[Opendnssec-announce] SoftHSM 2.0.0a2

[Sara Dickinson]

All, 

Version 2.0.0a2 of SoftHSM has now been released. This is a development release for testing and evaluation purposes only. 

Updates:

* SOFTHSM-68: Display a better configure message when there is a  version of Botan with a broken ECC/GOST/OID implementation.
* SOFTHSM-70: Improved handling of the database backend.
* SOFTHSM-71: Supporting Botan 1.11.
* SOFTHSM-76: Do not generate RSA keys smaller than 1024 bit when using the Botan crypto backend.
* SOFTHSM-83: Support CKA_VALUE_BITS for CKK_DH private key object.
* SOFTHSM-85: Rename libsofthsm.so to libsofthsm2.so and prefix the command line utilties with softhsm2-.
* SOFTHSM-89: Use constants and not strings for signaling algorithms.
* SUPPORT-129: Possible to use an empty template in C_GenerateKey. The class and key type are inherited from the generation mechanism. Some mechanisms do however require a length attribute. [SOFTHSM-88]
* SUPPORT-131: Support RSA-PSS using SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, or SHA512. [SOFTHSM-87]

Bugfixes:

* SOFTHSM-39: Fix 64 bit build on sparc sun4v.
* SOFTHSM-69: GOST did not work when you disabled ECC.
* SOFTHSM-78: Correct the attribute checks for a number of objects.
* SOFTHSM-80: Prevent segfault in OpenSSL GOST HMAC code.
* SOFTHSM-91: Fix a warning from static code analysis.
* Fixed a number of memory leaks.

Documentation:

* https://wiki.opendnssec.org/display/SoftHSMDOCS/SoftHSM+Documentation+v2.0

Download:

* https://dist.opendnssec.org/source/testing/softhsm-2.0.0a2.tar.gz
* https://dist.opendnssec.org/source/testing/softhsm-2.0.0a2.tar.gz.sig
* Checksum SHA1: 5197835de70eedbf4e33ca3a9b3da8e112e4c85c
* Checksum SHA256: 325187ae0823c22c4d3794914edcefef891b1b8021c3d363404d77508f86b9ca

GitHub tag:

https://github.com/opendnssec/SoftHSMv2/releases/tag/2.0.0a2


//OpenDNSSEC team