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@@ -4,20 +4,21 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1999</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>1999</year><year>2016</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
- The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
- Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
- compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
- Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
- retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
-
- Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
- basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
- the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
- under the License.
+ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
</legalnotice>
@@ -30,6 +31,149 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Crypto application.</p>
+<section><title>Crypto 3.7</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Refactor <c>crypto</c> to use the EVP interface of
+ OpenSSL, which is the recommended interface that also
+ enables access to hardware acceleration for some
+ operations.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12217</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add support for 192-bit keys for the <c>aes_cbc</c>
+ cipher.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13206 Aux Id: pr 832 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add support for 192-bit keys for <c>aes_ecb</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13207 Aux Id: pr829 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Deprecate the function <c>crypto:rand_bytes</c> and make
+ sure that <c>crypto:strong_rand_bytes</c> is used in all
+ places that are cryptographically significant.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13214</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Enable AES-GCM encryption/decryption to change the tag
+ length between 1 to 16 bytes.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13483 Aux Id: PR-998 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Crypto 3.6.3</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix bug for <c>aes_ecb</c> block crypto when data is
+ larger than 16 bytes.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13249</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Improve portability of ECC tests in Crypto and SSL for
+ "exotic" OpenSSL versions.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13311</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Crypto 3.6.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Small documentation fixes</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13017</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Crypto 3.6.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Make <c>crypto:ec_curves/0</c> return empty list if
+ elliptic curve is not supported at all.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12944</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Crypto 3.6</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Enhance crypto:generate_key to calculate ECC public keys
+ from private key.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12394</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix bug in <c>crypto:generate_key</c> for <c>ecdh</c>
+ that could cause VM crash for faulty input.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12733</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Use the EVP API for AES-CBC crypto to enables the use of
+ hardware acceleration for AES-CBC crypto on newer Intel
+ CPUs (AES-NI), among other platforms.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12380</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add AES ECB block encryption.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12403</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Crypto 3.5</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
@@ -671,7 +815,7 @@
also been extended. </item><item> The <c>configure</c>
scripts of <c>erl_interface</c> and <c>odbc</c> now
search for thread libraries and thread library quirks the
- same way as <c>erts</c> do. </item><item> The
+ same way as ERTS do. </item><item> The
<c>configure</c> script of the <c>odbc</c> application
now also looks for odbc libraries in <c>lib64</c> and
<c>lib/64</c> directories when building on a 64-bit