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authorBernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>2019-07-10 15:52:36 +0200
committerBernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>2019-07-24 14:59:52 +0200
commitddd16c2fe988ed9fdd5118c2f2617745438fd675 (patch)
tree08eb4554b256062b40bbc9885edf2153c2b87fcf /CHANGES
parent8e747338593f3bafe9798226cddf4edf36bc2de9 (diff)
Change DH parameters to generate the order q subgroup instead of 2q
This avoids leaking bit 0 of the private key. Backport-of: #9363 Reviewed-by: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9435)
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Changes between 1.1.1c and 1.1.1d [xx XXX xxxx]
+ *) Changed DH parameters to generate the order q subgroup instead of 2q.
+ Previously generated DH parameters are still accepted by DH_check
+ but DH_generate_key works around that by clearing bit 0 of the
+ private key for those. This avoids leaking bit 0 of the private key.
+ [Bernd Edlinger]
+
*) Revert the DEVRANDOM_WAIT feature for Linux systems
The DEVRANDOM_WAIT feature added a select() call to wait for the