operations no longer require two distinct BN_CTX structures. This may put
more "strain" on the current BN_CTX implementation (which has a fixed limit
to the number of variables it will hold), but so far this limit is not
triggered by any of the tests pass and I will be changing BN_CTX in the
near future to avoid this problem anyway.
This also changes the default RSA implementation code to use the BN_CTX in
favour of initialising some of its variables locally in each function.
- Remove some unnecessary "+1"-like fudges. Sizes should be handled
exactly, as enlarging size parameters causes needless bloat and may just
make bugs less likely rather than fixing them: bn_expand() macro,
bn_expand_internal(), and BN_sqr().
- Deprecate bn_dup_expand() - it's new since 0.9.7, unused, and not that
useful.
- Remove unnecessary zeroing of unused bytes in bn_expand2().
- Rewrite BN_set_word() - it should be much simpler, the previous
complexities probably date from old mismatched type issues.
- Add missing bn_check_top() macros in bn_word.c
- Improve some degenerate case handling in BN_[add|sub]_word(), add
comments, and avoid a bignum expansion if an overflow isn't possible.
by using the Codenomicon TLS Test Tool (CAN-2004-0079)
Fix flaw in SSL/TLS handshaking when using Kerberos ciphersuites
(CAN-2004-0112)
Ready for 0.9.7d build
Submitted by: Steven Henson
Reviewed by: Joe Orton
Approved by: Mark Cox
functions and macros.
This change has associated tags: LEVITTE_before_const and
LEVITTE_after_const. Those will be removed when this change has been
properly reviewed.
Remove certain redundant BN_zero() initialisations, because BN_CTX_get(),
BN_init(), [etc] already initialise to zero.
Correct error checking in bn_sqr.c, and be less wishy-wash about how/why
the result's 'top' value is set (note also, 'max' is always > 0 at this
point).
bignums are passed in and out of functions and APIs in a consistent form
has highlighted that zero-valued bignums don't need any allocated word
data. The use of BN_set_word() to initialise a bignum to zero causes
needless allocation and gives it a return value that must be checked. This
change converts BN_zero() to a self-contained macro that has no
return/expression value and does not cause any expansion of bignum data.
Note, it would be tempting to rewrite the deprecated version as a
success-valued comma expression, such as;
#define BN_zero(a) ((a)->top = (a)->neg = 0, 1)
However, this evaluates 'a' twice and would confuse initialisation loops
(eg. while(..) { BN_zero(bn++) } ). As such, the deprecated version
continues to use BN_set_word().
For reference. Note that both cc and gcc support -Wl flag, but we can't
use -Wl,-[not]all with both drivers, because cc rearranges options
passed through -Wl. We can't use -Wl,-all,libcrypto.a,-notall with cc
either, because it refuses to start with "no input" error.
