1.1.1f

Tim Hudson tjh at cryptsoft.com
Thu Mar 26 20:10:23 UTC 2020


We don't guarantee constant time.

Tim.

On Fri, 27 Mar 2020, 5:41 am Bernd Edlinger, <bernd.edlinger at hotmail.de>
wrote:

> So I disagree, it is a bug when it is not constant time.
>
>
> On 3/26/20 8:26 PM, Tim Hudson wrote:
> > +1 for a release - and soon - and without bundling any more changes. The
> > circumstances justify getting this fix out. But I also think we need to
> > keep improvements that aren't bug fixes out of stable branches.
> >
> > Tim.
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Mar 2020, 3:12 am Matt Caswell, <matt at openssl.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 26/03/2020 15:14, Short, Todd wrote:
> >>> This type of API-braking change should be reserved for something like
> >>> 3.0, not a patch release.
> >>>
> >>> Despite it being a "incorrect", it is expected behavior.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Right - but the question now is not whether we should revert it (it has
> >> been reverted) - but whether this should trigger a 1.1.1f release soon?
> >>
> >> Matt
> >>
> >>> --
> >>> -Todd Short
> >>> // tshort at akamai.com <mailto:tshort at akamai.com>
> >>> // “One if by land, two if by sea, three if by the Internet."
> >>>
> >>>> On Mar 26, 2020, at 11:03 AM, Dr. Matthias St. Pierre
> >>>> <Matthias.St.Pierre at ncp-e.com <mailto:Matthias.St.Pierre at ncp-e.com>>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I agree, go ahead.
> >>>>
> >>>> Please also consider reverting the change for the 3.0 alpha release as
> >>>> well, see Daniel Stenbergs comment
> >>>>
> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/11378#issuecomment-603730581
> >>>> <
> >>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_openssl_openssl_issues_11378-23issuecomment-2D603730581&d=DwMGaQ&c=96ZbZZcaMF4w0F4jpN6LZg&r=QBEcQsqoUDdk1Q26CzlzNPPUkKYWIh1LYsiHAwmtRik&m=87AtfQDFl1z9cdRP12QeRUizmgnW6ejbufNT40Gip4Q&s=djWoIIXyggxwOfbwrmYGrSJdR5tWm06IdzY9x9tDxkA&e=
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Matthias
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> *From**:* openssl-project <openssl-project-bounces at openssl.org
> >>>> <mailto:openssl-project-bounces at openssl.org>> *On Behalf Of *Dmitry
> >>>> Belyavsky
> >>>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 26, 2020 3:48 PM
> >>>> *To:* Matt Caswell <matt at openssl.org <mailto:matt at openssl.org>>
> >>>> *Cc:* openssl-project at openssl.org <mailto:openssl-project at openssl.org
> >
> >>>> *Subject:* Re: 1.1.1f
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 5:14 PM Matt Caswell <matt at openssl.org
> >>>> <mailto:matt at openssl.org>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>     The EOF issue (https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/11378
> >>>>     <
> >>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_openssl_openssl_issues_11378&d=DwMGaQ&c=96ZbZZcaMF4w0F4jpN6LZg&r=QBEcQsqoUDdk1Q26CzlzNPPUkKYWIh1LYsiHAwmtRik&m=87AtfQDFl1z9cdRP12QeRUizmgnW6ejbufNT40Gip4Q&s=MAiLjfGJWaKvnBvqnM4fcyvGVfUyj9CDANO_vh4wfco&e=
> >>> )
> >>>>     has
> >>>>     resulted in us reverting the original EOF change in the 1.1.1
> branch
> >>>>     (https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/11400
> >>>>     <
> >>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_openssl_openssl_pull_11400&d=DwMGaQ&c=96ZbZZcaMF4w0F4jpN6LZg&r=QBEcQsqoUDdk1Q26CzlzNPPUkKYWIh1LYsiHAwmtRik&m=87AtfQDFl1z9cdRP12QeRUizmgnW6ejbufNT40Gip4Q&s=3hBU2pt84DQlrY1dCnSn9x1ah1gSzH6NEO_bNRH-6DE&e=
> >>> ).
> >>>>
> >>>>     Given that this seems to have broken quite a bit of stuff, I
> propose
> >>>>     that we do a 1.1.1f soon (possibly next Tuesday - 31st March).
> >>>>
> >>>>     Thoughts?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I strongly support this idea.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> SY, Dmitry Belyavsky
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
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