OpenSSL 1.0.0 released
OpenSSL 1.0.0 released
Posted Mar 30, 2010 6:13 UTC (Tue) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846)In reply to: OpenSSL 1.0.0 released by nix
Parent article: OpenSSL 1.0.0 released
> oh, and, GOST! Who would have thought the day would come when Soviet Cold War-era top secret ciphers were being incorporated into free software! I'm not sure how *useful* it is, but you must admit it's damn cool.
Actually, OpenSSL 1.0.0 incorporates not just GOST 28147-89 (the Cold War-era DES-like symmetric cipher that you are probably referring to), but also GOST R 34.10-94 (a 256-bit hash function released in 1994), GOST R 34.10-94 (a discrete logarithm digital signature algorithm released circa 1995) and GOST R 34.10-2001 (an elliptic curve cryptography upgrade of R 34.10-94 that was released in 2001).
Incorporating these algorithms into OpenSSL is useful because it allows open-source software to be used in systems where Russian authorities mandate the use of domestically developed encryption standards.