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| 
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|   NEWS
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|   ====
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| 
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|   This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL
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|   release. For more details please read the CHANGES file.
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.1 and OpenSSL 3.0.0 [under development]
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| 
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|       o Added OSSL_SERIALIZER, a generic serializer API.
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|       o Added error raising macros, ERR_raise() and ERR_raise_data().
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|       o Deprecated ERR_put_error().
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|       o Added OSSL_PROVIDER_available(), to check provider availibility.
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|       o Added 'openssl mac' that uses the EVP_MAC API.
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|       o Added 'openssl kdf' that uses the EVP_KDF API.
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|       o Add OPENSSL_info() and 'openssl info' to get built-in data.
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|       o Add support for enabling instrumentation through trace and debug
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|         output.
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|       o Changed our version number scheme and set the next major release to
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|         3.0.0
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|       o Added EVP_MAC, an EVP layer MAC API, and a generic EVP_PKEY to EVP_MAC
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|         bridge.
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|       o Removed the heartbeat message in DTLS feature.
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|       o Added EVP_KDF, an EVP layer KDF API, and a generic EVP_PKEY to EVP_KDF
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|         bridge.
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.1 and OpenSSL 1.1.1a [20 Nov 2018]
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| 
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|       o Timing vulnerability in DSA signature generation (CVE-2018-0734)
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|       o Timing vulnerability in ECDSA signature generation (CVE-2018-0735)
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0i and OpenSSL 1.1.1 [11 Sep 2018]
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| 
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|       o Support for TLSv1.3 added (see https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/TLS1.3
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|         for further important information). The TLSv1.3 implementation includes:
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|           o Fully compliant implementation of RFC8446 (TLSv1.3) on by default
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|           o Early data (0-RTT)
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|           o Post-handshake authentication and key update
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|           o Middlebox Compatibility Mode
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|           o TLSv1.3 PSKs
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|           o Support for all five RFC8446 ciphersuites
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|           o RSA-PSS signature algorithms (backported to TLSv1.2)
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|           o Configurable session ticket support
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|           o Stateless server support
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|           o Rewrite of the packet construction code for "safer" packet handling
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|           o Rewrite of the extension handling code
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|       o Complete rewrite of the OpenSSL random number generator to introduce the
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|         following capabilities
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|           o The default RAND method now utilizes an AES-CTR DRBG according to
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|             NIST standard SP 800-90Ar1.
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|           o Support for multiple DRBG instances with seed chaining.
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|           o There is a public and private DRBG instance.
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|           o The DRBG instances are fork-safe.
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|           o Keep all global DRBG instances on the secure heap if it is enabled.
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|           o The public and private DRBG instance are per thread for lock free
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|             operation
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|       o Support for various new cryptographic algorithms including:
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|           o SHA3
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|           o SHA512/224 and SHA512/256
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|           o EdDSA (both Ed25519 and Ed448) including X509 and TLS support
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|           o X448 (adding to the existing X25519 support in 1.1.0)
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|           o Multi-prime RSA
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|           o SM2
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|           o SM3
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|           o SM4
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|           o SipHash
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|           o ARIA (including TLS support)
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|       o Significant Side-Channel attack security improvements
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|       o Add a new ClientHello callback to provide the ability to adjust the SSL
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|         object at an early stage.
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|       o Add 'Maximum Fragment Length' TLS extension negotiation and support
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|       o A new STORE module, which implements a uniform and URI based reader of
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|         stores that can contain keys, certificates, CRLs and numerous other
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|         objects.
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|       o Move the display of configuration data to configdata.pm.
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|       o Allow GNU style "make variables" to be used with Configure.
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|       o Claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL, represented as symbol prefixes
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|       o Rewrite of devcrypto engine
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0h and OpenSSL 1.1.0i [under development]
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| 
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|       o Client DoS due to large DH parameter (CVE-2018-0732)
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|       o Cache timing vulnerability in RSA Key Generation (CVE-2018-0737)
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0g and OpenSSL 1.1.0h [under development]
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| 
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|       o Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the
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|         stack (CVE-2018-0739)
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|       o Incorrect CRYPTO_memcmp on HP-UX PA-RISC (CVE-2018-0733)
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|       o rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3738)
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
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| 
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|       o bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736)
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|       o Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read (CVE-2017-3735)
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0e and OpenSSL 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
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| 
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|       o config now recognises 64-bit mingw and chooses mingw64 instead of mingw
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0d and OpenSSL 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
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| 
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|       o Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash (CVE-2017-3733)
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0c and OpenSSL 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
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| 
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|       o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731)
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|       o Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash (CVE-2017-3730)
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|       o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732)
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0b and OpenSSL 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
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| 
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|       o ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow (CVE-2016-7054)
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|       o CMS Null dereference (CVE-2016-7053)
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|       o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055)
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
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| 
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|       o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309)
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
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| 
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|       o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304)
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|       o SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305)
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|       o Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header()
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|        (CVE-2016-6307)
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|       o Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
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|        (CVE-2016-6308)
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
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| 
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|       o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license
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|       o "shared" builds are now the default when possible
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|       o Added support for "pipelining"
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|       o Added the AFALG engine
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|       o New threading API implemented
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|       o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl
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|       o Support for extended master secret
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|       o CCM ciphersuites
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|       o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More
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|       o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque,
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|         including:
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|         BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD,
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|         DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD,
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|         BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX,
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|         EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX,
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|         X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE,
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|         X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD
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|       o libssl internal structures made opaque
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|       o SSLv2 support removed
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|       o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed
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|       o RC4 removed from DEFAULT ciphersuites in libssl
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|       o 40 and 56 bit cipher support removed from libssl
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|       o All public header files moved to include/openssl, no more symlinking
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|       o SSL/TLS state machine, version negotiation and record layer rewritten
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|       o EC revision: now operations use new EC_KEY_METHOD.
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|       o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto
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|       o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl
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|       o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either
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|         relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure
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|         argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option.
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|       o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version
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|         to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed.
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|       o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication
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|       o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation
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|         directory location rather than --openssldir.  The latter becomes
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|         the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively.
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|       o Reworked BIO networking library, with full support for IPv6.
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|       o New "unified" build system
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|       o New security levels
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|       o Support for scrypt algorithm
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|       o Support for X25519
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|       o Extended SSL_CONF support using configuration files
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|       o KDF algorithm support. Implement TLS PRF as a KDF.
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|       o Support for Certificate Transparency
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|       o HKDF support.
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
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| 
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|       o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107)
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|       o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105)
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|       o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106)
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|       o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109)
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|       o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176)
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|       o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
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|         callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
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|       o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list.  This removes singles DES from
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|         the default.
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|       o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option.
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
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| 
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|       o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
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|       o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers
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|         (CVE-2016-0800)
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|       o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)
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|       o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak
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|         (CVE-2016-0798)
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|       o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
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|         (CVE-2016-0797)
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|       o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799)
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|       o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702)
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
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| 
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|       o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)
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|       o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197)
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
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| 
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|       o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193)
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|       o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194)
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|       o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195)
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|       o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs
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|       o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
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|         return an error
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
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| 
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|       o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793)
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|       o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196)
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
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| 
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|       o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
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| 
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|       o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788)
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|       o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789)
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|       o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790)
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|       o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792)
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|       o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791)
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
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| 
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|       o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291)
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|       o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290)
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|       o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207)
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|       o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286)
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|       o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208)
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|       o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287)
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|       o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289)
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|       o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293)
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|       o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787)
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|       o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285)
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|       o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209)
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|       o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288)
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|       o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]:
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| 
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|       o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
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|       o Support for DTLS 1.2
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|       o TLS automatic EC curve selection.
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|       o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves
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|       o SSL_CONF configuration API.
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|       o TLS Brainpool support.
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|       o ALPN support.
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|       o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH.
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
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| 
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|       o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
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| 
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
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|       o Fix for CVE-2015-0206
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
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|       o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
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|       o Fix for CVE-2015-0205
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
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| 
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
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|       o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
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| 
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-3512
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-3511
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-3509
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-5139
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
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| 
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-0198
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
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|       o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
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| 
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-0160
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|       o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
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|       o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
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| 
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|       o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values
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|       o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353
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|       o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449
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|       o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]:
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| 
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|       o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]:
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| 
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|       o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version.
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|       o Include the fips configuration module.
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|       o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
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|       o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
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|       o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]:
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| 
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|       o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
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|       o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode.
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]:
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| 
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|       o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms.
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|       o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode.
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|       o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]:
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| 
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|       o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
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|       o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos.
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|       o Fix SEGV in AES code.
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]:
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| 
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|       o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
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|       o SCTP support.
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|       o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
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|       o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
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|       o Next Protocol Negotiation.
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|       o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
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|       o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
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|       o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
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|       o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
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|       o SRP support.
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]:
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| 
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|       o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
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|       o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
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|       o Various DTLS fixes.
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]:
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| 
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|       o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]:
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| 
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|       o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
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|       o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
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|       o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
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|       o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027
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|       o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]:
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| 
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|       o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207
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|       o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210
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|       o Protection against EC timing attacks.
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|       o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms.
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|       o Various DTLS fixes.
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]:
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| 
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|       o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]:
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| 
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|       o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
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|       o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
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|       o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension.
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|       o Fix various platform compilation issues.
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|       o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]:
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| 
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|       o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
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|       o Fix for CVE-2010-2939
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|       o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE.
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]:
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| 
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|       o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633.
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|       o GOST MAC and CFB fixes.
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]:
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| 
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|       o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests.
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|       o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs.
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|       o Change default private key format to PKCS#8.
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|       o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134
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|       o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
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|       o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
 | |
|       o ASN1 printing support.
 | |
|       o Whirlpool hash algorithm added.
 | |
|       o RFC3161 time stamp support.
 | |
|       o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms.
 | |
|       o New generalised public key API utilities.
 | |
|       o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms.
 | |
|       o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support.
 | |
|       o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support.
 | |
|       o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support.
 | |
|       o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites.
 | |
|       o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
 | |
|       o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types.
 | |
|       o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support.
 | |
|       o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o CFB cipher definition fixes.
 | |
|       o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Cipher definition fixes.
 | |
|       o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
 | |
|       o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
 | |
|       o SPKAC handling fixes.
 | |
|       o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
 | |
|       o Compression memory leak fixed.
 | |
|       o Compression session resumption fixed.
 | |
|       o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
 | |
|       o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Fix various build issues.
 | |
|       o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
 | |
|       o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
 | |
|       o Various precautionary measures.
 | |
|       o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
 | |
|       o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
 | |
|       o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Add gcc 4.2 support.
 | |
|       o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization
 | |
|         for VC++ build.
 | |
|       o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
 | |
|         selected at compile time.
 | |
|       o DTLS improvements.
 | |
|       o RFC4507bis support.
 | |
|       o TLS Extensions support.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
 | |
|       o RFC3779 support.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS  (CVE-2006-2940)
 | |
|       o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
 | |
|       o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
 | |
|       o New cipher Camellia
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Cipher string fixes.
 | |
|       o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
 | |
|       o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
 | |
|       o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
 | |
|       o Zlib compression usage fixes.
 | |
|       o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
 | |
|       o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
 | |
|       o Extended Windows CE support
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
 | |
|         make operations more streamlined and less contradictory.  This
 | |
|         is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
 | |
|       o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
 | |
|         curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
 | |
|       o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
 | |
|         the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
 | |
|       o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
 | |
|         configuration file.
 | |
|       o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
 | |
|       o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
 | |
|       o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
 | |
|         programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
 | |
|         Makefile.shared.
 | |
|       o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
 | |
|       o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
 | |
|         automatically from specifically given directories.
 | |
|       o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
 | |
|       o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
 | |
|       o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
 | |
|         mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
 | |
|         function and an argument.
 | |
|       o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
 | |
|       o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
 | |
|         Nehemiah processors.
 | |
|       o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
 | |
|         See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
 | |
|       o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
 | |
|         constraints and name constraints.
 | |
|       o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
 | |
|         configuration file.
 | |
|       o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
 | |
|         in the 'openssl ca' index file.
 | |
|       o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
 | |
|         'openssl ca -selfsign'.
 | |
|       o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
 | |
|         'openssl ca -create_serial'.
 | |
|       o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
 | |
|       o New BUF functions.
 | |
|       o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
 | |
|         sorts of data repositories.  Supports storage of public and
 | |
|         private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
 | |
|         This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused within
 | |
|         OpenSSL.
 | |
|       o New control functions for the error stack.
 | |
|       o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
 | |
|         processing.
 | |
|       o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
 | |
|         functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
 | |
|         'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
 | |
|       o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
 | |
|         affected functions.
 | |
|       o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
 | |
|       o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
 | |
|       o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parameterisation
 | |
|         of X.509 path validation.
 | |
|       o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
 | |
|         AMD64.
 | |
|       o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
 | |
|         by default.  Those can be explicitly enabled with the new
 | |
|         argument form 'enable-xxx'.
 | |
|       o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
 | |
|         SHA-1.
 | |
|       o Added support for DTLS.
 | |
|       o New BIGNUM blinding.
 | |
|       o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
 | |
|       o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
 | |
|       o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
 | |
|       o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
 | |
|       o Added initial support for Win64.
 | |
|       o Added alternate pkg-config files.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
 | |
|       o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS  (CVE-2006-2940)
 | |
|       o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
 | |
|       o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE its old value, except for a FIPS build.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
 | |
|       o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
 | |
|       o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o More compilation issues fixed.
 | |
|       o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
 | |
|       o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
 | |
|       o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
 | |
|       o More constification.
 | |
|       o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Several compilation issues fixed.
 | |
|       o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
 | |
|       o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
 | |
|       o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
 | |
|       o Performance improvements.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
 | |
|       o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
 | |
|       o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
 | |
|       o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
 | |
|       o Multiple X509 verification fixes
 | |
|       o Speed up HMAC and other operations
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
 | |
|       o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
 | |
|       o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
 | |
|       o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
 | |
|         Bleichbacher's attack
 | |
|       o Security: make RSA blinding default.
 | |
|       o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
 | |
|       o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
 | |
|       o Build: shared library support fixes.
 | |
|       o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
 | |
|       o Documentation: fixes and additions.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
 | |
|       o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
 | |
|       o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
 | |
|       o IA32 assembler enhancements.
 | |
|       o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
 | |
|       o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
 | |
|       o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
 | |
|       o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o New library section OCSP.
 | |
|       o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
 | |
|       o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
 | |
|       o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
 | |
|       o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
 | |
|       o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
 | |
|       o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer
 | |
|         a separate distribution.
 | |
|       o New elliptic curve library section.
 | |
|       o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
 | |
|       o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
 | |
|         Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
 | |
|       o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
 | |
|       o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
 | |
|       o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
 | |
|       o Support for pkg-config.
 | |
|       o Lots of new manuals.
 | |
|       o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described
 | |
|         functions.
 | |
|       o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
 | |
|         against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
 | |
|         Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
 | |
|         future).
 | |
|       o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
 | |
|         to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
 | |
|       o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
 | |
|       o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
 | |
|         and help optimizers.
 | |
|       o Finally remove references to RSAref.
 | |
|       o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
 | |
|       o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
 | |
|         Processing, IBM 4758.
 | |
|       o A few new engines added in the demos area.
 | |
|       o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
 | |
|       o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
 | |
|         EGD style random sources at several locations.
 | |
|       o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
 | |
|       o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
 | |
|       o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
 | |
|         Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
 | |
|       o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
 | |
|       o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
 | |
|       o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
 | |
|       o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
 | |
|         Bleichbacher's attack
 | |
|       o Security: make RSA blinding default.
 | |
|       o Build: shared library support fixes.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Important security related bugfixes.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
 | |
|       o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
 | |
|       o Better handling of SSL session caching.
 | |
|       o Better comparison of distinguished names.
 | |
|       o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
 | |
|       o Support assembler code with Borland C.
 | |
|       o Fixes for length problems.
 | |
|       o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
 | |
|       o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
 | |
|       o Fixes for smaller building problems.
 | |
|       o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Important building fixes on Unix.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Various important bugfixes.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Important security related bugfixes.
 | |
|       o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
 | |
|       o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
 | |
|       o BIGNUM library fixes.
 | |
|       o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
 | |
|       o Object identifiers corrected and added.
 | |
|       o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
 | |
|       o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
 | |
|         MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
 | |
|       o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
 | |
|         Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
 | |
|         [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
 | |
|       o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
 | |
|       o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
 | |
|         attack.
 | |
|       o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
 | |
|       o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
 | |
|       o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
 | |
|       o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
 | |
|       o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
 | |
|       o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
 | |
|       o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
 | |
|       o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
 | |
|       o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
 | |
|       o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
 | |
|         environment variables when running as root.
 | |
|       o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
 | |
|         possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
 | |
|         calculated signature.
 | |
|       o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
 | |
|       o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
 | |
|         master secret in DH ciphersuites.
 | |
|       o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
 | |
|       o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
 | |
|         des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
 | |
|       o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
 | |
|       o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
 | |
|         memory checking routines.
 | |
|       o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
 | |
|       o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications.
 | |
|       o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
 | |
|       o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
 | |
|       o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
 | |
|       o More documentation.
 | |
|       o New function BN_rand_range().
 | |
|       o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
 | |
|       o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
 | |
|       o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
 | |
|       o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
 | |
|       o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
 | |
|       o MD4 now included.
 | |
|       o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
 | |
|       o Support for external crypto devices [1].
 | |
|       o Enhanced EVP interface.
 | |
| 
 | |
|     [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate
 | |
|         distribution.  See the file README.ENGINE.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
 | |
|       o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
 | |
|       o Support of Linux/IA64
 | |
|       o Assembler support for Mingw32
 | |
|       o New 'rand' application
 | |
|       o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
 | |
| 
 | |
|       o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
 | |
|       o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
 | |
|       o Automation of 'req' application
 | |
|       o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
 | |
|       o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
 | |
|       o New SPKAC command line utility and associated library functions
 | |
|       o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
 | |
|       o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
 | |
|       o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
 | |
|       o Usable certificate chain verification
 | |
|       o Certificate purpose checking
 | |
|       o Certificate trust settings
 | |
|       o Support of authority information access extension
 | |
|       o Extensions in certificate requests
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|       o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
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|       o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
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|       o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
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|       o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
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|       o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
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|         record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
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|         data
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|       o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
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|       o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
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|       o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
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|         RSA functionality
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|       o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
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|         via a per-thread stack
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|       o PRNG robustness improved
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|       o EGD support
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|       o BIGNUM library bug fixes
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|       o Faster DSA parameter generation
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|       o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux
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|       o Experimental MacOS support
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
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| 
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|       o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
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|         by several software packages and are more secure than the standard
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|         form
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|       o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
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|       o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
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|       o Avoid various memory leaks
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|       o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
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|         must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
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|       o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
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|       o RSA OEAP related fixes
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|       o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
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|       o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
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|       o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
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|       o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
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|         extension support
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|       o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
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|       o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
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|       o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
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|       o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
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|       o Option to disable selected ciphers
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| 
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|   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
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|       o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
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|       o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
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|       o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
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|       o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
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|       o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
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|       o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
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|       o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
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|       o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
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|       o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
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|       o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
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|       o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
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|       o Overhauled Win32 builds
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|       o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
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|       o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
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|       o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
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|       o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
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|       o Overhauled Perl interface
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|       o Lots of source tree cleanups.
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|       o Lots of memory leak fixes.
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|       o Lots of bug fixes.
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| 
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|   Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
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|       o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
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|       o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
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|       o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
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|       o Extended Big Number (BN) library
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|       o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
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|       o Added support for RC2/64bit cipher
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|       o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
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|       o Adjustments of the source tree for CVS
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|       o Support for various new platforms
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