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authorJack Lloyd <[email protected]>2018-12-19 09:05:07 -0500
committerJack Lloyd <[email protected]>2018-12-19 09:05:07 -0500
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Version 2.9.0, Not Yet Released
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+* CVE-2018-20187 Address a side channel during ECC key generation,
+ which used an unblinded Montgomery ladder. As a result, a timing
+ attack can reveal information about the high bits of the secret key.
+
* Fix bugs in TLS which caused negotiation failures when the client
used an unknown signature algorithm or version (GH #1711 #1709 #1708)