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diff --git a/doc/news.rst b/doc/news.rst index 2a9fe53a6..0087782d3 100644 --- a/doc/news.rst +++ b/doc/news.rst @@ -9,6 +9,17 @@ Version 1.11.30, Not Yet Released a MAC failure. Records like this are used by OpenSSL in TLS 1.0 connections in order to randomize the IV. +* A bug in GCM caused incorrect results if the 32-bit counter field + overflowed. With a 96-bit nonce, this could only occur if 2**32 + 128-bit blocks were encrypted. This actually exceeds the maximum + allowable length of a GCM plaintext. + + However if a GCM nonce of any other size is used, the bug triggers + randomly, with increasing probability on longer messages. For + instance when encrypting 256 MiB of data under a random 128 bit + nonce, an incorrect result would be produced about 1/256 of the + time. With 1 MiB texts, the probability of error reduced to 1/65536. + * The Transform and Keyed_Transform interfaces has been removed. The two concrete implementations of these interfaces were Cipher_Mode and the Compressor_tkk. The Cipher_Mode interface remains unchanged @@ -37,7 +48,7 @@ Version 1.11.30, Not Yet Released * X509_CRL previously had an option to cause it to ignore unknown critical extensions. This has been removed. - + * Added support for ChaCha stream cipher with 12 rounds. * Add ECGDSA signature algorithm (GH #479) |