From 9b13e27c28364b6c0f18bd6674c4c9d2a5e2dea0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Caswell Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 13:00:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update CHANGES and NEWS Update the CHANGES and NEWS files with information about the recently added AFALG engine and pipelining. Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte --- CHANGES | 14 ++++++++++++++ NEWS | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index bbdc21ca5e..e9d3f02bca 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -4,6 +4,20 @@ Changes between 1.0.2g and 1.1.0 [xx XXX xxxx] + *) Added support for "pipelining". Ciphers that have the + EVP_CIPH_FLAG_PIPELINE flag set have a capability to process multiple + encryptions/decryptions simultaneously. There are currently no built-in + ciphers with this property but the expectation is that engines will be able + to offer it to significantly improve throughput. Support has been extended + into libssl so that multiple records for a single connection can be + processed in one go (for >=TLS 1.1). + [Matt Caswell] + + *) Added the AFALG engine. This is an async capable engine which is able to + offload work to the Linux kernel. In this initial version it only supports + AES128-CBC. The kernel must be version 4.1.0 or greater. + [Catriona Lucey] + *) OpenSSL now uses a new threading API. It is no longer necessary to set locking callbacks to use OpenSSL in a multi-threaded environment. There are two supported threading models: pthreads and windows threads. It is diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c3538f55c1..3a20deb07c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [in pre-release] + o Added support for "pipelining" + o Added the AFALG engine o New threading API implemented o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl o Support for extended master secret -- 2.25.1