Commit 9b13e27c authored by Matt Caswell's avatar Matt Caswell
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Update CHANGES and NEWS 



Update the CHANGES and NEWS files with information about the recently added
AFALG engine and pipelining.

Reviewed-by: default avatarRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
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CHANGES

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 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

NEWS

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  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