[Botan-announce] Botan 1.1.8

[Jack L. <ll...@ac...>]

Hello,

Botan 1.1.8 was released today, fixing several bugs in the X.509 code. In
particular, there were several omissions or problems with how the
certificate path validation algorithm worked before this release. (A new
testsuite to test the path validation is available on the downloads page).
There were also problems handling expiration dates > January, 2038, which
have been fixed. The validation algorithm now returns an error code which
states the nature of the problem found (signature error, cert expired,
etc).

Lastly, lots of previously hard-coded policy decisions (mainly related to
what extensions to included, and whether or not to mark them critical) have
now been made configurable at run time.

-Jack