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| author | Pauli <paul.dale@oracle.com> | 2020-07-22 12:55:31 +1000 |
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| committer | Pauli <paul.dale@oracle.com> | 2020-08-07 14:16:47 +1000 |
| commit | 7d615e2178fbffa53f05a67f68e5741374340308 (patch) | |
| tree | 8e5cdbb8c39e24727e64af790831980b2a5d9e6a /CHANGES.md | |
| parent | 4df0d37ff6cc399b93f9ef2524d087c2d67d41b5 (diff) | |
rand_drbg: remove RAND_DRBG.
The RAND_DRBG API did not fit well into the new provider concept as
implemented by EVP_RAND and EVP_RAND_CTX. The main reason is that the
RAND_DRBG API is a mixture of 'front end' and 'back end' API calls
and some of its API calls are rather low-level. This holds in particular
for the callback mechanism (RAND_DRBG_set_callbacks()) and the RAND_DRBG
type changing mechanism (RAND_DRBG_set()).
Adding a compatibility layer to continue supporting the RAND_DRBG API as
a legacy API for a regular deprecation period turned out to come at the
price of complicating the new provider API unnecessarily. Since the
RAND_DRBG API exists only since version 1.1.1, it was decided by the OMC
to drop it entirely.
Other related changes:
Use RNG instead of DRBG in EVP_RAND documentation. The documentation was
using DRBG in places where it should have been RNG or CSRNG.
Move the RAND_DRBG(7) documentation to EVP_RAND(7).
Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12509)
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diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md index 75ecfc22f4..3ecdd5d99b 100644 --- a/CHANGES.md +++ b/CHANGES.md @@ -23,6 +23,22 @@ OpenSSL 3.0 ### Changes between 1.1.1 and 3.0 [xx XXX xxxx] + * Remove the RAND_DRBG API + + The RAND_DRBG API did not fit well into the new provider concept as + implemented by EVP_RAND and EVP_RAND_CTX. The main reason is that the + RAND_DRBG API is a mixture of 'front end' and 'back end' API calls + and some of its API calls are rather low-level. This holds in particular + for the callback mechanism (RAND_DRBG_set_callbacks()). + + Adding a compatibility layer to continue supporting the RAND_DRBG API as + a legacy API for a regular deprecation period turned out to come at the + price of complicating the new provider API unnecessarily. Since the + RAND_DRBG API exists only since version 1.1.1, it was decided by the OMC + to drop it entirely. + + *Paul Dale and Matthias St. Pierre* + * Allow SSL_set1_host() and SSL_add1_host() to take IP literal addresses as well as actual hostnames. |