- update from current 0.9.7-stable CHANGES file:
Now here we have "CHANGES between 0.9.7e and 0.9.8", and I hope
that all patches mentioned for 0.9.7d and 0.9.7e actually are
in the CVS HEAD, i.e. what is to become 0.9.8.
I have rewritten the 'openssl ca -create_serial' entry (0.9.8)
so that it explains the earlier change that is now listed (0.9.7e).
The ENGINE_set_default typo bug entry has been moved from 0.9.8
to 0.9.7b, which is where it belongs.
especially for AIX. But most important BIGNUM assembler implementation
submitted by IBM.
Submitted by: Peter Waltenberg <pwalten@au1.ibm.com>
Reviewed by: appro
small key sizes seems to result from the code continually regenerating the
same prime value once the range is small enough. From my tests, this change
fixes the problem by setting an escape velocity of 3 repeats for the second
of the two primes.
PR: 874
proposed the change and submitted the patch, I jiggled it slightly and
adjusted the other parts of openssl that were affected.
PR: 867
Submitted by: Jelte Jansen
Reviewed by: Geoff Thorpe
dependencies of the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED mode. This prevents dependencies
being reproduced for "deprecated" header behaviour when a developer doesn't
define the symbol (with the subsequent CVS wars that can ensue).
changes are the fallout). As this could break source code that doesn't
directly include headers for interfaces it uses, changes to recursive
includes are covered by the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED symbol. It's better to
define this when building and using openssl, and then adapt code where
necessary - this is how to stay current. However the mechanism exists for
the lethargic.
available compiler versions generated bogus machine code trying to
compile new crypto/des/cfb_enc.c. Secondly, 8th version defines
__GNUC__ macro, but fails to compile *some* inline assembler correctly.
Note that all versions of icc implement MSC-like _lrot[rl] intrinsic,
which is used now instead of offensive asm. Finally, unnecessary linker
dependencies are eliminated. Most notably dependency from libirc.a
caused trouble at application start-up, if libcrypto.so is linked with
-Bsymbolic (which it is).
locally initialising their own.
NB: I've removed the "BN_clear_free()" loops for the exit-paths in some of
these functions, and that may be a major part of the performance
improvements we're seeing. The "free" part can be removed because we're
using BN_CTX. The "clear" part OTOH can be removed because BN_CTX
destruction automatically performs this task, so performing it inside
functions that may be called repeatedly is wasteful. This is currently safe
within openssl due to the fact that BN_CTX objects are never created for
longer than a single high-level operation. However, that is only because
there's currently no mechanism in openssl for thread-local storage. Beyond
that, this might be an issue for applications using the bignum API directly
and caching their own BN_CTX objects. The solution is to introduce a flag
to BN_CTX_start() that allows its variables to be automatically sanitised
on release during BN_CTX_end(). This way any higher-level function (and
perhaps the application) can specify this flag in its own
BN_CTX_start()/BN_CTX_end() pair, and this will cause inner-loop functions
specifying the flag to be ignored so that sanitisation is handled only once
back out at the higher level. I will be implementing this in the near
future.
