2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2002/03/11 09:36:04 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development...
8 o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001
9 o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001
10 o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001
11 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
12 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
13 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
14 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
15 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
16 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
17 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
18 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
22 o BIGNUM library failures on 64-bit platforms (0.9.7-dev):
23 - BN_mod_mul verificiation (bc) fails for solaris64-sparcv9-cc
24 and other 64-bit platforms
27 alpha-cc (Tru64 version 4.0) works
28 linux-alpha+bwx-gcc doesn't work. Reported by
29 Sean O'Riordain <seanpor@acm.org>
30 OpenBSD-sparc64 doesn't work. BN_mod_mul breaks.
35 - BN_mod_mul verification fails for mips3-sgi-irix
36 unless configured with no-asm
44 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
45 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
47 EVP cipher enhancement.
48 Enhanced certificate chain verification.
49 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
50 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
51 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
52 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
53 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
54 o Richard is currently working on:
56 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
57 functionality that is currently missing).
58 Shared library support for VMS.
59 Kerberos 5 authentication
65 o An (optional) countermeasure against the predictable-IV CBC
66 weakness in SSL/TLS should be added; see
67 http://www.openssl.org/~bodo/tls-cbc.txt
69 o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
71 o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
75 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
77 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
78 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
79 src/Configure. It confuses.
80 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
81 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
82 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
83 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
84 which are currently in Configure.
86 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
87 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
88 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
89 solution to be really simple.
91 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
92 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
93 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
95 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
96 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
101 o Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
102 where the callback function can request that the function be aborted.
103 [Gregory Stark <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
107 Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
108 Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
110 See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
111 as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
113 Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
114 http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could