Yesterday (11th of September), the OpenSSL team announced the stable release of OpenSSL 1.1.1. With work being in progress for two years along with more than 500 commits, the release comes with many notable upgrades.
The most important new feature in OpenSSL 1.1.1 is TLSv1.3, which was published last month as RFC 8446 by the Internet Engineering Task Force. Applications working with OpenSSL1.1.0 can gain the benefits of TLSv1.3 by upgrading to the new OpenSSL version.
For more details on TLS 1.3 read:
Introducing TLS 1.3, the first major overhaul of the TLS protocol with improved security and speed
The OpenSSL random number generator has been completely rewritten to introduce capabilities such as:
The different algorithms that are now supported by OpenSSL 1.1.1 include:
This upgrade also introduces significant Side-Channel attack security improvements, maximum fragment length TLS extension support and a new STORE module, implementing a uniform and URI based reader of stores containing keys, certificates, CRLs and numerous other objects.
OpenSSL 1.0.2 will receive full support only until the end of 2018 and security fixes only till the end of 2019. The team advises users of OpenSSL 1.0.2 to upgrade to OpenSSL 1.1.1 at the earliest.
Head over to the OpenSSL blog for further details on the news.
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