PyCA cryptography 2.3 released

Hans-Peter Jansen hpj at urpla.net
Wed Jul 18 11:24:30 EDT 2018


Hi Paul,

you have a version mismatch in subject and text.

Cheers,
Pete

On Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2018 05:19:27 Paul Kehrer wrote:
> PyCA cryptography 2.2.2 has been released to PyPI. cryptography includes
> both high level recipes and low level interfaces to common cryptographic
> algorithms such as symmetric ciphers, message digests, and key derivation
> functions. We support Python 2.7, Python 3.4+, and PyPy.
> 
> Changelog (https://cryptography.io/en/latest/changelog/#v2-3):
> 
> * SECURITY ISSUE: finalize_with_tag() allowed tag truncation by default
> which can allow tag forgery in some cases. The method now enforces the
> min_tag_length provided to the GCM constructor.
> * Added support for Python 3.7.
> * Added extract_timestamp() to get the authenticated timestamp of a Fernet
> token.
> * Support for Python 2.7.x without hmac.compare_digest has been deprecated.
> We will require Python 2.7.7 or higher (or 2.7.6 on Ubuntu) in the next
> cryptography release.
> * Fixed multiple issues preventing cryptography from compiling against
> LibreSSL 2.7.x.
> * Added get_revoked_certificate_by_serial_number for quick serial number
> searches in CRLs.
> * The RelativeDistinguishedName class now preserves the order of
> attributes. Duplicate attributes now raise an error instead of silently
> discarding duplicates.
> * aes_key_unwrap() and aes_key_unwrap_with_padding() now raise
> InvalidUnwrap if the wrapped key is an invalid length, instead of
> ValueError.
> 
> -Paul Kehrer (reaperhulk)




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