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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
  • 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
  • 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 cipher GOST 28147
  • Hash function GOST 34.11-94
  • DLIES
  • 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

Deprecated Headers

PBKDF headers: bcrypt_pbkdf.h, pbkdf1.h, pbkdf2.h, pgp_s2k.h, scrypt.h,

Internal implementation headers - seemingly no reason for applications to use: curve_gfp.h, mdx_hash.h, reducer.h, scan_name.h, tls_algos.h, tls_magic.h, xmss_hash.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. compiler.h, cpuid.h, http_util.h, uuid.h,

Other API deprecations

  • 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 the TLS::Callbacks interface.
  • The Buffered_Computation base class. In a future release the class will be removed, and all of member functions instead declared directly on MessageAuthenticationCode and HashFunction. So this only affects you if you are directly referencing Botan::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.