Released: Nov 20, 2017

Updates in 2017 R6.1

Features

• FTP: Added workaround for FTP servers that announce their IP as 0.0.0.0.
• SSH: Added SshPublicKey.LoadPublicKeys method that supports loading OpenSSH's 'authorized_keys' files.
• Cryptography: Enhanced custom CRL downloader for .NET Compact Framework to handle all 3xx redirect codes.
• Cryptography: Enhanced Certificate.LoadDer to handle files with multiple certificates (loads the first one).
• Cryptography: Added 'params' to CertificateInfo.SetExtendedUsave/SetAlternativeHostnames methods...

Released: Oct 25, 2017

Updates in 2017 R6

Features

• All: Added support for DSA key generation on .NET Core on Windows.
• TLS/SSL: Added support for AES/GCM to TLS.
• TLS/SSL: Added TlsCipherSuite.Weak enum.
• Cryptography: Added support for RSAES-OAEP encryption to EnvelopedData/RecipientInfo objects (CMS / PKCS #7).
• Cryptography: Added support for RSAES-OAEP encryption to Encrypt/Decrypt methods in Certificate and AsymmetricKeyAlgorithm classes.
• Cryptography: Added support for DSA key generation on .NET Core 1.1 on Windows.
• Cryptography...

Released: Sep 12, 2017

Updates in 2017 R5

Features

• Added support for .NET Core 1.1 and 2.0 on Windows.
• FTP: Added Ftp.Settings.ForceSimpleDirectoryExists to force Ftp.DirectoryExists method to use just CWD/PWD commands.
• Proxy: Added support for "http://" URLs in Proxy.Host.
• Cryptography: Added HTTP redirect handling to CRL downloader on .NET Compact Framework.
• Cryptography: Added workaround to enable SHA-2 on legacy operating systems (such as pre-SP3 Windows XP).
• Cryptography: Using ASN.1 GeneralizedTime for dates greater than...

Released: Aug 4, 2017

Updates in 2017 R4.1

Features

• FTP: Added workaround for BulletProof FTP Server's invalid response to MLSD command.
• Cryptography: Enhanced RSAES-OAEP support.
• Cryptography: Added CertificateStore.Add method (replacement for deprecated CertificateStore.AddCertificate method).
• Cryptography: Added KeySetOptions.PreferCng and KeySetOptions.AlwaysCng options.

Fixes

• Cryptography: Fixed AsymmetricKeyAlgorithm.Dispose method.
• Cryptography: Fixed AsymmetricKeyAlgorithm.CreateFrom method (always honors the ownsAlgorithm...

Released: Jun 30, 2017

Updates in 2017 R4

Features

• Support for CNG Key Storage Providers - Rebex Certificate class now fully supports RSA, DSA and ECDSA private keys stored in Windows CNG Key Storage Providers.
• Native support for Brainpool (P-256 R1, P-384 R1, P-512 R1) and secp256k1 elliptic curves on Windows 10 - Windows 10 (and Windows Server 2016) added native support for additional Elliptic Curve DSA (ECDSA) / Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) curves including secp256k1, Brainpool P-256 R1, P-384 R1 and P-512 R1, and Rebex...

Released: May 9, 2017

Updates in 2017 R3

Features

• Added NuGet packages.
• Added experimental support for .NET Core 1.1 and .NET Standard 1.5.
• Added workaround for a breaking change in Exception.Data on recent Xamarin.Android.
• Added support for .NET Framework 4.7.
• Cryptography: Custom certificate validator now behaves like MS CryptoAPI validator when dealing with RSA key sizes shorter than 1024 bits; MD5 signature hash algorithm is always considered to be weak for non-root certificates.
• Cryptography: Added support for .PFX/.P12 saving on...

Released: Mar 22, 2017

Updates in 2017 R2

Features

• Support for Visual Studio 2017.
• FTP: Added Ftp.Settings.SkipDuplicateItems option (set to true by default).
• Networking: Added logging of environment and platform information.
• Networking: Enhanced target address logging when connecting.
• Networking: HTTP core provides better inner exceptions on errors.
• Networking: Legacy members of custom transport layer API moved from ISocket to ISocketExt.
• SSH: Enhanced cipher mismatch error reporting during SSH negotiation to produce informative error...

Released: Feb 23, 2017

Updates in 2017 R1

Features

• Networking: Added workaround for broken NetworkSessionException.Data on recent Xamarin.iOS.
• Networking: TlsSocket.Timeout modifies the underlying ISocket.Timeout as well now.
• Networking: Slightly enhanced certificate rejection reason reporting in TLS.
• Proxy: Enhanced ProxySocket connection initialization.
• SSH: Added support for saving private keys in new OpenSSH key format (Base64-encoded keys with "BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY" header).
• SSH: Added support for "rsa-sha2-256" and "rsa-sha...

Released: Dec 20, 2016

Updates in 2016 R3

Features

• FTP: Added Ftp.GetChecksum methods to replace legacy Ftp.GetRemoteChecksum methods.
• FTP: Added special handling for another variant of NOOP response during transfer.
• Networking: Enhanced and optimized HTTP/HTTPS client core.
• Networking: Connect/Listen methods on ProxySocket/TlsSocket objects now throw an exception when called twice on the same socket.
• Networking: Added SocketInformation constructor.
• SSH: Added support for "ecdh-sha2-nistp256", "ecdh-sha2-nistp384", "ecdh-sha2-nistp...

Released: Aug 26, 2016

Updates in 2016 R2.2

Features

• SSH: Enhanced handling of errors in FingerprintCheck event handlers.
• Cryptography: Added CheckCertificate/GetIssuingDistributionPoint methods to CertificateRevocationList class and ValidateRevocationList method to Certificate class.
• Cryptography: Added support for certificates with private keys stored in CNG Key Storage Providers.
• Cryptography: Enhanced SHA-2 support check on .NET Compact Framework.

Fixes

• SSL: Fixed a rare issue in abbreviated TLS/SSL negotiation handling.
• Cryptography...