2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2002/02/28 22:06:26 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development...
8 o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001
9 o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001
10 o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001
11 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
12 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
13 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
14 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
15 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
16 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
17 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
18 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
22 o BIGNUM library failures on 64-bit platforms (0.9.7-dev):
23 - BN_mod_mul verificiation (bc) fails for solaris64-sparcv9-cc
26 alpha-cc (Tru64 version 4.0) works
27 linux-alpha+bwx-gcc doesn't work. Reported by
28 Sean O'Riordain <seanpor@acm.org>
39 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
40 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
42 EVP cipher enhancement.
43 Enhanced certificate chain verification.
44 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
45 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
46 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
47 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
48 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
49 o Richard is currently working on:
51 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
52 functionality that is currently missing).
53 Shared library support for VMS.
54 Kerberos 5 authentication
60 o An (optional) countermeasure against the predictable-IV CBC
61 weakness in SSL/TLS should be added; see
62 http://www.openssl.org/~bodo/tls-cbc.txt
64 o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
66 o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
70 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
72 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
73 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
74 src/Configure. It confuses.
75 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
76 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
77 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
78 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
79 which are currently in Configure.
81 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
82 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
83 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
84 solution to be really simple.
86 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
87 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
88 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
90 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
91 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
96 o Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
97 where the callback function can request that the function be aborted.
98 [Gregory Stark <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
102 Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
103 Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
105 See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
106 as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
108 Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
109 http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could