Released: Feb 28, 2023

Updates in 5.5

Funktionen

• Security and performance updates of third-party components.
• Improved all language bindings and updates for the latest language versions including Microsoft .NET 6/7, PHP 8.1/8.2, Perl 5.34/5.36 and Ruby 3.1.
• Added support for arm64/x86_64 bindings on Apple macOS.

Released: Nov 19, 2021

Updates in 5.4 (maintenance release)

Funktionen

• Added support for Microsoft Windows 11.
• Removed support for Microsoft Windows 7.

Released: May 8, 2020

Updates in 5.4

Funktionen

• Support of proxy servers for network access.
• Does not create a separate PDF update for the DSS since some signature validation tools complained that 'Signature doesn't cover whole document'.
• Enables transport compression for CRLs and OCSP to accelerate network transmission.
• Adds workaround for misconfigured CAs when downloading CRLs.

Released: Sep 7, 2018

Updates in 5.3

Funktionen

• Support for signing with Amazon CloudHSM.
• PKCS#11 improvements for common security tokens.
• Support PSS encoding scheme for RSA signatures via PKCS#11.
• Improvements for LTV signatures in certain usage scenarios with OCSP responders.
• Updated language bindings and platform support.
• pCOS interface 12 with support for identifying upcoming ISO standards.
• Added the pCOS command-line tool.
• Improved PDF optimization.

Fehlerkorrekturen

• Bug fixes for Unicode support in digital ID passwords and...

Released: Feb 23, 2017

Updates in 5.2

Funktionen

Several enhancements for digital signatures and certificate security including the following:

• Supports EMSA-PSS encoding scheme for RSA signatures.
• Supports OAEP for RSA certificate security.
• Reject input documents with certification signatures and permissions=nochanges unless the "sacrifice" option has been supplied to avoid breaking existing certification signature.
• No longer requires "conformance=extended" for NIST-15 elliptic curves other than P-256/P-384/P-521 since these are...

Released: May 24, 2016

Updates in V5.1

Funktionen

• Updated time-stamping support according to RFC 5816 (SigningCertificateV2/ESSCertIDv2).
• Optimized file size and processing speed for generating signatures.
• Timing options for OCSP.
• Support for indirect CRLs.
• Made CRL retrieval more robust, e.g. unexpected HTTP headers.
• Workarounds in the PKCS#11 engine to handle behavior of certain token models.
• PKCS#11 improvements for multi-threaded signing applications.
• Support for signing with a Hardware Security Module (HSM).
• Create PAdES/CAdES...