Shall I expect SHA3 support in OpenSSL-1.0.2 series?

[Matt Caswell]

On 24/04/2019 13:08, sathish reddy s wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I found the following line at https://www.openssl.org/source/
> "Our previous LTS version (1.0.2 series) will continue to be supported until
> 31st December 2019 (security fixes only during the last year of support)".
> 
> Is there any chance to add SHA3 support in the upcoming releases?

No. 1.0.2 is a stable branch. Any releases of stable branches are for bug and
security fixes. In the case of 1.0.2 it is in the last year of support so its
only getting security fixes. SHA3 is a feature and does not qualify.

Matt

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> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 5:29 PM Matt Caswell <matt at openssl.org
> <mailto:matt at openssl.org>> wrote:
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>     On 24/04/2019 12:48, sathish reddy s wrote:
>     > /Hi All,/
>     >
>     > /I saw Sha3 support in OpenSSL-1.1.1 branch. Shall I expect sha3 support in
>     > OpenSSL-1.0.2 branch?/
> 
>     No. As a rule we don't add new features to stable branches.
> 
>     Matt
>