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authorJack Lloyd <[email protected]>2017-04-04 16:35:46 -0400
committerJack Lloyd <[email protected]>2017-04-04 16:35:46 -0400
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Update release notes
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@@ -4,18 +4,24 @@ Release Notes
Version 2.1.0, Not Yet Released
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-* Fix incorrect truncation in Bcrypt. Passwords in length between 56
- and 72 characters were truncated at 56 characters. Found and
- reported by Solar Designer. (CVE-2017-7252)
+* Fix incorrect truncation in Bcrypt. Passwords in length between 56 and 72
+ characters were truncated at 56 characters. Found and reported by Solar Designer.
+ (CVE-2017-7252) (GH #938)
* Correct minimum work factor for Bcrypt password hashes. All other
- implementations require the work factor be at least 4. Previously
- Botan simply required it be greater than zero.
+ implementations require the work factor be at least 4. Previously Botan simply
+ required it be greater than zero. (GH #938)
+
+* Converge on a single side channel silent EC blinded multiply algorithm.
+ Uses Montgomery ladder with order/2 bits scalar blinding and point randomization
+ now by default. (GH #893)
* Support a 0-length IV in ChaCha stream cipher. Such an IV is treated
identically to an 8-byte IV of all zeros.
-* New C89 API interfaces for testing key validity. (GH #944)
+* Add new interfaces to the C API including multiple precision integers, key
+ validity tests, extracting algorithm specific key paramters (eg the modulus
+ and public exponent from RSA public keys). GH #899 #944 #946 #961 #964
* The PKCS11 module did not require any external dependencies, so it
has been enabled by default. The ``-with-pkcs11`` and ``--without-pkcs11``
@@ -56,7 +62,12 @@ Version 2.1.0, Not Yet Released
* Add command line util ``timing_test`` which enables running
timing-based side channel analysis of TLS CBC decryption, ECC scalar
multiplies, OAEP decoding, and other operations which are prone to
- providing an oracle via side channel.
+ providing an oracle via side channel. This replaces the standalone
+ timing test suite added in 1.11.34, which has been removed.
+
+* Various cleanups and refactorings (GH #965)
+
+* Add wrapper of C++14 make_unique (GH #974)
* Fix pkg-config output when --build-dir was used (GH #936)
@@ -68,21 +79,33 @@ Version 2.1.0, Not Yet Released
* Avoid a GCC warning that triggered on the public key types (GH #849)
* Fix various warnings flagged by pylint and pyflakes linters in
- configure.py and botan.py (GH #832 #836 #839)
-
+ configure.py and botan.py (GH #832 #836 #839 #962 #975)
+
+* Improve support for OpenBSD including using getentropy (GH #954)
+ for PRNG seeding, and arc4random to access system RNG (GH #953)
+
+* Add ability to build through CMake. As of now this is only supported
+ for development rather than production builds. (GH #967)
+
* Rename python wrapper to botan2.py (GH #847)
* Change name constraint test to use a fixed reference time. Test certs have expired.
-* Increase miller-rabin iterations for DSA primes (FIPS-186-4) (GH #881)
+* Increase Miller-Rabin iterations for DSA primes to match FIPS 186-4. (GH #881)
-* Fix possible ISO 9796-2 padding side channel and add a length check (GH #891)
+* Fix possible ISO 9796-2 padding side channel, and add a missing length check (GH #891)
-* In CLI, if system RNG is available prefer it
+* In command line utility, prefer the system RNG if it is available.
-* Converge on a single side channel silent EC blinded multiply algorithm.
- Uses montgomery ladder with order/2 bits scalar blinding and point randomization
- now by default. (GH #893)
+Version 1.10.16, 2017-04-04
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+* Fix a bug in X509 DN string comparisons that could result in out of bound
+ reads. This could result in information leakage, denial of service, or
+ potentially incorrect certificate validation results. (CVE-2017-2801)
+
+* Avoid throwing during a destructor since this is undefined in C++11
+ and rarely a good idea. (GH #930)
Version 1.10.15, 2017-01-12
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