[openssl-commits] [openssl] master update

Matt Caswell matt at openssl.org
Fri Jun 22 10:38:05 UTC 2018


The branch master has been updated
       via  3aab9c40118f6a9d92d3a9d9fa1724421515e09f (commit)
      from  34446a852457600fc1297edce81e14da4e287191 (commit)


- Log -----------------------------------------------------------------
commit 3aab9c40118f6a9d92d3a9d9fa1724421515e09f
Author: Matt Caswell <matt at openssl.org>
Date:   Thu Jun 21 10:37:54 2018 +0100

    Add a high level note about the various SCA mitigations
    
    Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale at oracle.com>
    (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/6550)

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Summary of changes:
 CHANGES | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index c272e8d..4cdcf52 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@
 
  Changes between 1.1.0h and 1.1.1 [xx XXX xxxx]
 
+  *) Numerous side-channel attack mitigations have been applied. This may have
+     performance impacts for some algorithms for the benefit of improved
+     security. Specific changes are noted in this change log by their respective
+     authors.
+     [Matt Caswell]
+
   *) AIX shared library support overhaul. Switch to AIX "natural" way of
      handling shared libraries, which means collecting shared objects of
      different versions and bitnesses in one common archive. This allows to


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