(xmlsec-core) Disabled KeyValue and DEREncodedKeyValue XML nodes by default. Use the '--enabled-key-data' option
for the xmlsec command line utility or update the 'keyInfoCtx.enabledKeyData' parameter if you need to re-enable these nodes
(also see question 3.5 in the FAQ).
(xmlsec-core) Removed '--enable-size-t' ('size_t' for MSVC builds) option and made 'xmlSecSize' to always be the same as 'size_t'.
(xmlsec-core) Removed previously deprecated functions, defines, etc.
(xmlsec-core) Fixed build for libxml2 v2.12.0.
(xmlsec-openssl) Removed support for OpenSSL 1.1.0 (end of life in Aug 2016).
The minimum OpenSSL supported version is 1.1.1; the version 3.0.0 or greater is recommended.
(xmlsec-nss) Added runtime check for the enabled algorithms in NSS.
(xmlsec-openssl) Fixed padding for GOST 2001 and 2012 signatures.
(xmlsec-nss) Added support for reading PEM certificates.
(xmlsec-nss) Added a check to ensure that the key certificate matches the key.
(xmlsec-nss) Added support for xmlsec command line tool '--verify-keys' option.
(xmlsec-gnutls) Added support for GOST R 34.11-94, GOST R 34.11-2012 256 bit, and GOST R 34.11-2012 512 bit digest algorithms.
(xmlsec-gnutls) Added support for GOST R 34.10-2001, GOST R 34.11-2012 256 bit, and GOST R 34.11-2012 512 bit signature algorithms.
(xmlsec-gnutls) Added support for xmlsec command line tool '--verify-keys' option.
(xmlsec-gnutls) Added check to ensure that the key certificat matches the key.
(xmlsec-mscng) Added support for xmlsec command line tool '--verify-keys' option.
(xmlsec-mscng) Replaced windows.h includes with wincrypt.h includes where possible.
(xmlsec-mscrypto) Replaced windows.h includes with wincrypt.h includes where possible.
(xmlsec command line tool) Added '--base64-line-size' option to control the base64 encoding line size.
(MSVC build) Added 'ftp' and 'http' options to control FTP and HTTP support. FTP support is disabled by default.
(MinGW build) The xmlsec-mscrypto is moved down in the default crypto library selection list as it is now
in maintanance mode (use '--with-default-crypto' option to force the selection).
(MinGW build) Fixed the static libraries build with "--enable-static-linking" option.
(ABI breaking change) Switched xmlSecSize to use size_t by default. Use "--enable-size-t=no" configure option ("size_t=no" on Windows) to
restore the old behaviour (note that support for xmlSecSize being different from size_t will be removed in the future).
(API breaking change) Changed the key search to strict mode: only keys referenced by KeyInfo are used. To restore the old "lax" mode,
set XMLSEC_KEYINFO_FLAGS_LAX_KEY_SEARCH flag on xmlSecKeyInfoCtx or use '--lax-key-search' option for XMLSec command line utility.
(API breaking change) The KeyName element content is now trimmed before key search is performed.
(API breaking change) Disabled FTP support by default. Use "--enable-ftp" configure option to restore it. Also added
"--enable-http" and "--enable-files" configure options to control support for loading files over HTTP or locally.
(API/ABI breaking change) Disabled MD5 digest method by default. Use "--enable-md5" configure options ("legacy-crypto" option on Windows) to re-enable MD5.
(ABI breaking change) Added "failureReason" file to xmlSecDSigCtx and xmlEncCtx to provide more granular operation failure reason.
Added support for loading keys through ossl-store interface (e.g.
for using keys from an HSM). Also see '--privkey-openssl-store' and '--pubkey-openssl-store ' command line options for XMLSec utility.
Added ability to control transforms binary chunk size to improve performance (see '--transform-binary-chunk-size' command line option for XMLSec utility).
Fixed all potentially unsafe integer conversions and all the other warnings.
(API/ABI breaking change) Removed dependency on xmlsec-gcrypt and libgcrypt libraries (including API functions) to enable support for different GnuTLS backends.
(API breaking change) The XMLSec command line utility is using 'strict' key search mode by default. To restore the old 'lax'
key search mode, use the new '--lax-key-search' option.
(API breaking change) The XMLSec command line utility is no longer prints detailed errors by default. To restore the detailed
errors, use the new '--verbose' option.
Added '--transform-binary-chunk-size' option to control transforms binary chunk size (increasing the chunk size should improve performance
at the expense of memory usage.
Added support for loading keys through ossl-store interface (e.g.
for using keys from an HSM). Also see '--privkey-openssl-store' and '--pubkey-openssl-store ' command line options for XMLSec utility.
Added '--enabled-key-info-reference-uris' option to control processing of the
the KeyInfoReference Element.
Added '--pbkdf2-key' option for loading PBKDF2 keys.
Added '--concatkdf-key' option for loading ConcatKDF keys.
Added '--hmac-min-out-len' option to control the min accepted HMAC Output length.
Added '--pubkey-openssl-engine' option to load public keys from OpenSSL engine.
Added '--crl-pem' and '--crl-der' options to load CRLs.
Added '--verify-keys' option to verify key's certificate before loading into Keys Manager (only supported for OpenSSL currently).
Enabled templatized output filenames to facilitate batch operations on multiple input files.
Detailed information about supported algorithms can be found here: XMLDsig and XMLEnc
interoperability reports.
Migration to OpenSSL 3.0 API (based on PR by @snargit). Note that OpenSSL engines
are disabled by default when XMLSec library is compiled against OpenSSL 3.0.
To re-enable OpenSSL engines, use "--enable-openssl3-engines" configure flag
(there will be a lot of deprecation warnings).
The OpenSSL before 1.1.0 and LibreSSL before 2.7.0 are now deprecated and
will be removed in the future versions of XMLSec Library.
Refactored all the integer casts to ensure cast-safety. Fixed all warnings
and enabled "-Werror" and "-pedantic" flags on CI builds.
Added configure flag to use size_t for xmlSecSize (currently disabled by default
for backward compatibility).
Disabled external entities loading by xmlsec utility app by default to prevent XXE attacks (d-hat).
Improved OpenSSL version and features detection.
Cleaned up, simplified, and standardized internal error reporting.
Marked as deprecated all the functions in xmlsec/soap.h file and a couple other functions no longer
required by xmlsec. These functions will be removed in the future releases.
Added OpenSSL 1.1.0 (pre 2) API support (major re-factoring for all OpenSSL based implementations of the
block ciphers and the DSA/ECDSA signatures).
Removed support for legacy OpenSSL 0.9.6 (last release: March, 2004) and 0.9.7 (last release: February, 2007).
Completely revamped manpages/documentation build to completely pass 'make distcheck' tests.
Deprecated XMLSEC_CRYPTO define in favor of xmlSecGetDefaultCrypto() function.
Implemented several other smaller features; fixed several other minor bugs, code cleanups:
(more details).
January 28, 2016
The XML Security Library was migrated to GitHub. Please use GitHub for
accessing source code and reporting issues.
May 27, 2014
The XML Security Library 1.2.20 release fixes a number of miscellaneous bugs and
updates expired or soon-to-be-expired certificates in the test suite.
March 24, 2013
The XML Security Library 1.2.19 release adds support for DSA-SHA256, ECDSA-SHA1,
ECDSA-SHA224, ECDSA-SHA256, ECDSA-SHA384, ECDSA-SHA512 and fixes a number of miscellaneous bugs.
May 11, 2011
The XML Security Library 1.2.18 release fixes
a serious crasher. All users are advised to upgraded as soon as possible.
xmlsec-mscrypto: Added HMAC with MD5, SHA1, SHA256/384/512;
RSA with MD5, SHA256/384/512 support.
xmlsec-mscrypto: Converted to Unicode (the non-Unicode builds are still available as compile time option).
xmlsec-nss: Added MD5 and SHA256/384/512 support for digest, HMAC
and RSA (the new minimum required version for NSS library is 3.9).
xmlsec-gnutls: Added SHA256/384/512 for digest and HMAC;
MD5 and RIPEMD160 digests support (the new minimum required version for
GnuTLS library is 2.8.0).
XMLSec library is switched from built-in LTDL library to the system
LTDL library on Linux/Unix and native calls on Windows to fix
security
issue
in LTDL.
Fixed minor bugs (see commits log
for complete list).
March 30, 2005
The new XML Security Library 1.2.8 release
merges OpenOffice.org changes to xmlsec-mscrypto and xmlsec-nss into
main xmlsec source tree.
February 23, 2005
The new XML Security Library 1.2.7 release
includes several bug fixes and minor enchancements:
(core) added functions to create <X509Data/> node children
in the signature template;
(core) fixed xmlSecGenerateID() function;
(core) fixed dynamic linking initialization/shutdown when custom memory
allocation functions are used;
(core) fixed encrypted text parsing and xmlParseInNodeContext() function;
(openssl) fixed parsing quoted values in the certificate subject;
(mscrypto) negative numbers support in xmlSecBnFromString()/xmlSecBnToString() functions.
August 25, 2004
The new XML Security Library 1.2.6
fixes several minor bugs and adds support for loading keys and
certificates from memory.
July 27, 2004
Created a list of books about
cryptography and security that covers most of the topics needed
for using XML Security Library.
April 15, 2004
The new XML Security Library 1.2.5
includes a simple XKMS server implementation and fixes a nasty
bug with encrypting/decrypting nodes with an empty content.
January 27, 2004
The new XML Security Library 1.2.4
release fixes many configuration and installation problems
found by John.
January 6, 2004
The new XML Security Library 1.2.3
release upgrades xmlsec-gnutls code to support latest gnutls
library version (1.0.4) and fixes several configuration and
installation problems.
November 11, 2003
The new XML Security Library 1.2.2
release includes several improvements in ./configure script
(Daniel, Roumen) and a bug fix for certificates serial number
processing in xmlsec-mscrypto.
October 14, 2003
The new XML Security Library 1.2.1
release includes a special "hack" for supporting ID attributes
with invalid values in Visa 3D; fixed processing of root element
node siblings (bug #124245); template functions for creating
<enc:KeyReference/> and <enc:DataReference/>
nodes (Wouter); new "XMLSEC_DOCDIR" environment variable
for ./configure script; updated README files for xmlsec-crypto
libraries.
September 30, 2003
The major change in the new XML Security Library 1.2.0
release is the MS Crypto API support implemented by Wouter. Other changes
include loading public keys from certificates and improved namespaces
support for start node selection with "--node-xpath" command line option
for xmlsec command line utility; updated online XML DSig Verifier;
updated docs and man pages.
September 17, 2003
The new XML Security Library 1.1.2 release
introduces dynamical crypto engines loading based on ltdl library (including
tutorial, API reference and documentation updates); adds an ability to build
multiple xmlsec-crypto libraries in one build on Windows; fixes minor problems
in test suite and multiple warnings when building on Sun Solaris.
August 21, 2003
The new XML Security Library 1.1.1 release
adds <X509Data/> node templates support to xmlsec-nss (Tej);
includes new functions for reading keys and certificates from memory
for xmlsec-core and xmlsec-openssl (Joachim); fixes several problems
in xmlsec configuration files (Roumen) and a bug in URI attribute
XInclude processing.
August 5, 2003
A great patch from Tej that dramaticaly improves xmlsec-nss functionality
deserves a minor version number update :). In addition to that, the new
XML Security Library 1.1.0
release includes <X509Data/> node templates support
for xmlsec-openssl (Roumen); separate pkg-config files for xmlsec-crypto
libraries and minor documentation updates (including coding style
and some useful commands for xmlsec developers in a new "HACKING"
file).
July 15, 2003
There were several minor patches during last month and it's time to do
a new XML Security Library 1.0.4
release to pick up them: x509 certificates names comparison function
now supports multiple entries woth the same object name (Roumen);
multiple build fixes; documentation mistypes fixes.
Also I gave an XML Security presentation at
OSCON 2003 last week.
You can download slides here.
June 17, 2003
The XML Security Library 1.0.3
release adds PKCS#8 support for xmlsec-openssl (Tej) and fixes several
configuration and portability problems.
June 03, 2003
The XML Security Library 1.0.2
release includes several fixes in xmlsec-nss configuration and
linking options (Tej), PKCS21 files reading improvements,
minor documentation and help file fixes. Also this release
includes some code for XKMS support. This is absolutely not usable
right now and not configured in by default. Please, don't
use or even compile it in.
April 28, 2003
The XML Security Library 1.0.1
release is a maintanance release. It fixes several compilation
problems found in 1.0.0 release on the following platforms:
OpenBSD/sparc64, Win32 Wacom C, Sun Workshop CC 6.0. Also from
now on Win32 MSVC port enables the threading support
by default (this is a part of the Igor's change to
LibXML2/LibXSLT/XMLSec libraries).If you don't
use one of these platforms then you'll see no difference.
April 17, 2003
The XML Security Library 1.0.0
release is the major upgrade from 0.0.X version.
The new version includes multiple crypto engines support
(with "out of the box" support for OpenSSL, GnuTLS and NSS);
simplified and cleaned internal structure and API;
several performance and memory usage improvements;
new or updated documentation (tutorial, API reference manual and
examples).
April 10, 2003
The final release candidate
XML Security
Library 1.0.0rc1
is available for download. This release includes
minor API polishing,
complete API Reference Manual,
new chapters in the tutorial and
several new examples.
Another big change is using major version number in library files
to prevent collisions between different library versions.
If no major problems will be found then the 1.0.0 release should
happen in a week from now.
April 8, 2003
The new XML Security Library 0.0.15
release is a preparation for the upcomming 1.0.0 release and
provides an ability to have both versions installed together
on the same box.
Also this release includes updated expired certificates for
the regression test suite and a fix for minor bug in reading binary
keys on Windows.
March 26, 2003 XML Security Library 0.1.1
release is the first release candidate for the new stable
version of XML Security Library. A lot of internal changes
including enchanced processing controls, performance improvements
for XML transforms, new documentation,
updated examples
and many many other small things.
Please try this release and report bugs. Again, it's the first
release candidate and it's very important for me to get your
feedback about it. Also if you are missing some features
in the library it's the best time to ask!
March 19, 2003 XML Security Library 0.0.14 release
includes several minor bugfixes in references URI
processing, binary transforms processing and xmlsec
command line utility.
March 5, 2003
The XML Security Library 0.1.0 release
creates a framework for integrating XML Security Library
with almost any crypto engine and even combining multiple crypto
engines in one application. As an example, basic support for GnuTLS and NSS
libraries is provided (digests, hmac and block ciphers).
This is a pre-alpha release not recommended for production
(please use the stable 0.0.X releases
instead). The new 0.1.X API and ABI will defenetly change.
However, if you plan to use XML Security Library with a new crypto
engine and plan to write some code then you can start now.
The "backend" API is pretty stable and I do not expect major
changes.
February 21, 2003 XML Security Library 0.0.13 release
fixes incorrect processing of signatures with more than 3 binary
transforms in a row, improved pkcs12 files support and minor
documentation update.
January 26, 2003
Two major fixes in HMAC and
DES/AES
algorithms are the reason for the new XML Security Library 0.0.12 release.
Also there are few other minor features and bug fixes (see Changelog in the
distribution for more details).
December 3, 2002
New XML Security Library 0.0.11 release
fixes a
major
problem
in Reference URI attribute processing. This release
also includes several Win32 build process fixes from Igor.
October 20, 2002
Almost two months from previous release and a lot of minor
enchancements are good reasons for the new
XML Security Library 0.0.10 release:
Added a way to specify "current time" to verify certificates
expiration against it;
Implemented XML results output format for the xmlsec command
line utility;
Fixed XMLDSig examples and added a new one (thanks to Devin
Heitmueller);
Resolved static link issue and a bunch of other improvements
for Win32 platform builds (Igor Zlatkovic);
Added dynamic linking option for xmlsec command line utility
to help Debian port (John Belmonte);
Minor bug fixes.
August 26, 2002
I've completelly screwed up. The release 0.0.8 was totally broken
(I've simply packaged files from wrong CVS :) )
and I am doing a new 0.0.9 release
to fix all the problems. Please upgrade to the new version
if you use any of previous XML Security Library releases.
I am really sorry for my stupid mistakes and I promise to never
do releases on Friday :(
And special thanks to Ferrell Moultrie for pointing this out.
July 11, 2002
XML Security Library documentation
created.
July 10, 2002
A new XML Security Library 0.0.7 release
includes all small bug fixes for last month and a new LibXML2 library
with improved canonicalization.
Win32 port is added: the idea and most of the configuration scripts
code was taken from LibXML2 (written by Igor Zlatkovic). I modified
original files so all errors are mine, not Igor's.
Many different performance optimizations (especially for RSA/DSA
algorithms and enveloped signatures).
Custom network protocol handler support is added. It is similar
to custom protocol handlers in LibXML2 but applied to binary files.
Separated XML Security Library RPM into xmlsec and xmlsec-devel
(suggested by Devin Heitmueller).
May 14, 2002
I've checked in new code for plugging in custom input handlers
(similar to ones that exist in LibXML2). The downside is that
you have to use
daily
LibXML2 snapshot
to compile daily XML Security Library snapshot.
Big external and internal cleanup. Now the API looks much more consistent
and I hope simple. I hope to declare API frozen in the next couple weeks.
Meantime, all comments and suggestions are welcome!
April 19, 2002
Minor release XMLSec 0.0.4 with main
goal to fix broken RPM:
The RPM is recompiled using OpenSSL 0.9.6. The previous
version was compiled with OpenSSL 0.9.7 but I got few complains
that there are no RPMs for 0.9.7 yet. The downsides of using 0.9.6 are
some functionality limitations for XML Encryption (no AES support,
incorrect padding mode for DES, etc.). If you want to use
XML Encryption it is better to compile the library from sources
and use OpenSSL 0.9.7
The testDSig, testEnc and testKeys scripts merged into standalone
"xmlsec" application.
April 16, 2002
A lot of changes and time for new release XMLSec 0.0.3:
The first release that includes XML Encryption support!
The bad news is that most of new features require OpenSSL 0.9.7 which is
not officially released yet.
Options to enable/disable support for particular algorithms were
added to the ./configure script.
All transforms header files were consolidated in "transforms.h".
April 5, 2002
Test suite updates and new minor release
XML
Security Library 0.0.2a.
New
interoperability tests
were provided by Merlin Hughes. XML Security Library successfully passed
all tests after small test program tweaking and adding workaround
for
OpenSSL CRL problem.
These new tests are included into the distribution and previous Merlin's
test suites are removed. Because of these changes I decided to generate
a new package that also will include the
Online
XML Digital Signature Verifier
code.
March 31, 2002
Some major changes and a time for new release:
XML Security
Library 0.0.2
. Now XML Security Library supports all MUST/SHOULD/MAY
features from XMLDSig standard!
Added X509 certificates and certificate chains support
The detailed signature generation/verification results are made available
to the application
The Transforms and KeyInfo code was significantly re-writen with a goal
to separate it from XMLDSig logic for better re-usability (in XML Encryption,
etc.)
March 18, 2002
Fixed wrong way shift of the DSA digest result bug found by Philipp
Gühring. This bug is critical and I have to do a
new
build.
Added "--with-pedantic" configuration option and fixed all but "unused
variable" warnings (bug reported by Daniel Veillard).
March 17, 2002
The XML Security Library 0.0.1 is released
and available for download! Please try it out and send
me your comments/suggestions.
