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authorJack Lloyd <[email protected]>2017-12-20 09:22:53 -0500
committerJack Lloyd <[email protected]>2017-12-20 09:22:53 -0500
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Note deprecation of X509_Certificate info access via subject_info
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- The TLS constructors taking `std::function` for callbacks. Instead
use the TLS::Callbacks interface.
+- Using ``X509_Certificate::subject_info`` and ``issuer_info`` to access any
+ information that is not included in the DN or subject alternative name. Prefer
+ using the specific accessor functions for other data, eg instead of
+ ``cert.subject_info("X509.Certificate.serial")`` use ``cert.serial_number()``.
+
- The Buffered_Computation base class. In a future release the class will be
removed, and all of member functions instead declared directly on
MessageAuthenticationCode and HashFunction. So this only affects you if you