2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2002/12/30 23:56:09 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.8: Under development...
8 o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Released on December 31st, 2002
9 o OpenSSL 0.9.6h: Released on December 5th, 2002
10 o OpenSSL 0.9.6g: Released on August 9th, 2002
11 o OpenSSL 0.9.6f: Released on August 8th, 2002
12 o OpenSSL 0.9.6e: Released on July 30th, 2002
13 o OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Released on May 9th, 2002
14 o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001
15 o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001
16 o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001
17 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
18 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
19 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
20 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
21 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
22 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
23 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
24 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
26 [See also http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html]
31 PR 343 mentions that scrubbing memory with 'memset(ptr, 0, n)' may
32 be optimized away in modern compilers. This is definitely not good
33 and needs to be fixed immediately. The formula to use is presented
36 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/297918/2002-10-27/2002-11-02/0
38 The problem report that mentions this is:
40 https://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=343
48 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
49 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
51 EVP cipher enhancement.
52 Enhanced certificate chain verification.
53 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
54 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
55 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
56 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
57 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
58 o Richard is currently working on:
60 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
61 functionality that is currently missing).
62 Shared library support for VMS.
63 Kerberos 5 authentication (Heimdal)
66 Attribute Certificate support
67 Certificate Pair support
68 Storage Engines (primarly an LDAP storage engine)
69 Certificate chain validation with full RFC 3280 compatibility
73 o 0.9.8-dev: COMPLEMENTOFALL and COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT do not
74 handle ECCdraft cipher suites correctly.
76 o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
78 o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
82 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
84 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
85 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
86 src/Configure. It confuses.
87 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
88 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
89 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
90 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
91 which are currently in Configure.
93 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
94 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
95 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
96 solution to be really simple.
98 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
99 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
100 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
102 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
103 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
108 o Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
109 where the callback function can request that the function be aborted.
110 [Gregory Stark <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
114 Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
115 Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
117 See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
118 as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
120 Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
121 http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could