2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2002/02/20 17:40:33 $
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 All 'openssl' subprograms taking '-des' and '-des3' options should
65 include AES support (0.9.7-dev)
67 o 'openssl speed' should include AES support (0.9.7-dev)
69 o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
71 o Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated
72 or an error is reported
74 o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
78 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
80 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
81 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
82 src/Configure. It confuses.
83 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
84 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
85 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
86 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
87 which are currently in Configure.
89 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
90 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
91 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
92 solution to be really simple.
94 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
95 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
96 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
98 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
99 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
103 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
104 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
105 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
106 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
107 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
108 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
109 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
110 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
113 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
114 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
120 o Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
121 where the callback function can request that the function be aborted.
122 [Gregory Stark <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
126 Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
127 Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
129 See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
130 as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
132 Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
133 http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could