2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2002/12/27 08:09:11 $
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 2000 (Cygwin) - ERROR
22 SCO OpenServer, Unixware? - ERROR
23 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta5: Released on December 5th, 2002
24 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta4: Released on November 19th, 2002
25 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta3: Released on July 30th, 2002
26 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta2: Released on June 16th, 2002
27 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta1: Released on June 1st, 2002
28 o OpenSSL 0.9.6h: Released on December 5th, 2002
29 o OpenSSL 0.9.6g: Released on August 9th, 2002
30 o OpenSSL 0.9.6f: Released on August 8th, 2002
31 o OpenSSL 0.9.6e: Released on July 30th, 2002
32 o OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Released on May 9th, 2002
33 o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001
34 o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001
35 o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001
36 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
37 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
38 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
39 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
40 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
41 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
42 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
43 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
45 [See also http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html]
49 o BN_mod_mul verification fails for mips3-sgi-irix
50 unless configured with no-asm
53 PR 343 mentions that scrubbing memory with 'memset(ptr, 0, n)' may
54 be optimized away in modern compilers. This is definitely not good
55 and needs to be fixed immediately. The formula to use is presented
58 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/297918/2002-10-27/2002-11-02/0
60 The problem report that mentions this is:
62 https://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=343
70 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
71 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
73 EVP cipher enhancement.
74 Enhanced certificate chain verification.
75 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
76 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
77 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
78 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
79 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
80 o Richard is currently working on:
82 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
83 functionality that is currently missing).
84 Shared library support for VMS.
85 Kerberos 5 authentication (Heimdal)
90 o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
92 o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
96 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
98 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
99 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
100 src/Configure. It confuses.
101 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
102 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
103 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
104 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
105 which are currently in Configure.
107 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
108 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
109 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
110 solution to be really simple.
112 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
113 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
114 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
116 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
117 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
122 o Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
123 where the callback function can request that the function be aborted.
124 [Gregory Stark <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
128 Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
129 Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
131 See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
132 as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
134 Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
135 http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could