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Revision 1.16 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Tue Nov 28 14:06:12 2017 UTC (6 years, 4 months ago) by wiz
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CVS Tags: pkgsrc-2018Q3-base, pkgsrc-2018Q3, pkgsrc-2018Q2-base, pkgsrc-2018Q2, pkgsrc-2018Q1-base, pkgsrc-2018Q1, pkgsrc-2017Q4-base, pkgsrc-2017Q4
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nettle: update to 3.4.

NEWS for the Nettle 3.4 release

	This release fixes bugs and adds a few new features. It also
	addresses an ABI compatibility issue affecting Nettle-3.1 and
	later, see below.

	Bug fixes:

	* Fixed an improper use of GMP mpn_mul, breaking curve2559 and
	  eddsa on certain platforms. Reported by Sergei Trofimovich.

	* Fixed memory leak when handling invalid signatures in
	  ecdsa_verify. Fix contributed by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos.

	* Fix compilation error with --enable-fat om ARM. Fix
	  contributed by Andreas Schneider.

	* Reorganized the way certain data items are made available.

	  Short version: Nettle header files now define the symbols
	  nettle_hashes, nettle_ciphers, and nettle_aeads, as
	  preprocessor macros invoking a corresponding accessor
	  function. For backwards ABI compatibility, the symbols are
	  still present in the compiled libraries, and with the same
	  sizes as in nettle-3.3.

	New features:

	* Support for RSA-PSS signatures, contributed by Daiki Ueno.

	* Support for the HKDF key derivation function, defined by RFC
	  5869. Contributed by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos.

	* Support for the Cipher Feedback Mode (CFB), contributed by
	  Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov.

	* New accessor functions: nettle_get_hashes,
	  nettle_get_ciphers, nettle_get_aeads, nettle_get_secp_192r1,
	  nettle_get_secp_224r1, nettle_get_secp_256r1,
	  nettle_get_secp_384r1, nettle_get_secp_521r1.

	  For source-level compatibility with future versions,
	  applications are encouraged to migrate to using these
	  functions instead of referring to the corresponding data
	  items directly.

	Miscellaneous:

	* The base16 and base64 functions now use the type char * for
	  ascii data, rather than uint8_t *. This eliminates the last
	  pointer-signedness warnings when building Nettle. This is a
	  minor API change, and applications may need to be adjusted,
	  but the ABI is unaffected on all platforms I'm aware of.

	* The contents of the header file nettle/version.h is now
	  architecture independent, except in --enable-mini-gmp
	  configurations.

	ABI issue:

	  Since the breakage was a bit subtle, let me document it
	  here. The nettle and hogweed libraries export a couple of
	  data symbols, and for some of these, the size was never
	  intended to be part of the ABI. E.g.,

	    extern const struct nettle_hash * const nettle_hashes[];

	  which is an NULL-terminated array.

	  It turns out the sizes nevertheless may leak into the ABI, and
	  that increasing the sizes can break old executables linked
	  with a newer version of the library.

	  When linking a classic non-PIE executable with a shared
	  library, we get ELF relocations of type R_X86_64_COPY for
	  references to data items. These mean that the linker allocates
	  space for the data item in the data segment of executable, at
	  a fixed address determined at link-time, and with size
	  extracted from the version of the .so-file seen when linking.

	  At load time, the run time linker then copies the contents of
	  the symbol from the .so file to that location, and uses the
	  copy instead of the version loaded with the .so-file. And if
	  the data item in the .so file used at load time is larger than
	  the data item seen at link time, it is silently truncated in
	  the process.

	  So when SHA3 hashes were was added to the nettle_hashes array
	  in the nettle-3.3 release, this way of linking produces a
	  truncated array at load time, no longer NULL-terminated.

	  We will get similar problems for planned extensions of the
	  internal struct ecc_curve, and exported data items like

	    extern const struct ecc_curve nettle_secp_256r1;

	  where the ecc_curve struct is only forward declared in the
	  public headers. To prepare, applications should migrate to
	  using the new function nettle_get_secp_256r1, and similarly
	  for the other curves.

	  In some future version, the plan is to add a leading
	  underscore to the name of the actual data items. E.g.,
	  nettle_hashes --> _nettle_hashes, breaking the ABI, while
	  keeping the nettle_get_hashes function and the nettle_hashes
	  macro as the supported ways to access it. We will also
	  rename nettle_secp_256r1 --> _nettle_secp_256r1, breaking
	  both ABI and API.

	  Note that data items like nettle_sha256 are *not* affected,
	  since the size and layout of this struct is considered part
	  of the ABI, and R_X86_64_COPY-relocations then work fine.

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