CHANGES entry: for ECC parameters with NULL or zero cofactor, compute it

This is a forward port from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9781
of the CHANGES entry for the functionality added in
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9727

(cherry picked from commit 4b965086cb)

Reviewed-by: Nicola Tuveri <nic.tuv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9797)
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Billy Brumley 2019-09-06 17:26:40 +03:00 committed by Nicola Tuveri
parent 5041ea38c9
commit a1a0e6f285

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Changes between 1.1.1 and 3.0.0 [xx XXX xxxx] Changes between 1.1.1 and 3.0.0 [xx XXX xxxx]
*) Compute ECC cofactors if not provided during EC_GROUP construction. Before
this change, EC_GROUP_set_generator would accept order and/or cofactor as
NULL. After this change, only the cofactor parameter can be NULL. It also
does some minimal sanity checks on the passed order.
(CVE-2019-1547)
[Billy Bob Brumley]
*) Early start up entropy quality from the DEVRANDOM seed source has been *) Early start up entropy quality from the DEVRANDOM seed source has been
improved for older Linux systems. The RAND subsystem will wait for improved for older Linux systems. The RAND subsystem will wait for
/dev/random to be producing output before seeding from /dev/urandom. /dev/random to be producing output before seeding from /dev/urandom.