From 4903139bc43436d8684cc837a399cc6d92d6440b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Cosgrove Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 12:20:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add security entry to ChangeLog for AES-NI Signed-off-by: Tom Cosgrove --- ChangeLog.d/aes-ni-security-notice.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ChangeLog.d/aes-ni-security-notice.txt diff --git a/ChangeLog.d/aes-ni-security-notice.txt b/ChangeLog.d/aes-ni-security-notice.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ccf8c9a67f --- /dev/null +++ b/ChangeLog.d/aes-ni-security-notice.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Security + * MBEDTLS_AESNI_C, which is enabled by default, was silently ignored on + builds that couldn't compile the GCC-style assembly implementation + (most notably builds with Visual Studio), leaving them vulnerable to + timing side-channel attacks. There is now an intrinsics-based AES-NI + implementation as a fallback for when the assembly one cannot be used.