25 May 1999
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 13:47:20 +0100 From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> Subject: [ANNOUNCE] OpenSSL 0.9.3 released To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk OpenSSL version 0.9.3 released =============================== OpenSSL - The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS http://www.openssl.org/ The OpenSSL project team is pleased to announce the release of version 0.9.3 of our open source toolkit for SSL/TLS. This new OpenSSL version incorporates over 90 changes and bugfixes to the toolkit (for a complete list see http://www.openssl.org/source/exp/CHANGES). The most significant changes are: o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism o RSA OEAP related fixes o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString o Full integration of PKCS#12 code o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions o Option to disable selected ciphers o VMS support We consider OpenSSL 0.9.3 to be the best version of OpenSSL available and we strongly recommend that users of older versions, especially of old SSLeay versions, upgrade as soon as possible. OpenSSL 0.9.3 is available for download via HTTP and FTP from the following master locations (the various FTP mirrors you can find under http://www.openssl.org/source/mirror.html): o http://www.openssl.org/source/ o ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/ Yours, The OpenSSL Project Team... Mark J. Cox Bodo Moeller Ralf S. Engelschall Ulf Moeller Dr. Stephen Henson Holger Reif Ben Laurie Paul C. Sutton -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi