OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at ______________ $Date: 2002/12/30 23:54:11 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE o OpenSSL 0.9.8: Under development... o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Released on December 31st, 2002 o OpenSSL 0.9.6h: Released on December 5th, 2002 o OpenSSL 0.9.6g: Released on August 9th, 2002 o OpenSSL 0.9.6f: Released on August 8th, 2002 o OpenSSL 0.9.6e: Released on July 30th, 2002 o OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Released on May 9th, 2002 o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001 o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001 o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998 [See also http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html] RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS o [2002-11-21] PR 343 mentions that scrubbing memory with 'memset(ptr, 0, n)' may be optimized away in modern compilers. This is definitely not good and needs to be fixed immediately. The formula to use is presented in: http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/297918/2002-10-27/2002-11-02/0 The problem report that mentions this is: https://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=343 AVAILABLE PATCHES o IN PROGRESS o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order): ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement. OCSP EVP cipher enhancement. Enhanced certificate chain verification. Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation. Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code). Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions. o Geoff and Richard are currently working on: ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others). o Richard is currently working on: UI (User Interface) UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level functionality that is currently missing). Shared library support for VMS. Kerberos 5 authentication (Heimdal) Constification NEEDS PATCH o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date. OPEN ISSUES o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing: 1. The config vs. Configure scripts It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs. src/Configure. It confuses. Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks which are currently in Configure. o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the solution to be really simple. Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache into the OpenSSL Configure script. Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake, which apparently is not flexible enough to generate libcrypto) WISHES o Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?] where the callback function can request that the function be aborted. [Gregory Stark , ] o SRP in TLS. [wished by: Dj , Tom Wu , Tom Holroyd ] See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/. Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could be useful.