2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2002/12/07 19:59:54 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.8: Under development...
8 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta5: Released on December 5th, 2002
9 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta4: Released on November 19th, 2002
10 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta3: Released on July 30th, 2002
11 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta2: Released on June 16th, 2002
12 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta1: Released on June 1st, 2002
13 o OpenSSL 0.9.6h: Released on December 5th, 2002
14 o OpenSSL 0.9.6g: Released on August 9th, 2002
15 o OpenSSL 0.9.6f: Released on August 8th, 2002
16 o OpenSSL 0.9.6e: Released on July 30th, 2002
17 o OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Released on May 9th, 2002
18 o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001
19 o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001
20 o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001
21 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
22 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
23 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
24 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
25 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
26 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
27 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
28 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
30 [See also http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html]
34 o BN_mod_mul verification fails for mips3-sgi-irix
35 unless configured with no-asm
38 PR 343 mentions that scrubbing memory with 'memset(ptr, 0, n)' may
39 be optimized away in modern compilers. This is definitely not good
40 and needs to be fixed immediately. The formula to use is presented
43 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/297918/2002-10-27/2002-11-02/0
45 The problem report that mentions this is:
47 https://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=343
55 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
56 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
58 EVP cipher enhancement.
59 Enhanced certificate chain verification.
60 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
61 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
62 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
63 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
64 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
65 o Richard is currently working on:
67 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
68 functionality that is currently missing).
69 Shared library support for VMS.
70 Kerberos 5 authentication (Heimdal)
75 o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
77 o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
81 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
83 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
84 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
85 src/Configure. It confuses.
86 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
87 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
88 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
89 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
90 which are currently in Configure.
92 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
93 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
94 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
95 solution to be really simple.
97 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
98 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
99 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
101 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
102 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
107 o Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
108 where the callback function can request that the function be aborted.
109 [Gregory Stark <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
113 Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
114 Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
116 See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
117 as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
119 Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
120 http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could