Release of cryptographic library Libressl 3.6.0

Developers of the OpenBSD project presented the release of the portable edition of the package libressl 3.6.0 , in which the Opensl Fork, aimed at ensuring a higher level of security. The Libressl project is focused on high -quality support for the SSL/TLS protocols with the removal of excessive functionality, the addition of additional protection tools and a significant cleaning and processing of the code base. The release of Libressl 3.6.0 is considered as experimental, in which the possibilities of OpenBSD 7.2.

are developing.

Features of Libressl 3.6.0:

  • Opensl is ported by the API evp for the function of forming the key hkdf (Hmac Key Derivation Function).
  • Added API for installing and obtaining security levels – ssl {, ctx} {get, set, set } _Security_level () .
  • Added experimental support of the API for the QUIC protocol, originally implemented in Boringssl.
  • The initial support for the verification of TS ESSCERTIDV2.
  • involved Simplicity test Bailey – Pomeranz – Selfridge – Wogstaff
    ( BALILIE-PSW ) Instead of miller-rabin test.
  • Significant internal processing has been carried out. Resource -intensive inspections RFC 3779 were removed during certification verification. The decoder and the time for ASN.1 was converted. The implementation of ASN1_String_to_utf8 ().
  • is rewritten.

  • The option -“S” for showing only ciphers supported by the specified protocol.
  • is added to the OpensSL utility.

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