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1 2 NEWS 3 ==== 4 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 8 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014] 9 10 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513 11 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567 12 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability) 13 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568 14 15 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014] 16 17 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512 18 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511 19 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510 20 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507 21 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506 22 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505 23 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509 24 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139 25 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508 26 27 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014] 28 29 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224 30 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221 31 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198 32 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195 33 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470 34 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298 35 36 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014] 37 38 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160 39 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers. 40 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076 41 42 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014] 43 44 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values 45 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353 46 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449 47 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450 48 49 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]: 50 51 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169 52 53 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]: 54 55 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version. 56 o Include the fips configuration module. 57 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166 58 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169 59 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686 60 61 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]: 62 63 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333 64 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode. 65 66 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]: 67 68 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms. 69 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode. 70 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0 71 72 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]: 73 74 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 75 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos. 76 o Fix SEGV in AES code. 77 78 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]: 79 80 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support. 81 o SCTP support. 82 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter. 83 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation. 84 o Next Protocol Negotiation. 85 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs. 86 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS. 87 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1. 88 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module. 89 o SRP support. 90 91 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0j and OpenSSL 1.0.0k [5 Feb 2013]: 92 93 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169 94 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166 95 96 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0i and OpenSSL 1.0.0j [10 May 2012]: 97 98 o Fix DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333 99 100 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.0i [19 Apr 2012]: 101 102 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 103 104 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]: 105 106 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884 107 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619 108 o Various DTLS fixes. 109 110 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]: 111 112 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050 113 114 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]: 115 116 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108 117 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576 118 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619 119 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027 120 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577 121 122 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]: 123 124 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207 125 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210 126 o Protection against EC timing attacks. 127 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms. 128 o Various DTLS fixes. 129 130 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]: 131 132 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014 133 134 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]: 135 136 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180 137 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252 138 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension. 139 o Fix various platform compilation issues. 140 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. 141 142 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]: 143 144 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. 145 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939 146 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE. 147 148 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]: 149 150 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633. 151 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes. 152 153 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]: 154 155 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests. 156 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs. 157 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8. 158 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134 159 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS. 160 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS. 161 o ASN1 printing support. 162 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added. 163 o RFC3161 time stamp support. 164 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms. 165 o New generalised public key API utilities. 166 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms. 167 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support. 168 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support. 169 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support. 170 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites. 171 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types. 172 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types. 173 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support. 174 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations. 175 176 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8x and OpenSSL 0.9.8y [5 Feb 2013]: 177 178 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169 179 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166 180 181 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8w and OpenSSL 0.9.8x [10 May 2012]: 182 183 o Fix DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333 184 185 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8v and OpenSSL 0.9.8w [23 Apr 2012]: 186 187 o Fix for CVE-2012-2131 (corrected fix for 0.9.8 and CVE-2012-2110) 188 189 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8u and OpenSSL 0.9.8v [19 Apr 2012]: 190 191 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 192 193 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8t and OpenSSL 0.9.8u [12 Mar 2012]: 194 195 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884 196 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619 197 o Various DTLS fixes. 198 199 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8s and OpenSSL 0.9.8t [18 Jan 2012]: 200 201 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050 202 203 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8r and OpenSSL 0.9.8s [4 Jan 2012]: 204 205 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108 206 o Fix policy check double free error CVE-2011-4109 207 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576 208 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619 209 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577 210 211 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8q and OpenSSL 0.9.8r [8 Feb 2011]: 212 213 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014 214 215 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 0.9.8q [2 Dec 2010]: 216 217 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180 218 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252 219 220 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8o and OpenSSL 0.9.8p [16 Nov 2010]: 221 222 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. 223 224 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 0.9.8o [1 Jun 2010]: 225 226 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-0742. 227 o Various DTLS fixes. 228 o Recognise SHA2 certificates if only SSL algorithms added. 229 o Fix for no-rc4 compilation. 230 o Chil ENGINE unload workaround. 231 232 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]: 233 234 o CFB cipher definition fixes. 235 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433. 236 237 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]: 238 239 o Cipher definition fixes. 240 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions. 241 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables. 242 o SPKAC handling fixes. 243 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension. 244 o Compression memory leak fixed. 245 o Compression session resumption fixed. 246 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes. 247 o Many fixes to DTLS handling. 248 249 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]: 250 251 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation. 252 253 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]: 254 255 o Fix various build issues. 256 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789) 257 258 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]: 259 260 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077) 261 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code. 262 263 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]: 264 265 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support. 266 o Various precautionary measures. 267 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation. 268 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files. 269 270 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]: 271 272 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8. 273 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f. 274 275 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]: 276 277 o Add gcc 4.2 support. 278 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization 279 for VC++ build. 280 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly 281 selected at compile time. 282 o DTLS improvements. 283 o RFC4507bis support. 284 o TLS Extensions support. 285 286 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]: 287 288 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. 289 o RFC3779 support. 290 291 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]: 292 293 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) 294 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) 295 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm 296 297 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]: 298 299 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 300 o New cipher Camellia 301 302 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]: 303 304 o Cipher string fixes. 305 o Fixes for VC++ 2005. 306 o Updated ECC cipher suite support. 307 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free(). 308 o Zlib compression usage fixes. 309 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32. 310 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32. 311 312 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]: 313 314 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969 315 o Extended Windows CE support 316 317 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]: 318 319 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to 320 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This 321 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library. 322 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST 323 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions. 324 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including 325 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE. 326 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL 327 configuration file. 328 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding. 329 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files. 330 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking 331 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate 332 Makefile.shared. 333 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another. 334 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules 335 automatically from specifically given directories. 336 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair. 337 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful. 338 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress" 339 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker 340 function and an argument. 341 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation). 342 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3 343 Nehemiah processors. 344 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions. 345 See RFC 1884, section 2.2. 346 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy 347 constraints and name constraints. 348 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL 349 configuration file. 350 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject 351 in the 'openssl ca' index file. 352 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using 353 'openssl ca -selfsign'. 354 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with 355 'openssl ca -create_serial'. 356 o New binary search functions with extended functionality. 357 o New BUF functions. 358 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all 359 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and 360 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs. 361 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing 362 OpenSSL. 363 o New control functions for the error stack. 364 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME 365 processing. 366 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated 367 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the 368 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts. 369 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other 370 affected functions. 371 o Improved platform support for PowerPC. 372 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512). 373 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation 374 of X.509 path validation. 375 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and 376 AMD64. 377 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled 378 by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new 379 argument form 'enable-xxx'. 380 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to 381 SHA-1. 382 o Added support for DTLS. 383 o New BIGNUM blinding. 384 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme 385 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding. 386 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare. 387 o Added support for files larger than 2GB. 388 o Added initial support for Win64. 389 o Added alternate pkg-config files. 390 391 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]: 392 393 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking. 394 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. 395 396 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]: 397 398 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) 399 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) 400 401 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]: 402 403 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 404 405 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]: 406 407 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes. 408 o Update Windows build system for FIPS. 409 410 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]: 411 412 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build. 413 414 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]: 415 416 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969 417 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing 418 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations 419 420 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]: 421 422 o More compilation issues fixed. 423 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API. 424 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin. 425 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module. 426 o More constification. 427 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820). 428 429 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]: 430 431 o Several compilation issues fixed. 432 o Many memory allocation failure checks added. 433 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type. 434 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates. 435 o Performance improvements. 436 437 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]: 438 439 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code. 440 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code. 441 442 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]: 443 444 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug 445 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec() 446 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index 447 o Multiple X509 verification fixes 448 o Speed up HMAC and other operations 449 450 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]: 451 452 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. 453 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility. 454 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code. 455 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. 456 457 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]: 458 459 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of 460 Bleichbacher's attack 461 o Security: make RSA blinding default. 462 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support. 463 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc. 464 o Build: shared library support fixes. 465 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly. 466 o Documentation: fixes and additions. 467 468 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]: 469 470 o Security: Important security related bugfixes. 471 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos. 472 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework. 473 o IA32 assembler enhancements. 474 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64. 475 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly. 476 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building. 477 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected. 478 479 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]: 480 481 o New library section OCSP. 482 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code. 483 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility. 484 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility. 485 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility. 486 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8. 487 o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer 488 a separate distribution. 489 o New elliptic curve library section. 490 o New AES (Rijndael) library section. 491 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit, 492 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9 493 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks 494 o Enhanced support for shared libraries. 495 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested. 496 o Support for pkg-config. 497 o Lots of new manuals. 498 o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described 499 functions. 500 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also 501 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name). 502 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the 503 future). 504 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine) 505 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers. 506 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines. 507 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking 508 and help optimizers. 509 o Finally remove references to RSAref. 510 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code. 511 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption 512 Processing, IBM 4758. 513 o A few new engines added in the demos area. 514 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table. 515 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for 516 EGD style random sources at several locations. 517 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference. 518 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids. 519 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712). 520 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now. 521 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions. 522 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages. 523 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268). 524 525 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]: 526 527 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. 528 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. 529 530 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]: 531 532 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of 533 Bleichbacher's attack 534 o Security: make RSA blinding default. 535 o Build: shared library support fixes. 536 537 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]: 538 539 o Important security related bugfixes. 540 541 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]: 542 543 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX. 544 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes. 545 o Better handling of SSL session caching. 546 o Better comparison of distinguished names. 547 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment. 548 o Support assembler code with Borland C. 549 o Fixes for length problems. 550 o Fixes for uninitialised variables. 551 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions. 552 o Fixes for smaller building problems. 553 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents. 554 555 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]: 556 557 o Important building fixes on Unix. 558 559 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]: 560 561 o Various important bugfixes. 562 563 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]: 564 565 o Important security related bugfixes. 566 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 567 568 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]: 569 570 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 571 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators. 572 573 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]: 574 575 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 576 o BIGNUM library fixes. 577 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes. 578 o Object identifiers corrected and added. 579 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64. 580 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8, 581 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX. 582 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare, 583 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver 584 [in 0.9.6c-engine release]. 585 586 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]: 587 588 o Security fix: PRNG improvements. 589 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check. 590 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's 591 attack. 592 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM. 593 o Bug fix in "openssl enc". 594 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine. 595 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification. 596 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe. 597 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name(). 598 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings. 599 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP. 600 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter. 601 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts. 602 603 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]: 604 605 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using 606 environment variables when running as root. 607 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the 608 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly 609 calculated signature. 610 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack. 611 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the 612 master secret in DH ciphersuites. 613 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems. 614 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to 615 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc. 616 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix. 617 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and 618 memory checking routines. 619 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments. 620 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications. 621 o Remove a few potential memory leaks. 622 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines. 623 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality. 624 o More documentation. 625 o New function BN_rand_range(). 626 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server. 627 628 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]: 629 630 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. 631 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. 632 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. 633 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. 634 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. 635 o MD4 now included. 636 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check. 637 o Support for external crypto devices [1]. 638 o Enhanced EVP interface. 639 640 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate 641 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE. 642 643 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]: 644 645 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 646 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc 647 o Support of Linux/IA64 648 o Assembler support for Mingw32 649 o New 'rand' application 650 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts 651 652 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]: 653 654 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command 655 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application 656 o Automation of 'req' application 657 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows 658 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs 659 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions 660 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources 661 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it 662 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities 663 o Usable certificate chain verification 664 o Certificate purpose checking 665 o Certificate trust settings 666 o Support of authority information access extension 667 o Extensions in certificate requests 668 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines 669 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets 670 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD 671 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function 672 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0 673 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other 674 data 675 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC 676 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug 677 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other 678 RSA functionality 679 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information 680 via a per-thread stack 681 o PRNG robustness improved 682 o EGD support 683 o BIGNUM library bug fixes 684 o Faster DSA parameter generation 685 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux 686 o Experimental MacOS support 687 688 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]: 689 690 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used 691 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard 692 form 693 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation 694 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data 695 o Avoid various memory leaks 696 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O 697 must be handled by the application (BIO pair) 698 699 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]: 700 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism 701 o RSA OEAP related fixes 702 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate 703 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs 704 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files 705 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points 706 extension support 707 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support 708 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString 709 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code 710 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions 711 o Option to disable selected ciphers 712 713 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]: 714 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption 715 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case 716 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers" 717 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher 718 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA 719 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers 720 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO) 721 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys. 722 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) 723 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions 724 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer 725 o Overhauled Win32 builds 726 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library 727 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime 728 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs 729 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences 730 o Overhauled Perl interface 731 o Lots of source tree cleanups. 732 o Lots of memory leak fixes. 733 o Lots of bug fixes. 734 735 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]: 736 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches 737 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer 738 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality 739 o Extended Big Number (BN) library 740 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest 741 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher 742 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines 743 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS 744 o Support for various new platforms 745 746