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authorNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>2018-12-01 06:04:45 +0100
committerNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>2018-12-01 06:31:24 +0100
commit4353ea025ae032887f3e8cf5aadace25662c6b35 (patch)
tree55f57bdae35d444c9390e13cdace1383532432c0 /NEWS
parentc9f57eac2a1cb2675da6ac1d9972609faf6c1ea0 (diff)
downloadgnutls-4353ea025ae032887f3e8cf5aadace25662c6b35.tar.gz
released 3.4.1gnutls_3_6_5
Signed-off-by: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>
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@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ Copyright (C) 2000-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 2013-2017 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
See the end for copying conditions.
-* Version 3.6.5 (unreleased)
+* Version 3.6.5 (released 2018-12-01)
** libgnutls: Provide the option of transparent re-handshake/reauthentication
- when the GNUTLS_AUTO_REAUTH flag is specified in gnutls_init().
+ when the GNUTLS_AUTO_REAUTH flag is specified in gnutls_init() (#571).
** libgnutls: Added support for TLS 1.3 zero round-trip (0-RTT) mode (#127)
@@ -18,9 +18,21 @@ See the end for copying conditions.
servers which do not support TLS1.3 will negotiate TLS1.2 which will be
rejected by the client as disabled (#621).
+** libgnutls: Change RSA decryption to use a new side-channel silent function.
+ This addresses a security issue where memory access patterns as well as timing
+ on the underlying Nettle rsa-decrypt function could lead to new Bleichenbacher
+ attacks. Side-channel resistant code is slower due to the need to mask
+ access and timings. When used in TLS the new functions cause RSA based
+ handshakes to be between 13% and 28% slower on average (Numbers are indicative,
+ the tests where performed on a relatively modern Intel CPU, results vary
+ depending on the CPU and architecture used). This change makes nettle 3.4.1
+ the minimum requirement of gnutls (#630). [CVSS: medium]
+
** libgnutls: gnutls_priority_init() and friends, allow the CTYPE-OPENPGP keyword
in the priority string. It is only accepted as legacy option and is ignored.
+** libgnutls: Added support for EdDSA under PKCS#11 (#417)
+
** libgnutls: Added support for AES-CFB8 cipher (#357)
** libgnutls: Added support for AES-CMAC MAC (#351)
@@ -41,15 +53,6 @@ See the end for copying conditions.
** certtool: Add parameter --no-text that prevents certtool from outputting
text before PEM-encoded private key, public key, certificate, CRL or CSR.
-** libgnutls: Change RSA decryption to use a new side-channel silent function.
- This addresses a security issue where memory access patterns as well as timing
- on the underlying Nettle rsa-decrypt function could lead to new Bleichenbacher
- attacks. Side-channel resistant code is slower due to the need to mask
- access and timings. When used in TLS the new functions cause RSA based
- handshakes to be between 13% and 28% slower on average (Numbers are indicative,
- the tests where performed on a relatively modern Intel CPU, results vary
- depending on the CPU and architecture used).
-
** API and ABI modifications:
GNUTLS_AUTO_REAUTH: Added
GNUTLS_CIPHER_AES_128_CFB8: Added