Deprecated Features¶
Certain functionality is deprecated and is likely to be removed in a future major release.
To help warn users, macros are used to annotate deprecated functions
and headers. These warnings are enabled by default, but can be
disabled by defining the macro BOTAN_NO_DEPRECATED_WARNINGS
prior
to including any Botan headers.
Warning
Not all of the functionality which is currently deprecated has an associated warning.
If you are using something which is currently deprecated and there doesn’t seem to be an obvious alternative, contact the developers to explain your use case if you want to make sure your code continues to work.
TLS Protocol Deprecations¶
The following TLS protocol features are deprecated and will be removed in a future major release:
Support for TLSv1.0/v1.1 and DTLS v1.0
All support for DSA ciphersuites/certificates
Support for point compression in TLS. This is supported in v1.2 but removed in v1.3. For simplicity it will be removed in v1.2 also.
Support for using SHA-1 to sign TLS v1.2 ServerKeyExchange.
All CBC mode ciphersuites. This includes all available 3DES and SEED ciphersuites. This implies also removing Encrypt-then-MAC extension.
All ciphersuites using DH key exchange (DHE-DSS, DHE-RSA, DHE-PSK, anon DH)
Support for renegotiation in TLS v1.2
All ciphersuites using static RSA key exchange
All anonymous (DH/ECDH) ciphersuites. This does not include PSK and ECDHE-PSK, which will be retained.
SRP ciphersuites. This is implied by the removal of CBC mode, since all available SRP ciphersuites use CBC. To avoid use of obsolete ciphers, it would be better to instead perform a standard TLS negotiation, then a PAKE authentication within (and bound to) the TLS channel.
OCB ciphersuites using 128-bit keys
Deprecated Functionality¶
This section lists cryptographic functionality which will be removed in a future major release.
Block ciphers CAST-256, GOST 28147, Kasumi, MISTY1, DESX, XTEA, Noekeon
Hash functions GOST 34.11-94, Tiger, MD4
X9.42 KDF
DLIES
MCEIES
CBC-MAC
PBKDF1 key derivation
GCM support for 64-bit tags
Weak or rarely used ECC builtin groups including “secp160k1”, “secp160r1”, “secp160r2”, “secp192k1”, “secp224k1”, “brainpool160r1”, “brainpool192r1”, “brainpool224r1”, “brainpool320r1”, “x962_p192v2”, “x962_p192v3”, “x962_p239v1”, “x962_p239v2”, “x962_p239v3”.
All built in MODP groups < 2048 bits
Support for explicit ECC curve parameters and ImplicitCA encoded parameters in EC_Group and all users (including X.509 certificates and PKCS#8 private keys).
All pre-created DSA groups
All support for loading, generating or using RSA keys with a public exponent larger than 2**64-1
All or nothing package transform (
package.h
)
Deprecated Headers¶
The following headers and all functionality contained within them are outright deprecated, and will be removed entirely in a future major release. Most are either simply forwarding includes to another (still public) header, or contain functionality which is entirely deprecated. Consult the relevent file for more information.
basefilt.h
,botan.h
,buf_filt.h
,cipher_filter.h
,comp_filter.h
,compiler.h
,init.h
,key_filt.h
,lookup.h
,sm2_enc.h
,threefish.h
,xmss_key_pair.h
The following headers have useful functionality but which we wish to hide from applications to allow easier library evolution. They will be made internal in a future major release, and will only be available to the library itself. In most cases, there is an alternative available. For example instead of using algorithm specific interfaces, use X::create to create the object dynamically.
Block cipher headers (interact using BlockCipher interface):
aes.h
,aria.h
,blowfish.h
,camellia.h
,cascade.h
,cast128.h
,cast256.h
,des.h
,desx.h
,gost_28147.h
,idea.h
,kasumi.h
,lion.h
,misty1.h
,noekeon.h
,seed.h
,serpent.h
,shacal2.h
,sm4.h
,threefish_512.h
,twofish.h
,xtea.h
,Hash function headers (interact using HashFunction interface):
adler32.h
,blake2b.h
,comb4p.h
,crc24.h
,crc32.h
,gost_3411.h
,keccak.h
,md4.h
,md5.h
,par_hash.h
,rmd160.h
,sha160.h
,sha2_32.h
,sha2_64.h
,sha3.h
,shake.h
,skein_512.h
,sm3.h
,streebog.h
,tiger.h
,whrlpool.h
,MAC headers:
cbc_mac.h
,cmac.h
,gmac.h
,hmac.h
,poly1305.h
,siphash.h
,x919_mac.h
,Stream cipher headers:
chacha.h
,ctr.h
,ofb.h
,rc4.h
,salsa20.h
,Cipher mode headers:
cbc.h
,ccm.h
,cfb.h
,chacha20poly1305.h
,eax.h
,gcm.h
,ocb.h
,shake_cipher.h
,siv.h
,xts.h
,KDF headers:
hkdf.h
,kdf1.h
,kdf1_iso18033.h
,kdf2.h
,prf_tls.h
,prf_x942.h
,sp800_108.h
,sp800_56a.h
,sp800_56c.h
,PBKDF headers:
bcrypt_pbkdf.h
,pbkdf1.h
,pbkdf2.h
,pgp_s2k.h
,scrypt.h
,Internal implementation headers - seemingly no reason for applications to use:
blinding.h
,curve_gfp.h
,curve_nistp.h
,datastor.h
,divide.h
,eme.h
,eme_pkcs.h
,eme_raw.h
,emsa.h
,emsa1.h
,emsa_pkcs1.h
,emsa_raw.h
,emsa_x931.h
,gf2m_small_m.h
,ghash.h
,iso9796.h
,keypair.h
,mdx_hash.h
,mode_pad.h
,mul128.h
,oaep.h
,pbes2.h
,polyn_gf2m.h
,pow_mod.h
,pssr.h
,reducer.h
,rfc6979.h
,scan_name.h
,stream_mode.h
,tls_algos.h
,tls_magic.h
,xmss_common_ops.h
,xmss_hash.h
,xmss_index_registry.h
,xmss_tools.h
,Utility headers, nominally useful in applications but not a core part of the library API and most are just sufficient for what the library needs to implement other functionality.
atomic.h
,bswap.h
,charset.h
,compiler.h
,cpuid.h
,http_util.h
,loadstor.h
,locking_allocator.h
,parsing.h
,rotate.h
,secqueue.h
,stl_compatibility.h
,uuid.h
,Merged into other headers:
alg_id.h
,asn1_oid.h
,asn1_str.h
, andasn1_time.h
- useasn1_obj.h
Other API deprecations¶
Directly accessing the member variables of types
calendar_point
,ASN1_Attribute
,AlgorithmIdentifier
, andBER_Object
Using a default output length for “SHAKE-128” and “SHAKE-256”. Instead, always specify the desired output length.
Currently, for certain KDFs, if KDF interface is invoked with a requested output length larger than supported by the KDF, it returns instead a truncated key. In a future major release, instead if KDF is called with a length larger than it supports an exception will be thrown.
The TLS constructors taking
std::function
for callbacks. Instead use theTLS::Callbacks
interface.Using
X509_Certificate::subject_info
andissuer_info
to access any information that is not included in the DN or subject alternative name. Prefer using the specific assessor functions for other data, eg instead ofcert.subject_info("X509.Certificate.serial")
usecert.serial_number()
.The
Buffered_Computation
base class. In a future release the class will be removed, and all of member functions instead declared directly onMessageAuthenticationCode
andHashFunction
. So this only affects you if you are directly referencingBotan::Buffered_Computation
in some way.
Deprecated Build Targets¶
Configuring a build (with
configure.py
) using Python2. In a future major release, Python3 will be required.Platform support for Google Native Client
Support for PathScale and HP compilers