2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2002/12/24 10:38:05 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.8: Under development...
8 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta6: Released on December 17th, 2002
9 Solaris on Sun Ultra (Workshop 6 update 1) - PASSED with warnings
11 Redhat 8 on i386 (gcc 3.2) - PASSED
12 Debian GNU/Linux on i386 (kernel 2.4.19, gxx 2.95.4) - PASSED
13 Windows CE on HPC Pro 2.11 - PASSED
14 Windows CE on HPC 2000 - PASSED
15 Windows CE on PocketPC 2000 - PASSED
16 Windows CE on PocketPC 2002 - PASSED
17 VMS (>=6.0 on any platform, DEC C) - ERROR
20 Windows XP, with Kerberos 5 - ERROR
21 Windows 2000 (Cygwin) - ERROR (PR: 404)
22 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta5: Released on December 5th, 2002
23 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta4: Released on November 19th, 2002
24 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta3: Released on July 30th, 2002
25 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta2: Released on June 16th, 2002
26 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta1: Released on June 1st, 2002
27 o OpenSSL 0.9.6h: Released on December 5th, 2002
28 o OpenSSL 0.9.6g: Released on August 9th, 2002
29 o OpenSSL 0.9.6f: Released on August 8th, 2002
30 o OpenSSL 0.9.6e: Released on July 30th, 2002
31 o OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Released on May 9th, 2002
32 o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001
33 o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001
34 o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001
35 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
36 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
37 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
38 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
39 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
40 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
41 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
42 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
44 [See also http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html]
48 o BN_mod_mul verification fails for mips3-sgi-irix
49 unless configured with no-asm
52 PR 343 mentions that scrubbing memory with 'memset(ptr, 0, n)' may
53 be optimized away in modern compilers. This is definitely not good
54 and needs to be fixed immediately. The formula to use is presented
57 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/297918/2002-10-27/2002-11-02/0
59 The problem report that mentions this is:
61 https://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=343
69 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
70 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
72 EVP cipher enhancement.
73 Enhanced certificate chain verification.
74 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
75 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
76 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
77 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
78 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
79 o Richard is currently working on:
81 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
82 functionality that is currently missing).
83 Shared library support for VMS.
84 Kerberos 5 authentication (Heimdal)
87 Attribute Certificate support
88 Certificate Pair support
89 Storage Engines (primarly an LDAP storage engine)
90 Certificate chain validation with full RFC 3280 compatibility
94 o 0.9.8-dev: COMPLEMENTOFALL and COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT do not
95 handle ECCdraft cipher suites correctly.
97 o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
99 o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
103 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
105 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
106 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
107 src/Configure. It confuses.
108 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
109 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
110 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
111 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
112 which are currently in Configure.
114 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
115 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
116 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
117 solution to be really simple.
119 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
120 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
121 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
123 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
124 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
129 o Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
130 where the callback function can request that the function be aborted.
131 [Gregory Stark <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
135 Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
136 Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
138 See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
139 as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
141 Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
142 http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could