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| 2 Apache HTTP Server 2.2 Limited OpenSSL Distribution |
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| 4 This binary distribution includes the minimal components of OpenSSL required |
| 5 to support mod_ssl for Apache HTTP Server version 2.2 (details are listed |
| 6 in OPENSSL-README.txt.) For the complete list of CHANGES to this and later |
| 7 versions of OpenSSL, please refer to the definative source, |
| 8 <http://www.openssl.org/news/changelog.html>, or see the CHANGES file in the |
| 9 full binary or source distribution package from <http://www.openssl.org/>. |
| 10 |
| 11 These OpenSSL binaries were built for distribution from the U.S. without |
| 12 support for the patented encryption methods IDEA, MDC-2 or RC5. |
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| 14 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 17 NEWS |
| 18 ==== |
| 19 |
| 20 This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL |
| 21 release. For more details please read the CHANGES file. |
| 22 |
| 23 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8x and OpenSSL 0.9.8y: |
| 24 |
| 25 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169 |
| 26 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166 |
| 27 |
| 28 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8w and OpenSSL 0.9.8x: |
| 29 |
| 30 o Fix DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333 |
| 31 |
| 32 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8v and OpenSSL 0.9.8w: |
| 33 |
| 34 o Fix for CVE-2012-2131 (corrected fix for 0.9.8 and CVE-2012-2110) |
| 35 |
| 36 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8u and OpenSSL 0.9.8v: |
| 37 |
| 38 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 |
| 39 |
| 40 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8t and OpenSSL 0.9.8u: |
| 41 |
| 42 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884 |
| 43 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619 |
| 44 o Various DTLS fixes. |
| 45 |
| 46 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8s and OpenSSL 0.9.8t: |
| 47 |
| 48 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050 |
| 49 |
| 50 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8r and OpenSSL 0.9.8s: |
| 51 |
| 52 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108 |
| 53 o Fix policy check double free error CVE-2011-4109 |
| 54 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576 |
| 55 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619 |
| 56 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577 |
| 57 |
| 58 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8q and OpenSSL 0.9.8r: |
| 59 |
| 60 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014 |
| 61 |
| 62 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 0.9.8q: |
| 63 |
| 64 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180 |
| 65 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252 |
| 66 |
| 67 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8o and OpenSSL 0.9.8p: |
| 68 |
| 69 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. |
| 70 |
| 71 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 0.9.8o: |
| 72 |
| 73 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-0742. |
| 74 o Various DTLS fixes. |
| 75 o Recognise SHA2 certificates if only SSL algorithms added. |
| 76 o Fix for no-rc4 compilation. |
| 77 o Chil ENGINE unload workaround. |
| 78 |
| 79 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n: |
| 80 |
| 81 o CFB cipher definition fixes. |
| 82 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433. |
| 83 |
| 84 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m: |
| 85 |
| 86 o Cipher definition fixes. |
| 87 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions. |
| 88 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables. |
| 89 o SPKAC handling fixes. |
| 90 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension. |
| 91 o Compression memory leak fixed. |
| 92 o Compression session resumption fixed. |
| 93 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes. |
| 94 o Many fixes to DTLS handling. |
| 95 |
| 96 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l: |
| 97 |
| 98 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation. |
| 99 |
| 100 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k: |
| 101 |
| 102 o Fix various build issues. |
| 103 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789) |
| 104 |
| 105 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j: |
| 106 |
| 107 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077) |
| 108 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code. |
| 109 |
| 110 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h: |
| 111 |
| 112 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support. |
| 113 o Various precautionary measures. |
| 114 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation. |
| 115 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files. |
| 116 |
| 117 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g: |
| 118 |
| 119 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8. |
| 120 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f. |
| 121 |
| 122 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f: |
| 123 |
| 124 o Add gcc 4.2 support. |
| 125 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization |
| 126 for VC++ build. |
| 127 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly |
| 128 selected at compile time. |
| 129 o DTLS improvements. |
| 130 o RFC4507bis support. |
| 131 o TLS Extensions support. |
| 132 |
| 133 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e: |
| 134 |
| 135 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. |
| 136 o RFC3779 support. |
| 137 |
| 138 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d: |
| 139 |
| 140 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) |
| 141 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) |
| 142 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm |
| 143 |
| 144 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c: |
| 145 |
| 146 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 |
| 147 o New cipher Camellia |
| 148 |
| 149 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b: |
| 150 |
| 151 o Cipher string fixes. |
| 152 o Fixes for VC++ 2005. |
| 153 o Updated ECC cipher suite support. |
| 154 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free(). |
| 155 o Zlib compression usage fixes. |
| 156 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32. |
| 157 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32. |
| 158 |
| 159 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a: |
| 160 |
| 161 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969 |
| 162 o Extended Windows CE support |
| 163 |
| 164 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8: |
| 165 |
| 166 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to |
| 167 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This |
| 168 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library. |
| 169 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST |
| 170 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions. |
| 171 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including |
| 172 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE. |
| 173 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL |
| 174 configuration file. |
| 175 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding. |
| 176 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files. |
| 177 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking |
| 178 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate |
| 179 Makefile.shared. |
| 180 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another. |
| 181 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules |
| 182 automatically from specifically given directories. |
| 183 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair. |
| 184 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful. |
| 185 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress" |
| 186 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker |
| 187 function and an argument. |
| 188 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation). |
| 189 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3 |
| 190 Nehemiah processors. |
| 191 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions. |
| 192 See RFC 1884, section 2.2. |
| 193 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy |
| 194 constraints and name constraints. |
| 195 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL |
| 196 configuration file. |
| 197 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject |
| 198 in the 'openssl ca' index file. |
| 199 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using |
| 200 'openssl ca -selfsign'. |
| 201 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with |
| 202 'openssl ca -create_serial'. |
| 203 o New binary search functions with extended functionality. |
| 204 o New BUF functions. |
| 205 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all |
| 206 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and |
| 207 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs. |
| 208 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing |
| 209 OpenSSL. |
| 210 o New control functions for the error stack. |
| 211 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME |
| 212 processing. |
| 213 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated |
| 214 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the |
| 215 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts. |
| 216 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other |
| 217 affected functions. |
| 218 o Improved platform support for PowerPC. |
| 219 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512). |
| 220 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation |
| 221 of X.509 path validation. |
| 222 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and |
| 223 AMD64. |
| 224 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled |
| 225 by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new |
| 226 argument form 'enable-xxx'. |
| 227 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to |
| 228 SHA-1. |
| 229 o Added support for DTLS. |
| 230 o New BIGNUM blinding. |
| 231 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme |
| 232 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding. |
| 233 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare. |
| 234 o Added support for files larger than 2GB. |
| 235 o Added initial support for Win64. |
| 236 o Added alternate pkg-config files. |
| 237 |
| 238 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m: |
| 239 |
| 240 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking. |
| 241 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. |
| 242 |
| 243 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l: |
| 244 |
| 245 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) |
| 246 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) |
| 247 |
| 248 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k: |
| 249 |
| 250 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 |
| 251 |
| 252 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j: |
| 253 |
| 254 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes. |
| 255 o Update Windows build system for FIPS. |
| 256 |
| 257 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i: |
| 258 |
| 259 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build. |
| 260 |
| 261 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h: |
| 262 |
| 263 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969 |
| 264 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing |
| 265 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations |
| 266 |
| 267 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g: |
| 268 |
| 269 o More compilation issues fixed. |
| 270 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API. |
| 271 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin. |
| 272 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module. |
| 273 o More constification. |
| 274 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820). |
| 275 |
| 276 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f: |
| 277 |
| 278 o Several compilation issues fixed. |
| 279 o Many memory allocation failure checks added. |
| 280 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type. |
| 281 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates. |
| 282 o Performance improvements. |
| 283 |
| 284 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e: |
| 285 |
| 286 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code. |
| 287 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code. |
| 288 |
| 289 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d: |
| 290 |
| 291 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug |
| 292 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec() |
| 293 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index |
| 294 o Multiple X509 verification fixes |
| 295 o Speed up HMAC and other operations |
| 296 |
| 297 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c: |
| 298 |
| 299 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. |
| 300 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility. |
| 301 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code. |
| 302 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. |
| 303 |
| 304 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b: |
| 305 |
| 306 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of |
| 307 Bleichbacher's attack |
| 308 o Security: make RSA blinding default. |
| 309 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support. |
| 310 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc. |
| 311 o Build: shared library support fixes. |
| 312 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly. |
| 313 o Documentation: fixes and additions. |
| 314 |
| 315 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a: |
| 316 |
| 317 o Security: Important security related bugfixes. |
| 318 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos. |
| 319 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework. |
| 320 o IA32 assembler enhancements. |
| 321 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64. |
| 322 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly. |
| 323 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building. |
| 324 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected. |
| 325 |
| 326 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7: |
| 327 |
| 328 o New library section OCSP. |
| 329 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code. |
| 330 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility. |
| 331 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility. |
| 332 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility. |
| 333 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8. |
| 334 o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer |
| 335 a separate distribution. |
| 336 o New elliptic curve library section. |
| 337 o New AES (Rijndael) library section. |
| 338 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit, |
| 339 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9 |
| 340 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks |
| 341 o Enhanced support for shared libraries. |
| 342 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested. |
| 343 o Support for pkg-config. |
| 344 o Lots of new manuals. |
| 345 o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described |
| 346 functions. |
| 347 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also |
| 348 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name). |
| 349 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the |
| 350 future). |
| 351 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine) |
| 352 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers. |
| 353 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines. |
| 354 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking |
| 355 and help optimizers. |
| 356 o Finally remove references to RSAref. |
| 357 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code. |
| 358 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption |
| 359 Processing, IBM 4758. |
| 360 o A few new engines added in the demos area. |
| 361 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table. |
| 362 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for |
| 363 EGD style random sources at several locations. |
| 364 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference. |
| 365 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids. |
| 366 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712). |
| 367 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now. |
| 368 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions. |
| 369 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages. |
| 370 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268). |
| 371 |
| 372 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k: |
| 373 |
| 374 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. |
| 375 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. |
| 376 |
| 377 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j: |
| 378 |
| 379 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of |
| 380 Bleichbacher's attack |
| 381 o Security: make RSA blinding default. |
| 382 o Build: shared library support fixes. |
| 383 |
| 384 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i: |
| 385 |
| 386 o Important security related bugfixes. |
| 387 |
| 388 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h: |
| 389 |
| 390 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX. |
| 391 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes. |
| 392 o Better handling of SSL session caching. |
| 393 o Better comparison of distinguished names. |
| 394 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment. |
| 395 o Support assembler code with Borland C. |
| 396 o Fixes for length problems. |
| 397 o Fixes for uninitialised variables. |
| 398 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions. |
| 399 o Fixes for smaller building problems. |
| 400 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents. |
| 401 |
| 402 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g: |
| 403 |
| 404 o Important building fixes on Unix. |
| 405 |
| 406 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f: |
| 407 |
| 408 o Various important bugfixes. |
| 409 |
| 410 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e: |
| 411 |
| 412 o Important security related bugfixes. |
| 413 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. |
| 414 |
| 415 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d: |
| 416 |
| 417 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. |
| 418 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators. |
| 419 |
| 420 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c: |
| 421 |
| 422 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. |
| 423 o BIGNUM library fixes. |
| 424 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes. |
| 425 o Object identifiers corrected and added. |
| 426 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64. |
| 427 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8, |
| 428 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX. |
| 429 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare, |
| 430 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver |
| 431 [in 0.9.6c-engine release]. |
| 432 |
| 433 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b: |
| 434 |
| 435 o Security fix: PRNG improvements. |
| 436 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check. |
| 437 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's |
| 438 attack. |
| 439 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM. |
| 440 o Bug fix in "openssl enc". |
| 441 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine. |
| 442 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification. |
| 443 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe. |
| 444 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name(). |
| 445 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings. |
| 446 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP. |
| 447 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter. |
| 448 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts. |
| 449 |
| 450 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a: |
| 451 |
| 452 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using |
| 453 environment variables when running as root. |
| 454 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the |
| 455 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly |
| 456 calculated signature. |
| 457 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack. |
| 458 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the |
| 459 master secret in DH ciphersuites. |
| 460 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems. |
| 461 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to |
| 462 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc. |
| 463 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix. |
| 464 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and |
| 465 memory checking routines. |
| 466 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments. |
| 467 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications. |
| 468 o Remove a few potential memory leaks. |
| 469 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines. |
| 470 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality. |
| 471 o More documentation. |
| 472 o New function BN_rand_range(). |
| 473 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server. |
| 474 |
| 475 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6: |
| 476 |
| 477 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. |
| 478 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. |
| 479 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. |
| 480 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. |
| 481 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. |
| 482 o MD4 now included. |
| 483 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check. |
| 484 o Support for external crypto devices [1]. |
| 485 o Enhanced EVP interface. |
| 486 |
| 487 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate |
| 488 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE. |
| 489 |
| 490 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a: |
| 491 |
| 492 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 |
| 493 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc |
| 494 o Support of Linux/IA64 |
| 495 o Assembler support for Mingw32 |
| 496 o New 'rand' application |
| 497 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts |
| 498 |
| 499 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5: |
| 500 |
| 501 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command |
| 502 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application |
| 503 o Automation of 'req' application |
| 504 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows |
| 505 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs |
| 506 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions |
| 507 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources |
| 508 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it |
| 509 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities |
| 510 o Usable certificate chain verification |
| 511 o Certificate purpose checking |
| 512 o Certificate trust settings |
| 513 o Support of authority information access extension |
| 514 o Extensions in certificate requests |
| 515 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines |
| 516 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets |
| 517 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD |
| 518 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function |
| 519 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0 |
| 520 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other |
| 521 data |
| 522 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC |
| 523 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug |
| 524 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other |
| 525 RSA functionality |
| 526 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information |
| 527 via a per-thread stack |
| 528 o PRNG robustness improved |
| 529 o EGD support |
| 530 o BIGNUM library bug fixes |
| 531 o Faster DSA parameter generation |
| 532 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux |
| 533 o Experimental MacOS support |
| 534 |
| 535 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4: |
| 536 |
| 537 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used |
| 538 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard |
| 539 form |
| 540 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation |
| 541 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data |
| 542 o Avoid various memory leaks |
| 543 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O |
| 544 must be handled by the application (BIO pair) |
| 545 |
| 546 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3: |
| 547 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism |
| 548 o RSA OEAP related fixes |
| 549 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate |
| 550 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs |
| 551 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files |
| 552 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points |
| 553 extension support |
| 554 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support |
| 555 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString |
| 556 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code |
| 557 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions |
| 558 o Option to disable selected ciphers |
| 559 |
| 560 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b: |
| 561 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption |
| 562 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case |
| 563 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers" |
| 564 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher |
| 565 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA |
| 566 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers |
| 567 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO) |
| 568 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys. |
| 569 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) |
| 570 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions |
| 571 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer |
| 572 o Overhauled Win32 builds |
| 573 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library |
| 574 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime |
| 575 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs |
| 576 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences |
| 577 o Overhauled Perl interface |
| 578 o Lots of source tree cleanups. |
| 579 o Lots of memory leak fixes. |
| 580 o Lots of bug fixes. |
| 581 |
| 582 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c: |
| 583 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches |
| 584 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer |
| 585 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality |
| 586 o Extended Big Number (BN) library |
| 587 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest |
| 588 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher |
| 589 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines |
| 590 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS |
| 591 o Support for various new platforms |
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