2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2002/12/27 15:06:13 $
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 with MIT Kerberos - PASSED
21 Windows 2000 (Cygwin) - ERROR
23 SCO OpenServer, Unixware? - ERROR
24 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta5: Released on December 5th, 2002
25 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta4: Released on November 19th, 2002
26 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta3: Released on July 30th, 2002
27 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta2: Released on June 16th, 2002
28 o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta1: Released on June 1st, 2002
29 o OpenSSL 0.9.6h: Released on December 5th, 2002
30 o OpenSSL 0.9.6g: Released on August 9th, 2002
31 o OpenSSL 0.9.6f: Released on August 8th, 2002
32 o OpenSSL 0.9.6e: Released on July 30th, 2002
33 o OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Released on May 9th, 2002
34 o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001
35 o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001
36 o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001
37 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
38 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
39 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
40 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
41 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
42 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
43 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
44 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
46 [See also http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html]
51 PR 343 mentions that scrubbing memory with 'memset(ptr, 0, n)' may
52 be optimized away in modern compilers. This is definitely not good
53 and needs to be fixed immediately. The formula to use is presented
56 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/297918/2002-10-27/2002-11-02/0
58 The problem report that mentions this is:
60 https://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=343
68 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
69 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
71 EVP cipher enhancement.
72 Enhanced certificate chain verification.
73 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
74 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
75 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
76 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
77 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
78 o Richard is currently working on:
80 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
81 functionality that is currently missing).
82 Shared library support for VMS.
83 Kerberos 5 authentication (Heimdal)
88 o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
90 o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
94 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
96 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
97 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
98 src/Configure. It confuses.
99 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
100 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
101 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
102 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
103 which are currently in Configure.
105 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
106 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
107 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
108 solution to be really simple.
110 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
111 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
112 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
114 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
115 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
120 o Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
121 where the callback function can request that the function be aborted.
122 [Gregory Stark <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
126 Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
127 Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
129 See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
130 as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
132 Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
133 http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could