On macOS, crypto would crash if observer had been started before crypto. On the beta for macOS 10.13 (High Sierra), crypto would crash. Both of those bugs have been fixed.

Own Id: OTP-14499 Aux Id: ERL-251 ERL-439

Extend crypto:sign, crypto:verify, public_key:sign and public_key:verify with:

* support for RSASSA-PS padding for signatures and for saltlength setting
* X9.31 RSA padding.
* sha, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512 for dss signatures as mentioned in NIST SP 800-57 Part 1.
* ripemd160 to be used for rsa signatures.

This is a manual merge of half of the pull request 838 by potatosalad from Sept 2015.

Own Id: OTP-13704 Aux Id: PR838

A new tuple in crypto:supports/0 reports supported MAC algorithms.

Own Id: OTP-14504

LibreSSL can now be used by the modernized crypto app.

Own Id: OTP-14247

Add compile option -compile(no_native) in modules with on_load directive which is not yet supported by HiPE.

Own Id: OTP-14316 Aux Id: PR-1390

Fix a bug in aes cfb128 function introduced by the bug fix in GitHub pull request #1393.

Own Id: OTP-14435 Aux Id: PR-1462, PR-1393, OTP-14313

Add basic support for CMAC

Own Id: OTP-13779 Aux Id: ERL-82 PR-1138

Removed functions deprecated in crypto-3.0 first released in OTP-R16B01

*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

Own Id: OTP-13873

The crypto application now supports OpenSSL 1.1.

Own Id: OTP-13900

Allow Erlang/OTP to use OpenSSL in FIPS-140 mode, in order to satisfy specific security requirements (mostly by different parts of the US federal government).

See the new crypto users guide "FIPS mode" chapter about building and using the FIPS support which is disabled by default.

(Thanks to dszoboszlay and legoscia)

Own Id: OTP-13921 Aux Id: PR-1180

Crypto chacha20-poly1305 as in RFC 7539 enabled for OpenSSL >= 1.1.

Thanks to mururu.

Own Id: OTP-14092 Aux Id: PR-1291

RSA key generation added to crypto:generate_key/2. Thanks to wiml.

An interface is also added to public_key:generate_key/1.

Own Id: OTP-14140 Aux Id: ERL-165, PR-1299

Raised minimum requirement for OpenSSL version to OpenSSL-0.9.8.c although we recommend a much higher version, that is a version that is still maintained officially by the OpenSSL project. Note that using such an old version may restrict the crypto algorithms supported.

*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

Own Id: OTP-14171

Deprecate crypto:rand_uniform/2 as it is not cryptographically strong

Own Id: OTP-14274

The Crypto application now supports generation of cryptographically strong random numbers (floats < 1.0 and integer arbitrary ranges) as a plugin to the 'rand' module.

Own Id: OTP-14317 Aux Id: PR-1372

This replaces the hard coded test values for AES, CMAC and GCM ciphers with the full validation set from NIST's CAVP program.

Own Id: OTP-14436 Aux Id: PR-1396

Fix a bug with AES CFB 128 for 192 and 256 bit keys. Thanks to kellymclaughlin !

Own Id: OTP-14313 Aux Id: PR-1393

The implementation of the key exchange algorithms diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha* are optimized, up to a factor of 11 for the slowest ( = biggest and safest) group size.

Own Id: OTP-14169 Aux Id: seq-13261

The crypto application has been fixed to not use RC2 against OpenSSL built with RC2 disabled.

Own Id: OTP-13895 Aux Id: PR-1163

The crypto application has been fixed to not use RC4 against OpenSSL built with RC4 disabled.

Own Id: OTP-13896 Aux Id: PR-1169

To ease troubleshooting, erlang:load_nif/2 now includes the return value from a failed call to load/reload/upgrade in the text part of the error tuple. The crypto NIF makes use of this feature by returning the source line where/if the initialization fails.

Own Id: OTP-13951

Crypto has been fixed to work against OpenSSL versions with disabled DES ciphers. Correct spelling of cipher algorithm 'des3_cfb' has been introduced; the previous misspeling still works.

Own Id: OTP-13783 Aux Id: ERL-203

The size of an internal array in crypto has been fixed to not segfault when having all possible ciphers. Bug fix by Duncan Overbruck.

Own Id: OTP-13789 Aux Id: PR-1140

Refactor crypto to use the EVP interface of OpenSSL, which is the recommended interface that also enables access to hardware acceleration for some operations.

Own Id: OTP-12217

Add support for 192-bit keys for the aes_cbc cipher.

Own Id: OTP-13206 Aux Id: pr 832

Add support for 192-bit keys for aes_ecb.

Own Id: OTP-13207 Aux Id: pr829

Deprecate the function crypto:rand_bytes and make sure that crypto:strong_rand_bytes is used in all places that are cryptographically significant.

Own Id: OTP-13214

Enable AES-GCM encryption/decryption to change the tag length between 1 to 16 bytes.

Own Id: OTP-13483 Aux Id: PR-998

Fix bug for aes_ecb block crypto when data is larger than 16 bytes.

Own Id: OTP-13249

Improve portability of ECC tests in Crypto and SSL for "exotic" OpenSSL versions.

Own Id: OTP-13311

Small documentation fixes

Own Id: OTP-13017

Make crypto:ec_curves/0 return empty list if elliptic curve is not supported at all.

Own Id: OTP-12944

Enhance crypto:generate_key to calculate ECC public keys from private key.

Own Id: OTP-12394

Fix bug in crypto:generate_key for ecdh that could cause VM crash for faulty input.

Own Id: OTP-12733

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.

Own Id: OTP-12380

Add AES ECB block encryption.

Own Id: OTP-12403

Extend block_encrypt/decrypt for aes_cfb8 and aes_cfb128 to accept keys of length 128, 192 and 256 bits. Before only 128 bit keys were accepted.

Own Id: OTP-12467

Add configure option --with-ssl-incl=PATH to support OpenSSL installations with headers and libraries at different places.

Own Id: OTP-12215 Aux Id: seq12700

Add configure option --with-ssl-rpath to control which runtime library path to use for dynamic linkage toward OpenSSL.

Own Id: OTP-12316 Aux Id: seq12753

Make crypto verify major version number of OpenSSL header files and runtime library. Loading of crypto will fail if there is a version mismatch.

Own Id: OTP-12146 Aux Id: seq12700

Fix memory leak in crypto:hmac_init/upgrade/final functions for all data and in crypto:hmac/3/4 for data larger than 20000 bytes. Bug exists since OTP 17.0.

Own Id: OTP-11953

Fix memory leak in crypto for elliptic curve.

Own Id: OTP-11999

Add aes_cfb8 cypher to crypto:block_encrypt and block_decrypt.

Own Id: OTP-11911

Fix memory leaks and invalid deallocations in mod_pow, mod_exp and generate_key(srp,...) when bad arguments are passed. (Thanks to Florian Zumbiehi)

Own Id: OTP-11550

Correction of the word 'ChipherText' throughout the documentation (Thanks to Andrew Tunnell-Jones)

Own Id: OTP-11609

Fix fatal bug when using a hmac context variable in more than one call to hmac_update or hmac_final. The reuse of hmac contexts has never worked as the underlying OpenSSL implementation does not support it. It is now documented as having undefined behaviour, but it does not crash or corrupt the VM anymore.

Own Id: OTP-11724

Crypto handles out-of-memory with a controlled abort instead of crash/corruption. (Thanks to Florian Zumbiehi)

Own Id: OTP-11725

Application upgrade (appup) files are corrected for the following applications:

asn1, common_test, compiler, crypto, debugger, dialyzer, edoc, eldap, erl_docgen, et, eunit, gs, hipe, inets, observer, odbc, os_mon, otp_mibs, parsetools, percept, public_key, reltool, runtime_tools, ssh, syntax_tools, test_server, tools, typer, webtool, wx, xmerl

A new test utility for testing appup files is added to test_server. This is now used by most applications in OTP.

(Thanks to Tobias Schlager)

Own Id: OTP-11744

By giving --enable-static-{nifs,drivers} to configure it is now possible to statically linking of nifs and drivers to the main Erlang VM binary. At the moment only the asn1 and crypto nifs of the Erlang/OTP nifs and drivers have been prepared to be statically linked. For more details see the Installation Guide in the System documentation.

Own Id: OTP-11258

Add IGE mode for AES cipher in crypto (Thanks to Yura Beznos).

Own Id: OTP-11522

Moved elliptic curve definition from the crypto NIF/OpenSSL into Erlang code, adds the RFC-5639 brainpool curves and makes TLS use them (RFC-7027).

Thanks to Andreas Schultz

Own Id: OTP-11578

Remove all obsolete application processes from crypto and make it into a pure library application.

Own Id: OTP-11619

Fix uninitialized pointers in crypto (Thanks to Anthony Ramine)

Own Id: OTP-11510

Refactor ecdsa cipher to simplify code and improve performance.

Own Id: OTP-11320

Integrate elliptic curve contribution from Andreas Schultz

In order to be able to support elliptic curve cipher suites in SSL/TLS, additions to handle elliptic curve infrastructure has been added to public_key and crypto.

This also has resulted in a rewrite of the crypto API to gain consistency and remove unnecessary overhead. All OTP applications using crypto has been updated to use the new API.

Impact: Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) offers equivalent security with smaller key sizes than other public key algorithms. Smaller key sizes result in savings for power, memory, bandwidth, and computational cost that make ECC especially attractive for constrained environments.

Own Id: OTP-11009

Fixed a spelling mistake in crypto docs. Thanks to Klaus Trainer

Own Id: OTP-11058

Make the crypto functions interruptible by chunking input when it is very large and bumping reductions in the nifs.

Not yet implemented for block_encrypt|decrypt/4

Impact: Individual calls to crypto functions may take longer time but over all system performance should improve as crypto calls will not become throughput bottlenecks.

Own Id: OTP-11142

Enable runtime upgrade of crypto including the OpenSSL library used by crypto.

Own Id: OTP-10596

Improve documentation and tests for hmac functions in crypto. Thanks to Daniel White

Own Id: OTP-10640

Added ripemd160 support to crypto. Thanks to Michael Loftis

Own Id: OTP-10667

Remove unnecessary dependency to libssl from crypto NIF library. This dependency was introduced by accident in R14B04.

Own Id: OTP-10064

Add crypto and public_key support for the hash functions SHA224, SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 and also hmac and rsa_sign/verify support using these hash functions. Thanks to Andreas Schultz for making a prototype.

Own Id: OTP-9908

Optimize RSA private key handling in crypto and public_key.

Own Id: OTP-10065

Make crypto:aes_cfb_128_encrypt and crypto:aes_cfb_128_decrypt handle data and cipher with arbitrary length. (Thanks to Stefan Zegenhagen)

Own Id: OTP-10136

public_key, ssl and crypto now supports PKCS-8

Own Id: OTP-9312

Erlang/OTP can now be built using parallel make if you limit the number of jobs, for instance using 'make -j6' or 'make -j10'. 'make -j' does not work at the moment because of some missing dependencies.

Own Id: OTP-9451

Add DES and Triple DES cipher feedback (CFB) mode functions to crypto. (Thanks to Paul Guyot)

Own Id: OTP-9640

Add sha256, sha384 and sha512 support for crypto:rsa_verify.

Own Id: OTP-9778

crypto:rand_uniform works correctly for negative integers. Fails with badarg exception for invalid ranges (when Hi =< Lo) instead of returning incorrect output.

Own Id: OTP-9526

Fix win32 OpenSSL static linking (Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber)

Own Id: OTP-9532

Various small documentation fixes (Thanks to Bernard Duggan)

Own Id: OTP-9172

New crypto support for streaming of AES CTR and HMAC. (Thanks to Travis Jensen)

Own Id: OTP-9275

Due to standard library DLL mismatches between versions of OpenSSL and Erlang/OTP, OpenSSL is now linked statically to the crypto driver on Windows. This fixes problems starting crypto when running Erlang as a service on all Windows versions.

Own Id: OTP-9280

Strengthened random number generation. (Thanks to Geoff Cant)

Own Id: OTP-9225

Misc. Updates.

Own Id: OTP-9132

AES CTR encryption support in crypto.

Own Id: OTP-8752 Aux Id: seq11642

Crypto dialyzer type error in md5_mac and sha_mac.

Own Id: OTP-8718

RC4 stream cipher didn't work. This since the new NIF implementation of crypto:rc4_encrypt_with_state/2 introduced in crypto-2.0 didn't return an updated state. (Thanks to Paul Guyot)

Own Id: OTP-8781

A number of memory leaks in the crypto NIF library have been fixed.

Own Id: OTP-8810

Added erlang:system_info(build_type) which makes it easier to chose drivers, NIF libraries, etc based on build type of the runtime system.

The NIF library for crypto can now be built for valgrind and/or debug as separate NIF libraries that will be automatically loaded if the runtime system has been built with a matching build type.

Own Id: OTP-8760

crypto application changed to use NIFs instead of driver.

Own Id: OTP-8333

des_ecb_encrypt/2 and des_ecb_decrypt/2 has been added to the crypto module. The crypto:md4/1 function has been documented.

Own Id: OTP-8551

The undocumented, unsupport, and deprecated function lists:flat_length/1 has been removed.

Own Id: OTP-8584

New variants of crypto:dss_sign and crypto:dss_verify with an extra argument to control how the digest is calculated.

Own Id: OTP-8700

Cross compilation improvements and other build system improvements.

Most notable:

(Thanks to Henrik Riomar for suggestions and testing)

(Thanks to Winston Smith for the AVR32-Linux cross configuration and testing)

*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

Own Id: OTP-8323

The crypto module now supports Blowfish in ECB, CBC and OFB modes. (Thanks to Paul Oliver.)

Own Id: OTP-8331

The documentation is now possible to build in an open source environment after a number of bugs are fixed and some features are added in the documentation build process.

- The arity calculation is updated.

- The module prefix used in the function names for bif's are removed in the generated links so the links will look like "http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#append_element-2" instead of "http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#erlang:append_element-2".

- Enhanced the menu positioning in the html documentation when a new page is loaded.

- A number of corrections in the generation of man pages (thanks to Sergei Golovan)

- The legal notice is taken from the xml book file so OTP's build process can be used for non OTP applications.

Own Id: OTP-8343

Suppressed false valgrind errors caused by libcrypto using uninitialized data as entropy.

Own Id: OTP-8200

The documentation is now built with open source tools (xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One visible change is that the frames are removed.

Own Id: OTP-8201

When the crypto application failed to load the OpenSSL/LibEAY shared object, error indication was sparse. Now a more specific error message is sent to the error logger.

Own Id: OTP-8281

Fixed emulator crash caused by crypto using an old openssl version that did not cope with large file descriptors.

Own Id: OTP-8261 Aux Id: seq11434

Makefile.in has been updated to use the LDFLAGS environment variable (if set). (Thanks to Davide Pesavento.)

Own Id: OTP-8157

Support for Blowfish cfb64 added to crypto.

Own Id: OTP-8096

New function crypto:aes_cbc_ivec

Own Id: OTP-8141

The dh_compute_key sometimes returned a SharedSecret of incorrect size.

Own Id: OTP-7674

Optimization for drivers by creating small binaries direct on process heap.

Own Id: OTP-7762

Added new functions: dss_verify/3, rsa_verify/3, rsa_verify/4, dss_sign/2, rsa_sign/2, rsa_sign/3, rsa_public_encrypt, rsa_private_decrypt/3, rsa_private_encrypt/3, rsa_public_decrypt/3, dh_generate_key/1, dh_generate_key/2, dh_compute_key/3.

Own Id: OTP-7545

Minor performance optimization.

Own Id: OTP-7521

./configure has been improved to find 64-bit OpenSSL libraries.

Own Id: OTP-7270

crypto and zlib drivers improved to allow concurent smp access.

Own Id: OTP-7262

The linked in driver for the crypto application is now linked statically against the OpenSSL libraries, to avoid installation and runtime problems in connection to the OpenSSL library locations.

Own Id: OTP-6680

Minor Makefile changes.

Own Id: OTP-6689

It is now explicitly checked at start-up that the crypto driver is properly loaded (Thanks to Claes Wikstrom).

Own Id: OTP-6109

The previously undocumented and UNSUPPORTED ssh application has been updated and documented. This release of the ssh application is still considered to be a beta release and (if necessary) there could still be changes in its API before it reaches 1.0.

Also, more cryptographic algorithms have been added to the crypto application.

*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

Own Id: OTP-5631

Added support for RFC 3826 - The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Cipher Algorithm in the SNMP User-based Security Model.

Martin Björklund

Linked in drivers in the crypto, and asn1 applications are now compiled with the -D_THREAD_SAFE and -D_REENTRANT switches on unix when the emulator has thread support enabled.

Linked in drivers on MacOSX are not compiled with the undocumented -lbundle1.o switch anymore. Thanks to Sean Hinde who sent us a patch.

Linked in driver in crypto, and port programs in ssl, now compiles on OSF1.

Minor makefile improvements in runtime_tools.

Own Id: OTP-5346

Corrected error handling. If the port to the driver that crypto uses is unexpectedly closed (which should not happen during normal operation of crypto), crypto will terminate immediately (rather than crashing the next time crypto is used). Also corrected build problems on Mac OS X.

Own Id: OTP-5279

It was not possible in R9 to relink the crypto driver. The object file was missing as well as an example makefile. The crypto driver object file is now released with the application (installed in priv/obj). An example makefile has also been added to the priv/obj directory. The makefile serves as an example of how to relink the driver on Unix (crypto_drv.so) or Windows (crypto_drv.dll).

Own Id: OTP-4828 Aux Id: seq8193

Previous versions of Crypto where delivered with statically linked binaries based on SSLeay. That is not longer the case. The current version of Crypto requires dynamically linked OpenSSL libraries that the user has to install. The library needed is libcrypto.so (Unix) or libeay32.[lib|dll] (Win32). For further details see the crypto(6) application manual page.

This version of Crypto uses the new DES interface of OpenSSL 0.9.7, which is not backward compatible with earlier versions of OpenSSL.

The start of crypto failed on Windows, due to erroneous addition of a DES3 algorithm.

Own Id: OTP-4684

Aux Id: seq7864

In the manual page crypto(3) the function names md5_finish and sha_finish have been changed to md5_final and sha_final to correctly document the implementation.

Own Id: OTP-3409

The driver part of the Crypto application has been updated to use the erl_driver header file. Version 1.1.1 requires emulator version 4.9.1 or later.

On Windows the crypto_drv was incorrectly linked to static run-time libraries instead of dynamic ones.

Own Id: OTP-3240