1305 (CVE-2019-1543)
69fc126c 32
50eaac9f 33 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.1a and OpenSSL 1.1.1b [26 Feb 2019]
c97a75bf 34
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35 o Change the info callback signals for the start and end of a post-handshake
36 message exchange in TLSv1.3.
37 o Fix a bug in DTLS over SCTP. This breaks interoperability with older versions
38 of OpenSSL like OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.2.
c97a75bf 39
d1c28d79 40 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.1 and OpenSSL 1.1.1a [20 Nov 2018]
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42 o Timing vulnerability in DSA signature generation (CVE-2018-0734)
43 o Timing vulnerability in ECDSA signature generation (CVE-2018-0735)
fc4e1ab4 44
1708e3e8 45 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0i and OpenSSL 1.1.1 [11 Sep 2018]
156e34f2 46
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47 o Support for TLSv1.3 added (see https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/TLS1.3
48 for further important information). The TLSv1.3 implementation includes:
49 o Fully compliant implementation of RFC8446 (TLSv1.3) on by default
50 o Early data (0-RTT)
51 o Post-handshake authentication and key update
52 o Middlebox Compatibility Mode
53 o TLSv1.3 PSKs
54 o Support for all five RFC8446 ciphersuites
55 o RSA-PSS signature algorithms (backported to TLSv1.2)
56 o Configurable session ticket support
57 o Stateless server support
58 o Rewrite of the packet construction code for "safer" packet handling
59 o Rewrite of the extension handling code
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60 o Complete rewrite of the OpenSSL random number generator to introduce the
61 following capabilities
62 o The default RAND method now utilizes an AES-CTR DRBG according to
63 NIST standard SP 800-90Ar1.
64 o Support for multiple DRBG instances with seed chaining.
65 o There is a public and private DRBG instance.
66 o The DRBG instances are fork-safe.
67 o Keep all global DRBG instances on the secure heap if it is enabled.
68 o The public and private DRBG instance are per thread for lock free
69 operation
70 o Support for various new cryptographic algorithms including:
71 o SHA3
72 o SHA512/224 and SHA512/256
6ccfc8fa 73 o EdDSA (both Ed25519 and Ed448) including X509 and TLS support
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74 o X448 (adding to the existing X25519 support in 1.1.0)
75 o Multi-prime RSA
76 o SM2
77 o SM3
78 o SM4
79 o SipHash
80 o ARIA (including TLS support)
81 o Significant Side-Channel attack security improvements
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82 o Add a new ClientHello callback to provide the ability to adjust the SSL
83 object at an early stage.
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84 o Add 'Maximum Fragment Length' TLS extension negotiation and support
85 o A new STORE module, which implements a uniform and URI based reader of
86 stores that can contain keys, certificates, CRLs and numerous other
87 objects.
917a1b2e 88 o Move the display of configuration data to configdata.pm.
3c0c6b97 89 o Allow GNU style "make variables" to be used with Configure.
4b2799c1 90 o Claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL, represented as symbol prefixes
1c5b57bc 91 o Rewrite of devcrypto engine
156e34f2 92
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93 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0h and OpenSSL 1.1.0i [under development]
94
95 o Client DoS due to large DH parameter (CVE-2018-0732)
96 o Cache timing vulnerability in RSA Key Generation (CVE-2018-0737)
97
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98 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0g and OpenSSL 1.1.0h [under development]
99
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100 o Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the
101 stack (CVE-2018-0739)
102 o Incorrect CRYPTO_memcmp on HP-UX PA-RISC (CVE-2018-0733)
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103 o rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3738)
104
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105 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
106
107 o bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736)
108 o Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read (CVE-2017-3735)
109
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110 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0e and OpenSSL 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
111
112 o config now recognises 64-bit mingw and chooses mingw64 instead of mingw
113
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114 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0d and OpenSSL 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
115
116 o Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash (CVE-2017-3733)
117
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118 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0c and OpenSSL 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
119
120 o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731)
121 o Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash (CVE-2017-3730)
122 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732)
123
124 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0b and OpenSSL 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
3133c2d3 125
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126 o ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow (CVE-2016-7054)
127 o CMS Null dereference (CVE-2016-7053)
128 o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055)
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129
130 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
131
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132 o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309)
133
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134 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
135
136 o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304)
137 o SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305)
138 o Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header()
139 (CVE-2016-6307)
140 o Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
141 (CVE-2016-6308)
142
156e34f2 143 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
5fa30720 144
b6cff313 145 o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license
ce942199 146 o "shared" builds are now the default when possible
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147 o Added support for "pipelining"
148 o Added the AFALG engine
4a4e250c 149 o New threading API implemented
7c314196 150 o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl
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151 o Support for extended master secret
152 o CCM ciphersuites
6f9a3c37 153 o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More
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154 o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque,
155 including:
156 BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD,
157 DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD,
158 BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX,
159 EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX,
160 X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE,
161 X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD
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162 o libssl internal structures made opaque
163 o SSLv2 support removed
164 o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed
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165 o RC4 removed from DEFAULT ciphersuites in libssl
166 o 40 and 56 bit cipher support removed from libssl
6f9a3c37 167 o All public header files moved to include/openssl, no more symlinking
7c314196 168 o SSL/TLS state machine, version negotiation and record layer rewritten
5e030525 169 o EC revision: now operations use new EC_KEY_METHOD.
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170 o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto
171 o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl
98186eb4 172 o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either
46e64f6e 173 relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure
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174 argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option.
175 o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version
46e64f6e 176 to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed.
59fd40d4 177 o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication
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178 o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation
179 directory location rather than --openssldir. The latter becomes
180 the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively.
0f45c26f 181 o Reworked BIO networking library, with full support for IPv6.
907d2c2f 182 o New "unified" build system
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183 o New security levels
184 o Support for scrypt algorithm
185 o Support for X25519
186 o Extended SSL_CONF support using configuration files
187 o KDF algorithm support. Implement TLS PRF as a KDF.
eb64a6c6 188 o Support for Certificate Transparency
8a0333c9 189 o HKDF support.
5fa30720 190
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191 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
192
193 o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107)
194 o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105)
195 o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106)
196 o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109)
197 o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176)
198 o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
199 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
200 o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from
201 the default.
202 o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option.
203
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204 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
205
206 o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
207 o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers
208 (CVE-2016-0800)
209 o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)
210 o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak
211 (CVE-2016-0798)
212 o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
213 (CVE-2016-0797)
214 o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799)
215 o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702)
216
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217 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
218
219 o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)
220 o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197)
221
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222 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
223
224 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193)
225 o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194)
226 o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195)
227 o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs
228 o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
229 return an error
230
231 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
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232
233 o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793)
5fa30720 234 o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196)
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235
236 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
237
238 o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility
239
240 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
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241
242 o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788)
243 o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789)
244 o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790)
245 o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792)
246 o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791)
247
248 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
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250 o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291)
251 o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290)
252 o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207)
253 o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286)
254 o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208)
255 o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287)
256 o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289)
257 o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293)
258 o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787)
259 o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285)
260 o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209)
261 o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288)
262 o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
263
264 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]:
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266 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
267 o Support for DTLS 1.2
268 o TLS automatic EC curve selection.
269 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves
270 o SSL_CONF configuration API.
271 o TLS Brainpool support.
272 o ALPN support.
273 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH.
274
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275 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
276
277 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
278
279 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
280
281 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
282 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206
283 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
284 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
285 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
286 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205
287 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
288 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
289
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290 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
291
292 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
293 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
294 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
295 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
296
297 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
298
299 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512
300 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511
301 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
302 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
303 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
304 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
305 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509
306 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139
307 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
308
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309 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
310
311 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
312 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
367eab2f 313 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198
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314 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
315 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
316 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
317
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318 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
319
320 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160
321 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
322 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
323
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324 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
325
326 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values
327 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353
328 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449
329 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
330
57d7ee3a 331 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]:
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333 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169
334
57d7ee3a 335 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]:
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337 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version.
338 o Include the fips configuration module.
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339 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
340 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
341 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686
5818a07a 342
57d7ee3a 343 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]:
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344
345 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
346 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode.
347
57d7ee3a 348 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]:
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350 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms.
351 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode.
352 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0
353
57d7ee3a 354 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]:
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356 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
357 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos.
358 o Fix SEGV in AES code.
359
57d7ee3a 360 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]:
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362 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
363 o SCTP support.
364 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
365 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
366 o Next Protocol Negotiation.
367 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
368 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
369 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
370 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
371 o SRP support.
372
57d7ee3a 373 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]:
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375 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
376 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
377 o Various DTLS fixes.
378
57d7ee3a 379 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]:
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381 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
382
57d7ee3a 383 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]:
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385 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
386 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
387 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
388 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027
389 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
390
57d7ee3a 391 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]:
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393 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207
394 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210
395 o Protection against EC timing attacks.
396 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms.
397 o Various DTLS fixes.
398
57d7ee3a 399 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]:
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401 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
402
57d7ee3a 403 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]:
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405 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
406 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
407 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension.
408 o Fix various platform compilation issues.
409 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
410
57d7ee3a 411 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]:
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413 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
414 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939
415 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE.
416
57d7ee3a 417 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]:
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3cbb15ee 419 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633.
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420 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes.
421
57d7ee3a 422 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]:
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424 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests.
425 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs.
426 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8.
ef236ec3 427 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134
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428 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
429 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
430 o ASN1 printing support.
431 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added.
432 o RFC3161 time stamp support.
433 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms.
434 o New generalised public key API utilities.
435 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms.
436 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support.
437 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support.
438 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support.
439 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites.
440 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
441 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types.
442 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support.
14023fe3 443 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations.
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57d7ee3a 445 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
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447 o CFB cipher definition fixes.
448 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
449
57d7ee3a 450 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
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452 o Cipher definition fixes.
453 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
454 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
455 o SPKAC handling fixes.
456 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
457 o Compression memory leak fixed.
458 o Compression session resumption fixed.
459 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
87411f05 460 o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
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57d7ee3a 462 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
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464 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
465
57d7ee3a 466 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
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468 o Fix various build issues.
469 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
470
57d7ee3a 471 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
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473 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
474 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
475
57d7ee3a 476 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
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478 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
479 o Various precautionary measures.
480 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
481 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
482
57d7ee3a 483 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
11d01d37 484
7f1c086b 485 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
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487
57d7ee3a 488 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
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490 o Add gcc 4.2 support.
df7421cc 491 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization
1948c7e6 492 for VC++ build.
87411f05 493 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
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495 o DTLS improvements.
496 o RFC4507bis support.
497 o TLS Extensions support.
498
57d7ee3a 499 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
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501 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
502 o RFC3779 support.
503
57d7ee3a 504 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
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506 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
507 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
508 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
509
57d7ee3a 510 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
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512 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
513 o New cipher Camellia
514
57d7ee3a 515 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
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517 o Cipher string fixes.
518 o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
519 o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
520 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
521 o Zlib compression usage fixes.
522 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
523 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
524
57d7ee3a 525 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
72dce768 526
b79aa05e 527 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
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528 o Extended Windows CE support
529
57d7ee3a 530 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
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532 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
533 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
534 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
535 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
536 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
537 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
538 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
539 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
540 configuration file.
541 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
542 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
543 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
544 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
545 Makefile.shared.
c8310124 546 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
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548 automatically from specifically given directories.
549 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
550 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
551 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
552 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
553 function and an argument.
554 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
555 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
556 Nehemiah processors.
557 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
558 See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
559 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
560 constraints and name constraints.
561 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
562 configuration file.
563 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
564 in the 'openssl ca' index file.
565 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
566 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
567 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
568 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
569 o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
570 o New BUF functions.
571 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
572 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
573 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
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575 OpenSSL.
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577 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
578 processing.
579 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
580 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
581 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
582 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
583 affected functions.
584 o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
585 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
46f4e1be 586 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parameterisation
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588 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
589 AMD64.
590 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
f430ba31 591 by default. Those can be explicitly enabled with the new
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593 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
594 SHA-1.
613e7d2a 595 o Added support for DTLS.
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597 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
598 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
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600 o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
601 o Added initial support for Win64.
602 o Added alternate pkg-config files.
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57d7ee3a 604 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
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606 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
607 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
608
57d7ee3a 609 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
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611 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
612 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
613
57d7ee3a 614 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
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616 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
617
57d7ee3a 618 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
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620 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
621 o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
622
57d7ee3a 623 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
613e7d2a 624
25ccb589 625 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE its old value, except for a FIPS build.
613e7d2a 626
57d7ee3a 627 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
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629 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
630 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
631 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
632
57d7ee3a 633 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
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635 o More compilation issues fixed.
636 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
637 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
638 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
639 o More constification.
640 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
641
57d7ee3a 642 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
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644 o Several compilation issues fixed.
645 o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
646 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
647 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
648 o Performance improvements.
649
57d7ee3a 650 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
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652 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
653 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
654
57d7ee3a 655 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
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657 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
658 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
659 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
660 o Multiple X509 verification fixes
661 o Speed up HMAC and other operations
662
57d7ee3a 663 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
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665 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
666 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
667 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
668 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
669
57d7ee3a 670 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
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672 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
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675 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
676 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
677 o Build: shared library support fixes.
678 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
679 o Documentation: fixes and additions.
680
57d7ee3a 681 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
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683 o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
684 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
685 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
686 o IA32 assembler enhancements.
687 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
688 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
689 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
690 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
691
57d7ee3a 692 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
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694 o New library section OCSP.
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696 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
697 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
698 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
699 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
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701 a separate distribution.
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702 o New elliptic curve library section.
703 o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
1fc73fef 704 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
29902449 705 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
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707 o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
29902449 708 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
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710 o Lots of new manuals.
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712 functions.
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714 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
715 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
716 future).
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717 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
718 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
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719 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
720 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
721 and help optimizers.
722 o Finally remove references to RSAref.
723 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
724 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
725 Processing, IBM 4758.
9801fb61 726 o A few new engines added in the demos area.
e1f7ea25 727 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
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729 EGD style random sources at several locations.
730 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
731 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
732 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
87411f05 733 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
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735 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
ea4f109c 736 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
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57d7ee3a 738 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
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740 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
741 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
742
57d7ee3a 743 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
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745 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
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748 o Build: shared library support fixes.
749
57d7ee3a 750 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
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752 o Important security related bugfixes.
753
57d7ee3a 754 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
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756 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
757 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
758 o Better handling of SSL session caching.
759 o Better comparison of distinguished names.
760 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
761 o Support assembler code with Borland C.
762 o Fixes for length problems.
763 o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
764 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
765 o Fixes for smaller building problems.
766 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
767
57d7ee3a 768 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
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770 o Important building fixes on Unix.
771
57d7ee3a 772 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
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774 o Various important bugfixes.
775
57d7ee3a 776 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
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778 o Important security related bugfixes.
779 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
780
57d7ee3a 781 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
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783 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
784 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
4dec4f64 785
57d7ee3a 786 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
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788 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
789 o BIGNUM library fixes.
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790 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
791 o Object identifiers corrected and added.
792 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
793 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
794 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
a3790c0d 795 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
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796 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
797 [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
ae52ec98 798
57d7ee3a 799 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
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801 o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
802 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
803 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
804 attack.
805 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
806 o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
807 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
808 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
809 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
810 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
811 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
812 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
813 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
814 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
83f25717 815
57d7ee3a 816 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
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818 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
819 environment variables when running as root.
820 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
821 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
822 calculated signature.
823 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
824 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
825 master secret in DH ciphersuites.
4fea8145 826 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
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827 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
828 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
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830 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
831 memory checking routines.
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834 o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
835 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
836 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
837 o More documentation.
4fea8145 838 o New function BN_rand_range().
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840
57d7ee3a 841 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
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843 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
844 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
845 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
846 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
847 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
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849 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
4dec4f64 850 o Support for external crypto devices [1].
fda05b21 851 o Enhanced EVP interface.
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854 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
855
57d7ee3a 856 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
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87411f05 858 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
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859 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
860 o Support of Linux/IA64
b7a81df4 861 o Assembler support for Mingw32
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862 o New 'rand' application
863 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
864
57d7ee3a 865 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
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90644dd7 867 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
0c235249 868 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
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870 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
871 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
46f4e1be 872 o New SPKAC command line utility and associated library functions
ae1bb4e5 873 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
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875 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
876 o Usable certificate chain verification
877 o Certificate purpose checking
878 o Certificate trust settings
879 o Support of authority information access extension
880 o Extensions in certificate requests
881 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
ae1bb4e5 882 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
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883 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
884 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
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885 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
886 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
887 data
90644dd7 888 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
8bd5b794 889 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
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890 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
891 RSA functionality
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893 via a per-thread stack
894 o PRNG robustness improved
4d524e10 895 o EGD support
6d9ca500 896 o BIGNUM library bug fixes
4d524e10 897 o Faster DSA parameter generation
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899 o Experimental MacOS support
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57d7ee3a 901 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
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903 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
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905 form
906 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
907 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
908 o Avoid various memory leaks
909 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
910 must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
ed7f60fb 911
57d7ee3a 912 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
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914 o RSA OEAP related fixes
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916 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
917 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
703126f0 918 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
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921 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
922 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
2cf9fcda 923 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
b0759f87 924 o Option to disable selected ciphers
8e8a8a5f 925
57d7ee3a 926 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
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928 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
929 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
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931 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
932 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
933 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
934 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
03e20a1a 935 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
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937 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
938 o Overhauled Win32 builds
939 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
940 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
941 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
942 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
943 o Overhauled Perl interface
944 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
945 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
946 o Lots of bug fixes.
947
57d7ee3a 948 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
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950 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
951 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
952 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
953 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
46f4e1be 954 o Added support for RC2/64bit cipher
3b52c2e7 955 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
46f4e1be 956 o Adjustments of the source tree for CVS
3b52c2e7 957 o Support for various new platforms