2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2003/02/19 12:33:52 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.8: Under development...
8 o OpenSSL 0.9.7a: Released on February 19th, 2003
9 o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Released on December 31st, 2002
10 o OpenSSL 0.9.6i: Released on February 19th, 2003
11 o OpenSSL 0.9.6h: Released on December 5th, 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]
33 PR 343 mentions that scrubbing memory with 'memset(ptr, 0, n)' may
34 be optimized away in modern compilers. This is definitely not good
35 and needs to be fixed immediately. The formula to use is presented
38 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/297918/2002-10-27/2002-11-02/0
40 The problem report that mentions this is:
42 https://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=343
50 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
51 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
53 EVP cipher enhancement.
54 Enhanced certificate chain verification.
55 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
56 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
57 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
58 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
59 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
60 o Richard is currently working on:
62 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
63 functionality that is currently missing).
64 Shared library support for VMS.
65 Kerberos 5 authentication (Heimdal)
70 o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
72 o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
76 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
78 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
79 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
80 src/Configure. It confuses.
81 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
82 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
83 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
84 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
85 which are currently in Configure.
87 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
88 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
89 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
90 solution to be really simple.
92 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
93 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
94 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
96 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
97 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
102 o Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
103 where the callback function can request that the function be aborted.
104 [Gregory Stark <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
108 Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
109 Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
111 See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
112 as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
114 Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
115 http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could