OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 2001/09/25 11:01:14 $
+ ______________ $Date: 2002/12/30 23:54:11 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
- o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development...
+ 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 0.9.2b: 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 BIGNUM library failures on 64-bit platforms (0.9.7-dev):
- - BN_mod_mul verificiation (bc) fails for solaris64-sparcv9-cc
+ 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 IA-64 (a.k.a. Intel Itanium) public-key operation performance
- patch for Linux is available for download at
- http://www.openssl.org/~appro/096b.linux-ia64.diff. As URL
- suggests the patch is relative to OpenSSL 0.9.6b.
+ o
IN PROGRESS
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
+ Kerberos 5 authentication (Heimdal)
Constification
- OCSP
NEEDS PATCH
- o All 'openssl' subprograms taking '-des' and '-des3' options should
- include AES support (0.9.7-dev)
-
- o 'openssl speed' should include AES support (0.9.7-dev)
-
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
which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
libcrypto)
-
- 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.
-
- 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
-
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 <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
+
o SRP in TLS.
[wished by:
Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,