NEWS revision 279265
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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 0.9.8zc and OpenSSL 0.9.8zd [8 Jan 2015]
9
10      o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
11      o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
12      o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
13      o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
14      o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
15      o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
16
17  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8zb and OpenSSL 0.9.8zc [15 Oct 2014]:
18
19      o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
20      o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
21      o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
22      o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
23
24  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8za and OpenSSL 0.9.8zb [6 Aug 2014]:
25
26      o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
27      o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
28      o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
29      o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
30      o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
31
32  Known issues in OpenSSL 0.9.8za:
33
34      o Compilation failure of s3_pkt.c on some platforms due to missing
35        <limits.h> include. Fixed in 0.9.8zb-dev.
36      o FIPS capable link failure with missing symbol BN_consttime_swap.
37        Fixed in 0.9.8zb-dev. Workaround is to compile with no-ec: the EC
38        algorithms are not FIPS approved in OpenSSL 0.9.8 anyway.
39
40  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8y and OpenSSL 0.9.8za [5 Jun 2014]:
41
42      o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
43      o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
44      o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
45      o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
46      o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
47      o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
48      o Fix to TLS alert handling.
49
50  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8x and OpenSSL 0.9.8y [5 Feb 2013]:
51
52      o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
53      o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
54
55  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8w and OpenSSL 0.9.8x [10 May 2012]:
56
57      o Fix DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
58
59  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8v and OpenSSL 0.9.8w [23 Apr 2012]:
60
61      o Fix for CVE-2012-2131 (corrected fix for 0.9.8 and CVE-2012-2110)
62
63  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8u and OpenSSL 0.9.8v [19 Apr 2012]:
64
65      o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
66
67  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8t and OpenSSL 0.9.8u [12 Mar 2012]:
68
69      o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
70      o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
71      o Various DTLS fixes.
72
73  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8s and OpenSSL 0.9.8t [18 Jan 2012]:
74
75      o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
76
77  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8r and OpenSSL 0.9.8s [4 Jan 2012]:
78
79      o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
80      o Fix policy check double free error CVE-2011-4109
81      o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
82      o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
83      o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
84
85  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8q and OpenSSL 0.9.8r [8 Feb 2011]:
86
87      o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
88
89  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 0.9.8q [2 Dec 2010]:
90
91      o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
92      o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
93
94  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8o and OpenSSL 0.9.8p [16 Nov 2010]:
95
96      o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
97
98  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 0.9.8o [1 Jun 2010]:
99
100      o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-0742.
101      o Various DTLS fixes.
102      o Recognise SHA2 certificates if only SSL algorithms added.
103      o Fix for no-rc4 compilation.
104      o Chil ENGINE unload workaround.
105
106  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
107
108      o CFB cipher definition fixes.
109      o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
110
111  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
112
113      o Cipher definition fixes.
114      o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
115      o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
116      o SPKAC handling fixes.
117      o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
118      o Compression memory leak fixed.
119      o Compression session resumption fixed.
120      o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
121      o Many fixes to DTLS handling. 
122
123  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
124
125      o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
126
127  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
128
129      o Fix various build issues.
130      o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
131
132  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
133
134      o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
135      o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
136
137  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
138
139      o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
140      o Various precautionary measures.
141      o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
142      o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
143
144  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
145
146      o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
147      o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
148
149  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
150
151      o Add gcc 4.2 support.
152      o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization
153        for VC++ build.
154      o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly 
155        selected at compile time.
156      o DTLS improvements.
157      o RFC4507bis support.
158      o TLS Extensions support.
159
160  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
161
162      o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
163      o RFC3779 support.
164
165  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
166
167      o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS  (CVE-2006-2940)
168      o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
169      o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
170
171  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
172
173      o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
174      o New cipher Camellia
175
176  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
177
178      o Cipher string fixes.
179      o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
180      o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
181      o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
182      o Zlib compression usage fixes.
183      o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
184      o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
185
186  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
187
188      o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
189      o Extended Windows CE support
190
191  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
192
193      o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
194        make operations more streamlined and less contradictory.  This
195        is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
196      o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
197        curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
198      o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
199        the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
200      o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
201        configuration file.
202      o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
203      o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
204      o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
205        programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
206        Makefile.shared.
207      o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
208      o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
209        automatically from specifically given directories.
210      o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
211      o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
212      o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
213        mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
214        function and an argument.
215      o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
216      o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
217        Nehemiah processors.
218      o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
219        See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
220      o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
221        constraints and name constraints.
222      o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
223        configuration file.
224      o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
225        in the 'openssl ca' index file.
226      o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
227        'openssl ca -selfsign'.
228      o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
229        'openssl ca -create_serial'.
230      o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
231      o New BUF functions.
232      o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
233        sorts of data repositories.  Supports storage of public and
234        private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
235	This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing
236	OpenSSL.
237      o New control functions for the error stack.
238      o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
239        processing.
240      o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
241        functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
242        'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
243      o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
244        affected functions.
245      o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
246      o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
247      o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation
248        of X.509 path validation.
249      o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
250        AMD64.
251      o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
252        by default.  Those can be explicitely enabled with the new
253        argument form 'enable-xxx'.
254      o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
255        SHA-1.
256      o Added support for DTLS.
257      o New BIGNUM blinding.
258      o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
259      o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
260      o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
261      o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
262      o Added initial support for Win64.
263      o Added alternate pkg-config files.
264
265  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
266
267      o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
268      o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
269
270  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
271
272      o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS  (CVE-2006-2940)
273      o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
274
275  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
276
277      o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
278
279  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
280
281      o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
282      o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
283
284  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
285
286      o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
287
288  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
289
290      o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
291      o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
292      o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
293
294  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
295
296      o More compilation issues fixed.
297      o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
298      o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
299      o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
300      o More constification.
301      o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
302
303  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
304
305      o Several compilation issues fixed.
306      o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
307      o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
308      o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
309      o Performance improvements.
310
311  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
312
313      o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
314      o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
315
316  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
317
318      o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
319      o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
320      o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
321      o Multiple X509 verification fixes
322      o Speed up HMAC and other operations
323
324  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
325
326      o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
327      o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
328      o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
329      o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
330
331  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
332
333      o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
334        Bleichbacher's attack 
335      o Security: make RSA blinding default.
336      o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
337      o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
338      o Build: shared library support fixes.
339      o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
340      o Documentation: fixes and additions.
341
342  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
343
344      o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
345      o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
346      o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
347      o IA32 assembler enhancements.
348      o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
349      o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
350      o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
351      o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
352
353  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
354
355      o New library section OCSP.
356      o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
357      o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
358      o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
359      o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
360      o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
361      o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer
362        a separate distribution.
363      o New elliptic curve library section.
364      o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
365      o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
366        Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
367      o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
368      o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
369      o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
370      o Support for pkg-config.
371      o Lots of new manuals.
372      o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described
373        functions.
374      o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
375        against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
376        Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
377        future).
378      o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
379        to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
380      o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
381      o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
382        and help optimizers.
383      o Finally remove references to RSAref.
384      o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
385      o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
386        Processing, IBM 4758.
387      o A few new engines added in the demos area.
388      o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
389      o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
390        EGD style random sources at several locations.
391      o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
392      o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
393      o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
394	Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
395      o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
396      o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
397      o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
398
399  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
400
401      o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
402      o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
403
404  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
405
406      o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
407        Bleichbacher's attack 
408      o Security: make RSA blinding default.
409      o Build: shared library support fixes.
410
411  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
412
413      o Important security related bugfixes.
414
415  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
416
417      o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
418      o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
419      o Better handling of SSL session caching.
420      o Better comparison of distinguished names.
421      o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
422      o Support assembler code with Borland C.
423      o Fixes for length problems.
424      o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
425      o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
426      o Fixes for smaller building problems.
427      o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
428
429  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
430
431      o Important building fixes on Unix.
432
433  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
434
435      o Various important bugfixes.
436
437  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
438
439      o Important security related bugfixes.
440      o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
441
442  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
443
444      o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
445      o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
446
447  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
448
449      o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
450      o BIGNUM library fixes.
451      o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
452      o Object identifiers corrected and added.
453      o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
454      o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
455        MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
456      o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
457        Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
458        [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
459
460  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
461
462      o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
463      o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
464      o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
465        attack.
466      o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
467      o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
468      o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
469      o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
470      o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
471      o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
472      o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
473      o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
474      o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
475      o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
476
477  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
478
479      o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
480        environment variables when running as root.
481      o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
482        possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
483        calculated signature.
484      o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
485      o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
486        master secret in DH ciphersuites.
487      o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
488      o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
489        des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
490      o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
491      o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
492        memory checking routines.
493      o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
494      o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications.
495      o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
496      o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
497      o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
498      o More documentation.
499      o New function BN_rand_range().
500      o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server.
501
502  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
503
504      o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
505      o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
506      o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
507      o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
508      o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
509      o MD4 now included.
510      o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
511      o Support for external crypto devices [1].
512      o Enhanced EVP interface.
513
514    [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate
515        distribution.  See the file README.ENGINE.
516
517  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
518
519      o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 
520      o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
521      o Support of Linux/IA64
522      o Assembler support for Mingw32
523      o New 'rand' application
524      o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
525
526  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
527
528      o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
529      o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
530      o Automation of 'req' application
531      o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
532      o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
533      o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions
534      o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
535      o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
536      o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
537      o Usable certificate chain verification
538      o Certificate purpose checking
539      o Certificate trust settings
540      o Support of authority information access extension
541      o Extensions in certificate requests
542      o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
543      o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
544      o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
545      o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
546      o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
547        record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
548        data
549      o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
550      o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
551      o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
552        RSA functionality
553      o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
554        via a per-thread stack
555      o PRNG robustness improved
556      o EGD support
557      o BIGNUM library bug fixes
558      o Faster DSA parameter generation
559      o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux
560      o Experimental MacOS support
561
562  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
563
564      o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
565        by several software packages and are more secure than the standard
566        form
567      o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
568      o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
569      o Avoid various memory leaks
570      o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
571        must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
572
573  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
574      o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
575      o RSA OEAP related fixes
576      o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
577      o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
578      o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
579      o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
580        extension support
581      o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
582      o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
583      o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
584      o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
585      o Option to disable selected ciphers
586
587  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
588      o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
589      o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
590      o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
591      o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
592      o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
593      o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
594      o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
595      o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
596      o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
597      o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
598      o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
599      o Overhauled Win32 builds
600      o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
601      o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
602      o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
603      o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
604      o Overhauled Perl interface
605      o Lots of source tree cleanups.
606      o Lots of memory leak fixes.
607      o Lots of bug fixes.
608
609  Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
610      o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
611      o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
612      o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
613      o Extended Big Number (BN) library
614      o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
615      o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
616      o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
617      o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
618      o Support for various new platforms
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