2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2002/12/05 23:01:17 $
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 Debian GNU/Linux (kernel version 2.4.19, gcc 2.95.4) - PASSED
11 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta3: Released on July 30th, 2002
12 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta2: Released on June 16th, 2002
13 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta1: Released on June 1st, 2002
14 o OpenSSL 0.9.6h: Released on December 5th, 2002
15 o OpenSSL 0.9.6g: Released on August 9th, 2002
16 o OpenSSL 0.9.6f: Released on August 8th, 2002
17 o OpenSSL 0.9.6e: Released on July 30th, 2002
18 o OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Released on May 9th, 2002
19 o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001
20 o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001
21 o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001
22 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
23 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
24 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
25 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
26 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
27 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
28 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
29 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
31 [See also http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html]
35 o BN_mod_mul verification fails for mips3-sgi-irix
36 unless configured with no-asm
39 PR 343 mentions that scrubbing memory with 'memset(ptr, 0, n)' may
40 be optimized away in modern compilers. This is definitely not good
41 and needs to be fixed immediately. The formula to use is presented
44 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/297918/2002-10-27/2002-11-02/0
46 The problem report that mentions this is:
48 https://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=343
56 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
57 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
59 EVP cipher enhancement.
60 Enhanced certificate chain verification.
61 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
62 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
63 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
64 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
65 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
66 o Richard is currently working on:
68 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
69 functionality that is currently missing).
70 Shared library support for VMS.
71 Kerberos 5 authentication
77 o 0.9.8-dev: COMPLEMENTOFALL and COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT do not
78 handle ECCdraft cipher suites correctly.
80 o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
82 o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
86 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
88 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
89 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
90 src/Configure. It confuses.
91 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
92 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
93 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
94 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
95 which are currently in Configure.
97 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
98 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
99 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
100 solution to be really simple.
102 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
103 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
104 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
106 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
107 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
112 o Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
113 where the callback function can request that the function be aborted.
114 [Gregory Stark <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
118 Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
119 Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
121 See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
122 as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
124 Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
125 http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could