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authorMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>2016-03-09 13:00:37 +0000
committerMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>2016-03-09 15:31:22 +0000
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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: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
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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