ANNOUNCE: OpenSSL 0.9.6 released

[Richard Levitte]

  OpenSSL version 0.9.6 released
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  OpenSSL - The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS
  http://www.openssl.org/

  The OpenSSL project team is pleased to announce the release of version
  0.9.6 of our open source toolkit for SSL/TLS.  This new OpenSSL version
  is a major release and incorporates at least 91 changes and bugfixes to the
  toolkit (for a complete list see http://www.openssl.org/source/exp/CHANGES).

  The most significant changes are:

      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.

  We consider OpenSSL 0.9.6 to be the best version of OpenSSL available and we
  strongly recommend that users of older versions, especially of old SSLeay
  versions, upgrade as soon as possible.  OpenSSL 0.9.6 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/

  [1] OpenSSL comes in the form of two distributions this time.
  The reasons for this is that we want to deploy the external crypto device
  support but don't want to have it part of the "normal" distribution just
  yet.  The distribution containing the external crypto device support is
  popularly called "engine", and is considered experimental.  It's been
  fairly well tested on Unix and flavors thereof.  If run on a system with
  no external crypto device, it will work just like the "normal" distribution.

  The distribution file names are:

      o openssl-0.9.6.tar.gz [normal]
      o openssl-engine-0.9.6.tar.gz [engine]

  Yours,
  The OpenSSL Project Team...  

    Mark J. Cox             Richard Levitte    Andy Polyakov
    Ralf S. Engelschall     Bodo Möller        Holger Reif
    Dr. Stephen Henson      Ulf Möller         Geoff Thorpe
    Ben Laurie              
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OpenSSL Project         http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/
Software Engineer, Celo Communications: http://www.celocom.com/