Re: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.24 Release

Julien Pierre <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.crypto
Organization Oracle Corporation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Kai,

On 5/22/2016 13:45, Kai Engert wrote:
> Notable Changes:
> * The following functions have been deprecated (applications should use the
>    new SSL_ConfigServerCert function instead):
>    * SSL_SetStapledOCSPResponses
>    * SSL_SetSignedCertTimestamps
>    * SSL_ConfigSecureServer
>    * SSL_ConfigSecureServerWithCertChain
> * Function NSS_FindCertKEAType is now deprecated, as it reports a misleading
>    value for certificates that might be used for signing rather than key
>    exchange.
> * SSLAuthType has been updated to define a larger number of authentication
>    key types.
> * The member attribute authAlgorithm of type SSLCipherSuiteInfo has been
>    deprecated. Instead, applications should use the newly added attribute
>    authType.
> * ssl_auth_rsa has been renamed to ssl_auth_rsa_decrypt.
>
Will the deprecated functions stop working right away ? Or is there a 
scheduled time at which they won't be supported anymore in the future ?
The SSL_ConfigSecureServer function is very commonly used, pretty much 
in all Oracle applications.
In the past, NSS has maintained binary compatibility, except in cases 
where security cannot be fixed, such as SSL2 .

Julien

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