From 53010ea150544a41feb1a62d26b4d321180512e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Dr. Matthias St. Pierre" Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 02:02:22 +0100 Subject: Document new random generator in NEWS and CHANGES Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5344) --- CHANGES | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ NEWS | 1 + 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index b94b8e9726..5c0c2ea407 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -29,6 +29,25 @@ TODO(TLS1.3): Remove the above note before final release [Matt Caswell] + *) Grand redesign of the OpenSSL random generator + + The default RAND method now utilizes an AES-CTR DRBG according to + NIST standard SP 800-90Ar1. The new random generator is essentially + a port of the default random generator from the OpenSSL FIPS 2.0 + object module. It is a hybrid deterministic random bit generator + using an AES-CTR bit stream and which seeds and reseeds itself + automatically using trusted system entropy sources. + + Some of its new features are: + o Support for multiple DRBG instances with seed chaining. + o Add a public DRBG instance for the default RAND method. + o Add a dedicated DRBG instance for generating long term private keys. + o Make the DRBG instances fork-safe. + o Keep all global DRBG instances on the secure heap if it is enabled. + o Add a DRBG instance to every SSL instance for lock free operation + and to increase unpredictability. + [Paul Dale, Benjamin Kaduk, Kurt Roeckx, Rich Salz, Matthias St. Pierre] + *) Changed Configure so it only says what it does and doesn't dump so much data. Instead, ./configdata.pm should be used as a script to display all sorts of configuration data. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7a15e8653f..909ffed7cd 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ o Add SHA3 o Rewrite of devcrypto engine o Add support for SipHash + o Grand redesign of the OpenSSL random generator Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0g and OpenSSL 1.1.0h [under development] -- cgit v1.2.1