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OpenSSL 1.0.0 has been released - lots of new stuff

• alecco 17y ago
  It doesn't look good when they place the most important changes all the way down, IMHO. *) Extensive audit of libcrypto with DEBUG_UNUSED. Fix many cases where return value is ignored. NB. The functions RAND_add(), RAND_seed(), BIO_set_cipher() and some obscure PEM functions were changed so they can now return an error. The RAND changes required a change to the RAND_METHOD structure. [Steve Henson] *) New macro __owur for "OpenSSL Warn Unused Result". This makes use of a gcc attribute to warn if the result of a function is ignored. This is enable if DEBUG_UNUSED is set. Add to several functions in evp.h whose return value is often ignored. [Steve Henson]
  • chrisbolt 17y ago
    That's actually a change in 1.1.0, which appears to be unreleased.
    • alecco 17y ago
      Oops. Still my point of placing this right at the bottom of the update list is valid. Perhaps more as it's not a major release change.
• andrewcooke 17y ago
  this brought back memories. i just went looking and can't find much in the way of history related to the "fork" from ssleay. i was developing with ssleay at the time and from what i remmeber, it wasn't that pleasant. but now it's difficult to reconstruct what happened - did anyone talk to eric young or tim hudson? how did the timing fit with rsa and/or the threat of prosecution in australia?