1 public_key Release Notes

1.1  Public_Key 0.8

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

  • Handling of unknown CA certificates was changed in ssl and public_key to work as intended.

    Own Id: OTP-8788

Improvements and New Features

  • Revise the public_key API - Cleaned up and documented the public_key API to make it useful for general use, also changed ssl to use the new API.

    Own Id: OTP-8722

  • Added the functionality so that the verification fun will be called when a certificate is considered valid by the path validation to allow access to each certificate in the path to the user application. Also try to verify subject-AltName, if unable to verify it let the application verify it.

    Own Id: OTP-8825

1.2  Public_Key 0.7

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

  • Certificates without any extensions could not be handled by public_key.

    Own Id: OTP-8626

Improvements and New Features

  • Code cleanup and minor bugfixes.

    Own Id: OTP-8649

1.3  Public_Key 0.6

Improvements and New Features

  • Support for Diffie-Hellman. ssl-3.11 requires public_key-0.6.

    Own Id: OTP-7046

  • Moved extended key usage test for ssl values to ssl.

    Own Id: OTP-8553 Aux Id: seq11541, OTP-8554

1.4  Public_Key 0.5

Improvements and New Features

  • Added public_key:pkix_transform/2 to enable ssl to send CA list during Certificate Request.

    NOTE: SSL (new_ssl) requires public_key-0.5. ssl usage.

    Own Id: OTP-8372

1.5  Public_Key 0.4

Improvements and New Features

  • The documentation is now built with open source tools (xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One visible change is that the frames are removed.

    Own Id: OTP-8250

1.6  Public_Key 0.3

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

  • Unknown attributes in certificates are left encoded instead of crashing. Patch by Will "wglozer" thanks.

    Own Id: OTP-8100

Improvements and New Features

  • Allow public_key:pem_to_der/[1,2] to take a binary as argument in addition to a filename. Patch by Geoff Cant, thanks.

    Own Id: OTP-8142

1.7  Public_Key 0.2

Improvements and New Features

  • X509 certificate handling has been extended and improved as a result of more extensive testing of both the ssl and public_key application. Even more extensions of the certificate handling is yet to be implemented.

    Own Id: OTP-7860

1.8  Public_Key 0.1

Improvements and New Features

  • First version.

    Own Id: OTP-7637