[ANNOUNCE] OpenSSL 0.9.8 beta 6 released
OpenSSL version 0.9.8 Beta 6 (FINAL!) ===================================== OpenSSL - The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS http://www.openssl.org/ OpenSSL is currently in a release cycle. The sixth beta is now released. The beta release is available for download via HTTP and FTP from the following master locations (the various FTP mirrors you can find under http://www.openssl.org/source/mirror.html): o http://www.openssl.org/source/ o ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/ PLEASE TEST THIS RELEASE! This is a final beta. The final release is due very soon, and we would like your help to make this as good a release as ever possible. Among others, base64 decoding needs extra attention (see below). The file names of the beta are: o openssl-0.9.8-beta6.tar.gz MD5 checksum: e6771df5621169ae616adb3475aac71a SHA1 checksum: d5aad452a4a192780ff1990b5c75513eb8408fe2 The checksums were calculated using the following command: openssl md5 < openssl-0.9.8-beta6.tar.gz openssl sha1 < openssl-0.9.8-beta6.tar.gz Please download and test them as soon as possible. This new OpenSSL version incorporates 104 documented changes and bugfixes to the toolkit (for a complete list see http://www.openssl.org/source/exp/CHANGES and http://www.openssl.org/source/exp/NEWS). Since the fifth beta, the following has happened: - Change the DJGPP setup so it's DEVRANDOM is defined in e_os.h instead of in the build command line. - Worked around a DJGPP command line bug during installation of docs. - Worked out better target selections for BSD ELF. - Corrected the CPUid code for x86_64. - Made the base64 decoder a bit more robust. - We made sure crypto/bn/bn_prime.h is properly built during an update. - Enhanced the documentation on id_function in threads.pod. - Added a fallback to software in the CSwift engine. - Other bug fixes... Reports and patches should be sent to openssl-bugs@openssl.org. Discussions around the development of OpenSSL should be sent to openssl-dev@openssl.org. Anything else should go to openssl-users@openssl.org. The best way, at least on Unix, to create a report is to do the following after configuration: make report That will do a few basic checks of the compiler and bc, then build and run the tests. The result will appear on screen and in the file "testlog". Please read the report before sending it to us. There may be problems that we can't solve for you, like missing programs. Yours, The OpenSSL Project Team... Mark J. Cox Nils Larsch Ulf Möller Ralf S. Engelschall Ben Laurie Andy Polyakov Dr. Stephen Henson Richard Levitte Geoff Thorpe Lutz Jänicke Bodo Möller --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com
OpenSSL version 0.9.8 released ========================================== OpenSSL - The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS http://www.openssl.org/ The OpenSSL project team is pleased to announce the release of version 0.9.8 of our open source toolkit for SSL/TLS. This new OpenSSL version is a major release and incorporates many new features as well as major fixes compared to 0.9.7x. For a complete list of changes, please see http://www.openssl.org/source/exp/CHANGES . The most significant changes are: 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 withing 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 parametrisation 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 explicitely 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. We consider OpenSSL 0.9.8 to be the best version of OpenSSL available and we strongly recommend that users of older versions upgrade as soon as possible. OpenSSL 0.9.8 is available for download via HTTP and FTP from the following master locations (you can find the various FTP mirrors under http://www.openssl.org/source/mirror.html): o http://www.openssl.org/source/ o ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/ The distribution file name is: o openssl-0.9.8.tar.gz MD5 checksum: 9da21071596a124acde6080552deac16 SHA1 checksum: 7350b0f0d1a6d257cb24b9d4dc5e30b80e49d6ac The checksums were calculated using the following command: openssl md5 < openssl-0.9.8.tar.gz openssl sha1 < openssl-0.9.8.tar.gz Yours, The OpenSSL Project Team... Mark J. Cox Nils Larsch Ulf Möller Ralf S. Engelschall Ben Laurie Andy Polyakov Dr. Stephen Henson Richard Levitte Geoff Thorpe Lutz Jänicke Bodo Möller --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com
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