Cryptography

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* **BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE:** Support for OpenSSL 1.1.0 has been removed.
Users on older version of OpenSSL will need to upgrade.
* **BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE:** Dropped support for LibreSSL < 3.5. The new
minimum LibreSSL version is 3.5.0. Going forward our policy is to support
versions of LibreSSL that are available in versions of OpenBSD that are
still receiving security support.
* **BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE:** Removed the ``encode_point`` and
``from_encoded_point`` methods on
:class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ec.EllipticCurvePublicNumbers`,
which had been deprecated for several years.
:meth:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ec.EllipticCurvePublicKey.public_bytes`
and
:meth:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ec.EllipticCurvePublicKey.from_encoded_point`
should be used instead.
* **BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE:** Support for using MD5 or SHA1 in
:class:`~cryptography.x509.CertificateBuilder`, other X.509 builders, and
PKCS7 has been removed.
* **BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE:** Dropped support for macOS 10.10 and 10.11, macOS
users must upgrade to 10.12 or newer.
* **ANNOUNCEMENT:** The next version of ``cryptography`` (40.0) will change
the way we link OpenSSL. This will only impact users who build
``cryptography`` from source (i.e., not from a ``wheel``), and specify their
own version of OpenSSL. For those users, the ``CFLAGS``, ``LDFLAGS``,
``INCLUDE``, ``LIB``, and ``CRYPTOGRAPHY_SUPPRESS_LINK_FLAGS`` environment
variables will no longer be respected. Instead, users will need to
configure their builds `as documented here`_.
* Added support for
:ref:`disabling the legacy provider in OpenSSL 3.0.x<legacy-provider>`.
* Added support for disabling RSA key validation checks when loading RSA
keys via
:func:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.serialization.load_pem_private_key`,
:func:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.serialization.load_der_private_key`,
and
:meth:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.rsa.RSAPrivateNumbers.private_key`.
This speeds up key loading but is :term:`unsafe` if you are loading potentially
attacker supplied keys.
* Significantly improved performance for
:class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.ciphers.aead.ChaCha20Poly1305`
when repeatedly calling ``encrypt`` or ``decrypt`` with the same key.
* Added support for creating OCSP requests with precomputed hashes using
:meth:`~cryptography.x509.ocsp.OCSPRequestBuilder.add_certificate_by_hash`.
* Added support for loading multiple PEM-encoded X.509 certificates from
a single input via :func:`~cryptography.x509.load_pem_x509_certificates`.

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* Fixed compilation when using LibreSSL 3.6.0.
* Fixed error when using ``py2app`` to build an application with a
``cryptography`` dependency.

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* Updated Windows, macOS, and Linux wheels to be compiled with OpenSSL 3.0.7,
which resolves *CVE-2022-3602* and *CVE-2022-3786*.

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.. attention::

This release was subsequently yanked from PyPI due to a regression in OpenSSL.

* Updated Windows, macOS, and Linux wheels to be compiled with OpenSSL 3.0.6.


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* Fixed parsing TLVs in ASN.1 with length greater than 65535 bytes (typically
seen in large CRLs).

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* Final deprecation of OpenSSL 1.1.0. The next release of ``cryptography``
will drop support.
* We no longer ship ``manylinux2010`` wheels. Users should upgrade to the
latest ``pip`` to ensure this doesn't cause issues downloading wheels on
their platform. We now ship ``manylinux_2_28`` wheels for users on new
enough platforms.
* Updated the minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) to 1.48.0, from 1.41.0.
Users with the latest ``pip`` will typically get a wheel and not need Rust
installed, but check :doc:`/installation` for documentation on installing a
newer ``rustc`` if required.
* :meth:`~cryptography.fernet.Fernet.decrypt` and related methods now accept
both ``str`` and ``bytes`` tokens.
* Parsing ``CertificateSigningRequest`` restores the behavior of enforcing
that the ``Extension`` ``critical`` field must be correctly encoded DER. See
`the issue <https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/6368>`_ for complete
details.
* Added two new OpenSSL functions to the bindings to support an upcoming
``pyOpenSSL`` release.
* When parsing :class:`~cryptography.x509.CertificateRevocationList` and
:class:`~cryptography.x509.CertificateSigningRequest` values, it is now
enforced that the ``version`` value in the input must be valid according to
the rules of :rfc:`2986` and :rfc:`5280`.
* Using MD5 or SHA1 in :class:`~cryptography.x509.CertificateBuilder` and
other X.509 builders is deprecated and support will be removed in the next
version.
* Added additional APIs to
:class:`~cryptography.x509.certificate_transparency.SignedCertificateTimestamp`, including
:attr:`~cryptography.x509.certificate_transparency.SignedCertificateTimestamp.signature_hash_algorithm`,
:attr:`~cryptography.x509.certificate_transparency.SignedCertificateTimestamp.signature_algorithm`,
:attr:`~cryptography.x509.certificate_transparency.SignedCertificateTimestamp.signature`, and
:attr:`~cryptography.x509.certificate_transparency.SignedCertificateTimestamp.extension_bytes`.
* Added :attr:`~cryptography.x509.Certificate.tbs_precertificate_bytes`, allowing
users to access the to-be-signed pre-certificate data needed for signed
certificate timestamp verification.
* :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.kdf.kbkdf.KBKDFHMAC` and
:class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.kdf.kbkdf.KBKDFCMAC` now support
:attr:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.kdf.kbkdf.CounterLocation.MiddleFixed`
counter location.
* Fixed :rfc:`4514` name parsing to reverse the order of the RDNs according
to the section 2.1 of the RFC, affecting method
:meth:`~cryptography.x509.Name.from_rfc4514_string`.
* It is now possible to customize some aspects of encryption when serializing
private keys, using
:meth:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.serialization.PrivateFormat.encryption_builder`.
* Removed several legacy symbols from our OpenSSL bindings. Users of pyOpenSSL
versions older than 22.0 will need to upgrade.
* Added
:class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.ciphers.algorithms.AES128` and
:class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.ciphers.algorithms.AES256` classes.
These classes do not replace
:class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.ciphers.algorithms.AES` (which
allows all AES key lengths), but are intended for applications where
developers want to be explicit about key length.

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