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3 ______________ $Date: 2002/04/17 12:28:37 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development...
8 o OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Feature freeze, beta1 April 17th, 2002
9 o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001
10 o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001
11 o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001
12 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
13 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
14 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
15 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
16 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
17 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
18 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
19 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
29 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
30 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
32 EVP cipher enhancement.
33 Enhanced certificate chain verification.
34 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
35 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
36 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
37 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
38 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
39 o Richard is currently working on:
41 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
42 functionality that is currently missing).
43 Shared library support for VMS.
44 Kerberos 5 authentication
50 o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
52 o Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated
53 or an error is reported
55 o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
59 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
61 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
62 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
63 src/Configure. It confuses.
64 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
65 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
66 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
67 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
68 which are currently in Configure.
70 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
71 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
72 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
73 solution to be really simple.
75 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
76 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
77 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
79 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
80 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
84 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
85 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
86 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
87 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
88 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
89 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
90 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
91 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
94 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
95 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
103 Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
104 Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
106 See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
107 as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
109 Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
110 http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could