MD API deprecation: ChangeLog updates
Use the updated names for the new functions (xxx_ret instead of xxx_ext).
List the new deprecations in the appropriate sections.
Credit the independent report of the misuse of zeroizing to reset a
hash context in entropy.c.
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ New deprecations
(e.g., signing with a public key).
* Direct manipulation of structure fields of RSA contexts is deprecated.
Users are advised to use the extended RSA API instead.
+ * Deprecate usage of message digest functions that return void
+ (mbedtls_<MODULE>_starts, mbedtls_<MODULE>_update,
+ mbedtls_<MODULE>_finish and mbedtls_<MODULE>_process where <MODULE> is
+ any of MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512) in favor of functions
+ that can return an error code.
API Changes
* Extend RSA interface by multiple functions allowing structure-
@@ -51,19 +56,14 @@ API Changes
purpose or CRT and/or blinding.
* The configuration option MBEDTLS_RSA_ALT can be used to define alternative
implementations of the RSA interface declared in rsa.h.
- * The following functions in the MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA1, SHA256 and SHA512
- modules have been deprecated and replaced as shown below. The new
- functions change the return type from void to int to allow returning error
- codes when using MBEDTLS_<MODULE>_ALT.
- mbedtls_<MODULE>_starts() -> mbedtls_<MODULE>_starts_ext()
- mbedtls_<MODULE>_update() -> mbedtls_<MODULE>_update_ext()
- mbedtls_<MODULE>_finish() -> mbedtls_<MODULE>_finish_ext()
+ * The following functions in the message digest modules (MD2, MD4, MD5,
+ SHA1, SHA256, SHA512) have been deprecated and replaced as shown below.
+ The new functions change the return type from void to int to allow
+ returning error codes when using MBEDTLS_<MODULE>_ALT.
+ mbedtls_<MODULE>_starts() -> mbedtls_<MODULE>_starts_ret()
+ mbedtls_<MODULE>_update() -> mbedtls_<MODULE>_update_ret()
+ mbedtls_<MODULE>_finish() -> mbedtls_<MODULE>_finish_ret()
mbedtls_<MODULE>_process() -> mbedtls_internal_<MODULE>_process()
- The type of the function pointers in the mbedtls_md_info_t struct have
- also been modified taking into account the functions return code. Every
- usage of the deprecated functions was updated. Furthermore, the MD return
- codes are checked for error after every usage, except in the ssl_tls.c
- module.
Bugfix
* Fix ssl_parse_record_header() to silently discard invalid DTLS records
@@ -118,8 +118,9 @@ Bugfix
mbedtls_sha512_starts() in the mbedtls_entropy_init() function.
* Fix the entropy.c module to ensure that mbedtls_sha256_init() or
mbedtls_sha512_init() is called before operating on the relevant context
- structure. Also, ensure that message digest contexts are freed when
- calling mbedtls_entropy_free().
+ structure. Do not assume that zeroizing a context is a correct way to
+ reset it. Found independently by ccli8 on Github.
+ * In mbedtls_entropy_free(), properly free the message digest context.
Changes
* Extend cert_write example program by options to set the CRT version
@@ -132,6 +133,10 @@ Changes
* Only run AES-192 self-test if AES-192 is available. Fixes #963.
* Tighten the RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 signature verification code and remove the
undeclared dependency of the RSA module on the ASN.1 module.
+ * Update all internal usage of deprecated message digest functions to the
+ new ones with return codes. In particular, this modifies the
+ mbedtls_md_info_t structure. Propagate errors from these functions
+ everywhere except some locations in the ssl_tls.c module.
= mbed TLS 2.6.0 branch released 2017-08-10
