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authorJack Lloyd <[email protected]>2017-12-05 12:44:49 -0500
committerJack Lloyd <[email protected]>2017-12-05 12:44:49 -0500
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@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ Version 2.4.0, Not Yet Released
* Add support for AES key wrapping with padding, as specified in RFC 5649 and
NIST SP 800-38F (GH #1301)
+* XMSS signatures now are multithreaded for improved performance (GH #1267)
+
* Increase the maximum HMAC key length from 512 bytes to 4096 bytes. This allows
using a DH key exchange with a group greater than 4096 bits. (GH #1316)
@@ -69,6 +71,9 @@ Version 2.4.0, Not Yet Released
character. In addition, UCS-4 strings are now supported.
(GH #1113 #1250 #1287 #1289)
+* It is now possible to create an uninitialized X509_Certificate object. Such an
+ object will throw if any attempt to access its members is made. (GH #1335)
+
* In BER decoder, avoid unbounded stack recursion when parsing nested indefinite
length values. Now at most 16 nested indefinite length values are accepted,
anything deeper resulting in a decoding error. (GH #1304 OSS-Fuzz 4353).
@@ -87,6 +92,13 @@ Version 2.4.0, Not Yet Released
decryption of TLS CBC ciphertexts, and improves performance especially when
using AES hardware support. (GH #1269)
+* Add callbacks to make it possible for an application using TLS to provide
+ custom implementations of signature schemes, eg when offloading the
+ computations to another device. (GH #1332)
+
+* Use a direct calculation for calender computations instead of relying on
+ non-portable operating system interfaces. (GH #1336)
+
* Fix a bug in the amalgamation generation which could cause build failures on
some systems including macOS. (GH #1264 #1265)
@@ -148,7 +160,7 @@ Version 2.4.0, Not Yet Released
* Fixes for CMake build (GH #1251)
-* Add multithreading support for XMSS
+* Avoid some signed overflow warnings (GH #1220 #1245)
Version 2.3.0, 2017-10-02
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