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Re: GNU Libtasn1 4.16.0 released
From: |
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos |
Subject: |
Re: GNU Libtasn1 4.16.0 released |
Date: |
Sun, 2 Feb 2020 09:52:06 +0100 |
I see it as first in the list of the URL you sent. You can get it
directly from the links at:
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-help/2020-February/004621.html
regards,
Nikos
On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 1:37 AM Jeffrey Walton <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 6:07 PM Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > GNU Libtasn1 is a standalone library written in C for manipulating
> > ASN.1 objects including DER/BER encoding/decoding. GNU Libtasn1 is
> > used by GnuTLS to handle X.509 structures.
> >
> > * Noteworthy changes in release 4.16.0 (released 2020-02-01) [stable]
> > -
> > asn1_decode_simple_ber: added support for constructed definite
> > octet
> > strings. This allows this function decode the whole set of
> > BER
> > encodings for OCTET STRINGs.
> > - asn1_get_object_id_der: enhance the range
> > of decoded OIDs (#25).
> > This also makes OID encoding and decoding more
> > strict on invalid
> > input. This may break gnutls' test suite before
> > 3.6.12 as it was
> > relying on decoding some invalid OIDs.
> > -
> > asn1_object_id_der: New function
>
> It looks like the GnuTLS download lacks 3.6.12:
> https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnutls/v3.6/
>
> Jeff