Allow RSA key-generation to specify an arbitrary public exponent. Jelte
proposed the change and submitted the patch, I jiggled it slightly and
adjusted the other parts of openssl that were affected.
PR: 867
Submitted by: Jelte Jansen
Reviewed by: Geoff Thorpe
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 14dd29a..768d010 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
Changes between 0.9.7c and 0.9.8 [xx XXX xxxx]
+ *) The new 'RSA_generate_key_ex' function now takes a BIGNUM for the public
+ exponent rather than 'unsigned long'. There is a corresponding change to
+ the new 'rsa_keygen' element of the RSA_METHOD structure.
+ [Jelte Jansen, Geoff Thorpe]
+
*) Reduce the chances of duplicate issuer name and serial numbers (in
violation of RFC3280) using the OpenSSL certificate creation utilities.
This is done by creating a random 64 bit value for the initial serial
