OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 2001/05/30 14:59:14 $
+ ______________ $Date: 2002/12/07 19:59:54 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
- o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development...
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.8: Under development...
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta5: Released on December 5th, 2002
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta4: Released on November 19th, 2002
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta3: Released on July 30th, 2002
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta2: Released on June 16th, 2002
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta1: Released on June 1st, 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 0.9.2b: 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 BN_mod_mul verification fails for mips3-sgi-irix
+ unless configured with no-asm
+
+ 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):
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.
- OCSP
- Kerberos 5 authentication
+ Kerberos 5 authentication (Heimdal)
Constification
NEEDS PATCH
o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
- o OpenSSL_0_9_6-stable:
- #include <openssl/e_os.h> in exported header files is illegal since
- e_os.h is suitable only for library-internal use.
-
- o Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated
- or an error is reported
+ o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
OPEN ISSUES
- o crypto/ex_data.c is not really thread-safe and so must be used
- with care (e.g., extra locking where necessary, or don't call
- CRYPTO_get_ex_new_index once multiple threads exist).
- The current API is not suitable for everything that it pretends
- to offer.
-
o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
1. The config vs. Configure scripts
which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
libcrypto)
+ WISHES
- o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
- totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
- with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
- Net::SSLeay package we can find under
- http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
- longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
- to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
- Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
- us.
+ 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 <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
- Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
- and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
- to date.
- Paul +1
+ o SRP in TLS.
+ [wished by:
+ Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
+ Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
- WISHES
+ See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
+ as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
- o SRP
- [wished by Dj <derek@yo.net> and Tom Wu <?@?>]
+ Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
+ http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could
+ be useful.