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Correct NEWS entry about required security level for old versions of TLS, DTLS and SSL
authorPauli <pauli@openssl.org>
Wed, 4 May 2022 01:26:02 +0000 (11:26 +1000)
committerPauli <pauli@openssl.org>
Fri, 6 May 2022 00:44:13 +0000 (10:44 +1000)
The entry was incorrect because suites using RSA key exchange without SHA1
were permitted at security level 1.

Partial fix for #18194

Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/18234)

(cherry picked from commit 3226a37a4875567f2bf49aa44a727bcb67bb7dcd)

NEWS.md

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 630c57ae53d866b821e75c7b0667cfaacb04e09b..6f741ee61a0b16bf9d70d085e1a6e23e8510b65a 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -122,7 +122,8 @@ OpenSSL 3.0
     RC4, RC5 and SEED cipher functions have been deprecated.
   * All of the low-level DH, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA and RSA public key functions
     have been deprecated.
-  * SSL 3, TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and DTLS 1.0 only work at security level 0.
+  * SSL 3, TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and DTLS 1.0 only work at security level 0,
+    except when RSA key exchange without SHA1 is used.
   * Added providers, a new pluggability concept that will replace the
     ENGINE API and ENGINE implementations.