2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2002/11/21 22:39:25 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.8: Under development...
8 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta4: Released on November 19th, 2002
9 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta3: Released on July 30th, 2002
10 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta2: Released on June 16th, 2002
11 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta1: Released on June 1st, 2002
12 o OpenSSL 0.9.6g: Released on August 9th, 2002
13 o OpenSSL 0.9.6f: Released on August 8th, 2002
14 o OpenSSL 0.9.6e: Released on July 30th, 2002
15 o OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Released on May 9th, 2002
16 o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001
17 o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001
18 o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001
19 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
20 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
21 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
22 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
23 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
24 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
25 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
26 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
28 [See also http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html]
32 o BN_mod_mul verification fails for mips3-sgi-irix
33 unless configured with no-asm
36 PR 343 mentions that scrubbing memory with 'memset(ptr, 0, n)' may
37 be optimized away in modern compilers. This is definitely not good
38 and needs to be fixed immediately. The formula to use is presented
41 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/297918/2002-10-27/2002-11-02/0
43 The problem report that mentions this is:
45 https://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=343
53 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
54 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
56 EVP cipher enhancement.
57 Enhanced certificate chain verification.
58 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
59 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
60 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
61 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
62 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
63 o Richard is currently working on:
65 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
66 functionality that is currently missing).
67 Shared library support for VMS.
68 Kerberos 5 authentication
74 o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
76 o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
80 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
82 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
83 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
84 src/Configure. It confuses.
85 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
86 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
87 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
88 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
89 which are currently in Configure.
91 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
92 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
93 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
94 solution to be really simple.
96 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
97 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
98 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
100 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
101 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
106 o Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
107 where the callback function can request that the function be aborted.
108 [Gregory Stark <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
112 Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
113 Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
115 See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
116 as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
118 Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
119 http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could