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@@ -4,6 +4,24 @@ Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5 [xx XXX 1999] + *) Add a bunch of functions that should simplify the creation of + X509_NAME structures. Now you should be able to do: + X509_NAME_add_entry_by_txt(nm, "CN", MBSTRING_ASC, "Steve", -1, -1, 0); + and have it automatically work out the correct field type and fill in + the structures. The more adventurous can try: + X509_NAME_add_entry_by_txt(nm, field, MBSTRING_UTF8, str, -1, -1, 0); + and it will (hopefully) work out the correct multibyte encoding. + [Steve Henson] + + *) Change the 'req' utility to use the new field handling and multibyte + copy routines. Before the DN field creation was handled in an ad hoc + way in req, ca, and x509 which was rather broken and didn't support + BMPStrings or UTF8Strings. Since some software doesn't implement + BMPStrings or UTF8Strings yet, they can be enabled using the config file + using the dirstring_type option. See the new comment in the default + openssl.cnf for more info. + [Steve Henson] + *) Make crypto/rand/md_rand.c more robust: - Assure unique random numbers after fork(). - Make sure that concurrent threads access the global counter and |