Noteworthy changes in version 1.7.2 (2016-07-14) [C21/A1/R2]
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* Bug fixes:
- Fix setting of the ECC cofactor if parameters are specified.
- Fix memory leak in the ECC code.
- Remove debug message about unsupported getrandom syscall.
- Fix build problems related to AVX use.
- Fix bus errors on ARM for Poly1305, ChaCha20, AES, and SHA-512.
* Internal changes:
- Improved fatal error message for wrong use of gcry_md_read.
- Disallow symmetric encryption/decryption if key is not set.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.7.0 (2016-04-15) [C21/A1/R0]
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* New algorithms and modes:
- SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512, and MD2 hash algorithms.
- SHAKE128 and SHAKE256 extendable-output hash algorithms.
- ChaCha20 stream cipher.
- Poly1305 message authentication algorithm
- ChaCha20-Poly1305 Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data
mode.
- OCB mode.
- HMAC-MD2 for use by legacy applications.
* New curves for ECC:
- Curve25519.
- sec256k1.
- GOST R 34.10-2001 and GOST R 34.10-2012.
* Performance:
- Improved performance of KDF functions.
- Assembler optimized implementations of Blowfish and Serpent on
ARM.
- Assembler optimized implementation of 3DES on x86.
- Improved AES using the SSSE3 based vector permutation method by
Mike Hamburg.
- AVX/BMI is used for SHA-1 and SHA-256 on x86. This is for SHA-1
about 20% faster than SSSE3 and more than 100% faster than the
generic C implementation.
- 40% speedup for SHA-512 and 72% for SHA-1 on ARM Cortex-A8.
- 60-90% speedup for Whirlpool on x86.
- 300% speedup for RIPE MD-160.
- Up to 11 times speedup for CRC functions on x86.
* Other features:
- Improved ECDSA and FIPS 186-4 compliance.
- Support for Montgomery curves.
- gcry_cipher_set_sbox to tweak S-boxes of the gost28147 cipher
algorithm.
- gcry_mpi_ec_sub to subtract two points on a curve.
- gcry_mpi_ec_decode_point to decode an MPI into a point object.
- Emulation for broken Whirlpool code prior to 1.6.0. [from 1.6.1]
- Flag "pkcs1-raw" to enable PCKS#1 padding with a user supplied
hash part.
- Parameter "saltlen" to set a non-default salt length for RSA PSS.
- A SP800-90A conforming DRNG replaces the former X9.31 alternative
random number generator.
- Map deprecated RSA algo number to the RSA algo number for better
backward compatibility. [from 1.6.2]
- Use ciphertext blinding for Elgamal decryption [CVE-2014-3591].
See http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/radioexp/ for details.
[from 1.6.3]
- Fixed data-dependent timing variations in modular exponentiation
[related to CVE-2015-0837, Last-Level Cache Side-Channel Attacks
are Practical]. [from 1.6.3]
- Flag "no-keytest" for ECC key generation. Due to a bug in
the parser that flag will also be accepted but ignored by older
version of Libgcrypt. [from 1.6.4]
- Speed up the random number generator by requiring less extra
seeding. [from 1.6.4]
- Always verify a created RSA signature to avoid private key leaks
due to hardware failures. [from 1.6.4]
- Mitigate side-channel attack on ECDH with Weierstrass curves
[CVE-2015-7511]. See http://www.cs.tau.ac.IL/~tromer/ecdh/ for
details. [from 1.6.5]
* Internal changes:
- Moved locking out to libgpg-error.
- Support of the SYSROOT envvar in the build system.
- Refactor some code.
- The availability of a 64 bit integer type is now mandatory.
* Bug fixes:
- Fixed message digest lookup by OID (regression in 1.6.0).
- Fixed a build problem on NetBSD
- Fixed memory leaks in ECC code.
- Fixed some asm build problems and feature detection bugs.
* Interface changes relative to the 1.6.0 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
gcry_cipher_final NEW macro.
GCRY_CIPHER_MODE_CFB8 NEW constant.
GCRY_CIPHER_MODE_OCB NEW.
GCRY_CIPHER_MODE_POLY1305 NEW.
gcry_cipher_set_sbox NEW macro.
gcry_mac_get_algo NEW.
GCRY_MAC_HMAC_MD2 NEW.
GCRY_MAC_HMAC_SHA3_224 NEW.
GCRY_MAC_HMAC_SHA3_256 NEW.
GCRY_MAC_HMAC_SHA3_384 NEW.
GCRY_MAC_HMAC_SHA3_512 NEW.
GCRY_MAC_POLY1305 NEW.
GCRY_MAC_POLY1305_AES NEW.
GCRY_MAC_POLY1305_CAMELLIA NEW.
GCRY_MAC_POLY1305_SEED NEW.
GCRY_MAC_POLY1305_SERPENT NEW.
GCRY_MAC_POLY1305_TWOFISH NEW.
gcry_md_extract NEW.
GCRY_MD_FLAG_BUGEMU1 NEW [from 1.6.1].
GCRY_MD_GOSTR3411_CP NEW.
GCRY_MD_SHA3_224 NEW.
GCRY_MD_SHA3_256 NEW.
GCRY_MD_SHA3_384 NEW.
GCRY_MD_SHA3_512 NEW.
GCRY_MD_SHAKE128 NEW.
GCRY_MD_SHAKE256 NEW.
gcry_mpi_ec_decode_point NEW.
gcry_mpi_ec_sub NEW.
GCRY_PK_EDDSA NEW constant.
GCRYCTL_GET_TAGLEN NEW.
GCRYCTL_SET_SBOX NEW.
GCRYCTL_SET_TAGLEN NEW.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.6.4 (2015-09-08) [C20/A0/R4]
------------------------------------------------
* Speed up the random number generator by requiring less extra
seeding.
* New flag "no-keytest" for ECC key generation. Due to a bug in the
parser that flag will also be accepted but ignored by older version
of Libgcrypt.
* Always verify a created RSA signature to avoid private key leaks
due to hardware failures.
* Fix alignment bug in the AESNI code on Windows > 7.
* Support FreeBSD 10 and later.
* Other minor bug fixes.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.6.2 (2014-08-21) [C20/A0/R2]
------------------------------------------------
* Map deprecated RSA algo number to the RSA algo number for better
backward compatibility.
* Support a 0x40 compression prefix for EdDSA.
* Improve ARM hardware feature detection and building.
* Fix powerpc-apple-darwin detection
* Fix building for the x32 ABI platform.
* Support building using the latest mingw-w64 toolchain.
* Fix some possible NULL deref bugs.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.6.1 (2014-01-29)
------------------------------------------------
* Added emulation for broken Whirlpool code prior to 1.6.0.
* Improved performance of KDF functions.
* Improved ECDSA compliance.
* Fixed locking for Windows and non-ELF Pthread systems (regression
in 1.6.0)
* Fixed message digest lookup by OID (regression in 1.6.0).
* Fixed a build problem on NetBSD.
* Fixed memory leaks in ECC code.
* Fixed some asm build problems and feature detection bugs.
* Interface changes relative to the 1.6.0 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
GCRY_MD_FLAG_BUGEMU1 NEW (minor API change).
Noteworthy changes in version 1.6.0 (2013-12-16)
------------------------------------------------
* Removed the long deprecated gcry_ac interface. Thus Libgcrypt is
not anymore ABI compatible to previous versions if they used the ac
interface.
* Removed the module register subsystem.
* The deprecated message digest debug macros have been removed. Use
gcry_md_debug instead.
* Removed deprecated control codes.
* Improved performance of most cipher algorithms as well as for the
SHA family of hash functions.
* Added support for the IDEA cipher algorithm.
* Added support for the Salsa20 and reduced Salsa20/12 stream ciphers.
* Added limited support for the GOST 28147-89 cipher algorithm.
* Added support for the GOST R 34.11-94 and R 34.11-2012 (Stribog)
hash algorithms.
* Added a random number generator to directly use the system's RNG.
Also added an interface to prefer the use of a specified RNG.
* Added support for the SCRYPT algorithm.
* Mitigated the Yarom/Falkner flush+reload side-channel attack on RSA
secret keys. See <http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/448> [CVE-2013-4242].
* Added support for Deterministic DSA as per RFC-6969.
* Added support for curve Ed25519.
* Added a scatter gather hash convenience function.
* Added several MPI amd SEXP helper functions.
* Added support for negative numbers to gcry_mpi_print,
gcry_mpi_aprint and gcry_mpi_scan.
* The algorithm ids GCRY_PK_ECDSA and GCRY_PK_ECDH are now
deprecated. Use GCRY_PK_ECC if you need an algorithm id.
* Changed gcry_pk_genkey for "ecc" to only include the curve name and
not the parameters. The flag "param" may be used to revert this.
* Added a feature to globally disable selected hardware features.
* Added debug helper functions.
XXX: lots of patches without comments, and not upstreamed it seems.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.5.2 (2013-04-18)
------------------------------------------------
* Added support for IDEA.
* Made the Padlock code work again (regression since 1.5.0).
* Fixed alignment problems for Serpent.
* Fixed two bugs in ECC computations.
* New function gcry_kdf_derive implementing OpenPGP S2K algorithms
and PBKDF2.
* Support for WindowsCE.
* Support for ECDH.
* Support for OAEP and PSS methods as described by RFC-3447.
* Fixed PKCS v1.5 code to always return the leading zero.
* New format specifiers "%M" and "%u" for gcry_sexp_build.
* Support opaque MPIs with "%m" and "%M" in gcry_sexp_build.
* New functions gcry_pk_get_curve and gcry_pk_get_param to map ECC
parameters to a curve name and to retrieve parameter values.
* gcry_mpi_cmp applied to opaque values has a defined semantic now.
* Uses the Intel AES-NI instructions if available.
* The use of the deprecated Alternative Public Key Interface
(gcry_ac_*) will now print compile time warnings.
* The module register subsystem has been deprecated. This subsystem
is not flexible enough and would always require ABI changes to
extend the internal interfaces. It will eventually be removed.
Please contact us on the gcrypt-devel mailing list to discuss
whether you really need this feature or how it can be replaced by
an internal plugin mechanism.
* CTR mode may now be used with data chunks of arbitrary length.
* Publish GCRY_MODULE_ID_USER and GCRY_MODULE_ID_USER_LAST constants.
This functionality has been in Libgcrypt since 1.3.0.
* MD5 may now be used in non-enforced fips mode.
* Fixed HMAC for SHA-384 and SHA-512 with keys longer than 64 bytes.
* In fips mode, RSA keys are now generated using the X9.31 algorithm
and DSA keys using the FIPS 186-2 algorithm.
* The transient-key flag is now also supported for DSA key
generation. DSA domain parameters may be given as well.
is incorrect because:
1) _gcry_rngfips_deinit_external_test() is void function
2) the calling function, random, is declared void
The unpatched code will not compile with Sun compiler.
* Try to auto-initialize Libgcrypt to minimize the effect of
applications not doing that correctly. This is not a perfect
solution but given that many applicationion would totally fail
without such a hack, we try to help at least with the most common
cases. Folks, please read the manual to learn how to properly
initialize Libgcrypt!
* Auto-initialize the secure memory to 32k instead of aborting the
process.
* Log fatal errors via syslog.
* Changed the name and the semantics of the fips mode config file.
* Add convenience macro gcry_fips_mode_active.
* More self-tests.
* Documentation cleanups.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.4.1 (2008-04-25)
------------------------------------------------
* Fixed a bug introduced by 1.3.1 which led to the comsumption of far
too much entropy for the intial seeding.
* Improved AES performance for CFB and CBC modes.
* Removed build problems for the Padlock support.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.4.0 (2007-12-10)
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* New configure option --disable-padlock-support which is mostly
useful in case of build problems.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.3.2 (2007-12-03)
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* The visibility attribute is now used if supported by the toolchain.
* The ACE engine of VIA processors is now used for AES-128.
* The ASN.1 DER template for SHA-224 has been fixed.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.3.1 (2007-10-26)
------------------------------------------------
* The entire library is now under the LGPL. The helper programs and
the manual are under the GPL. Kudos to Peter Gutmann for giving
permissions to relicense the rndw32 and rndunix modules.
* The Camellia cipher is now under the LGPL and included by default.
* Fixed a bug in the detection of symbol prefixes which inhibited the
build of optimzied assembler code on certain systems.
* Updated the entropy gatherer for W32.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.3.0 (2007-05-04)
------------------------------------------------
* Changed the way the RNG gets initialized. This allows to keep it
uninitialized as long as no random numbers are used. To override
this, the new macro gcry_fast_random_poll may be used. It is in
general a good idea to spread this macro into the application code
to make sure that these polls happen often enough.
* Made the RNG immune against fork without exec.
* Reading and writing the random seed file is now protected by a
fcntl style file lock on systems that provide this function.
* Support for SHA-224 and HMAC using SHA-384 and SHA-512.
* Support for the SEED cipher.
* Support for the Camellia cipher. Note that Camellia is disabled by
default, and that enabling it changes the license of libgcrypt from
LGPL to GPL.
* Support for OFB encryption mode.
* gcry_mpi_rshift does not anymore truncate the shift count.
* Reserved algorithm ranges for use by applications.
* Support for DSA2.
* The new function gcry_md_debug should be used instead of the
gcry_md_start_debug and gcry_md_stop_debug macros.
* New configure option --enable-random-daemon to support a system
wide random daemon. The daemon code is experimental and not yet
very well working. It will eventually allow to keep a global
random pool for the sake of short living processes.
* Non executable stack support is now used by default on systems
supporting it.
* Support for Microsoft Windows.
* Assembler support for the AMD64 architecture.
* New configure option --enable-mpi-path for optimized builds.
* Experimental support for ECDSA; should only be used for testing.
* New control code GCRYCTL_PRINT_CONFIG to print the build
configuration.
* Minor changes to some function declarations. Buffer arguments are
now typed as void pointer. This should not affect any compilation.
Fixed two bugs in return values and clarified documentation.
* Interface changes relative to the 1.2.0 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
gcry_fast_random_poll NEW
gcry_md_debug NEW
gcry_sexp_nth_string NEW
GCRY_MD_SHA224 NEW
GCRY_PK_USAGE_CERT NEW
GCRY_PK_USAGE_AUTH NEW
GCRY_PK_USAGE_UNKN NEW
GCRY_PK_ECDSA NEW
GCRY_CIPHER_SEED NEW
GCRY_CIPHER_CAMELLIA128 NEW
GCRY_CIPHER_CAMELLIA192 NEW
GCRY_CIPHER_CAMELLIA256 NEW
GCRYCTL_FAKED_RANDOM_P NEW
GCRYCTL_PRINT_CONFIG NEW
GCRYCTL_SET_RNDEGD_SOCKET NEW.
gcry_mpi_scan CHANGED: Argument BUFFER is now void*.
gcry_pk_algo_name CHANGED: Returns "?" instead of NULL.
gcry_cipher_algo_name CHANGED: Returns "?" instead of "".
gcry_pk_spec_t CHANGED: Element ALIASES is now const ptr.
gcry_md_write_t CHANGED: Argument BUF is now a const void*.
gcry_md_ctl CHANGED: Argument BUFFER is now void*.
gcry_cipher_encrypt CHANGED: Arguments IN and OUT are now void*.
gcry_cipher_decrypt CHANGED: Arguments IN and OUT are now void*.
gcry_sexp_sprint CHANGED: Argument BUFFER is now void*.
gcry_create_nonce CHANGED: Argument BUFFER is now void*.
gcry_randomize CHANGED: Argument BUFFER is now void*.
gcry_cipher_register CHANGED: Argument ALGORITHM_ID is now int*.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.2.4 (2007-02-01)
------------------------------------------------
* Fixed a bug in the memory allocator which could have been the
reason for some of non-duplicable bugs.
* Other minor bug fixes.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.2.2 (2005-10-05}
------------------------------------------------
* Made the RNG immune against fork without exec.
* Minor changes to some function declarations. Buffer arguments are
now typed as void pointer. This should not affect any compilation.
* A bug in the definition of gcry_cipher_register has been fixed.
* Interface changes relative to the 1.2.1 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
gcry_cipher_encrypt CHANGED: Arguments IN and OUT are now void*.
gcry_cipher_decrypt CHANGED: Arguments IN and OUT are now void*.
gcry_create_nonce CHANGED: Argument BUFFER is now void*.
gcry_md_ctl CHANGED: Argument BUFFER is now void*.
gcry_sexp_sprint CHANGED: Argument BUFFER is now void*.
gcry_mpi_scan CHANGED: Argument BUFFER is now void*.
gcry_cipher_register CHANGED: Argument ALGORITHM_ID is now int*.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
when other source files depend on fd_set being defined in a local header.
(Required on Interix, which does not expose <sys/select.h>/<sys/time.h>
automagically via other system headers as some OS's do by default.)
* Portability fixes, memory allocation fixes and other minor things.
* Support to build as a W32 static library.
* Changed the way the RNG gets initialized. This allows to keep it
uninitialized as long as no random numbers are used. To override
this, the new macro gcry_fast_random_poll may be used. It is in
general a good idea to spread this macro into the application code
to make sure that these polls happen often enough.
If __sparcv8 is defined, use the SPARC v8 version of udiv_qrnnd. Without
this change, udiv_qrnnd will not be defined using the SPARC v8 udiv
instruction, and the default SPARC v7 case of defining it to be the native
__gmpn_udiv_qrnnd will be used, but this does not exist on SPARC v8, so
at link time, the user will get an error about _gmpn_udiv_qrnnd being
undefined. gcc defines __sparcv8.
From PR pkg/26815.
file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are open. This avoids multiple warnings issued
under NetBSD about running set[ug]id programs with those descriptors closed.
Fixes PR pkg/26079; although it talks about gaim, the problem is here, in
libgcrypt. Bump PKGREVISION to 1.
