Security Library 1.16 Release note

Jun 04, 2012 - Author: Sierra Wireless - Version 1.16 - 3006 Views

New Features
Software Release Description
2.1 Software Identification
2.2 Compatibility
Known Restrictions
Interface Modifications
Corrections and Improvements

JamSoftLib: Jamming Detection service is available through AT command interface. This library is called by Sample JamSoft and ExtendedAT Application.
WIPSSL: WipSSL provides the ability to retrieve subject fields from peer certificate (Common Name, Country, State/Province name, Locality name, Organization name, Organizational unit name). This feature is available in beta stage.

2. Software Release Description

2.1. Software Identification

Software Identification

1.16.0.201206041340

Libraries & application are only delivered on RVDS EABI compiler

ID	Description (What / When)	Impacted Domain	Impacted Sub Domain
62185	When trying to get the Authority Key Identifier, only the key id is returned by getOpts() API. The issuer authority and serial number entries are not returned.	OTHER	OTHER
55783	If an embedded application makes use of both, Internet library and Security library, then some functions in security library does not get called properly. This is due to availability of same function in Internet library as well.	OTHER	OTHER
53990	There is a limitation of the SSL buffer size and this impacts communicating with older Microsoft® applications that use non-standard SSL record sizes.	OTHER	OTHER
52725	With some URLs two WIP_CEV_PEER_CLOSE events are received instead of one, after getting an HTTPS page through the GPRS bearer.	OTHER	OTHER
52689	An unwanted error is received when trying to get a page via HTTP over SSL, without specifying the protocol used in the URL.	OTHER	OTHER

This section lists the interfaces modifications introduced in Security Library 1.16.

API	Comment
wip_sslOption_e	New values available for extracting all available information from Peer certificate. Specifically “CommonName”.
wip_SSLReleaseSession2	New API is provided to release the handle on a SSL session. This API accepts a pointer to handle on the session used by the SSL channel as its argument.API wip_SSLReleaseSession(), which was used earlier for this purpose now makes a call to this new API.

ID	Description (What / When)	Impacted Domain	Impacted Sub Domain	Fixed in
56365	Embedded module gets reset when function wip_SSLReleaseSession() is called second time, after releasing a session successfully in first attempt.	OTHER	OTHER	1.16

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