OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 2002/04/25 06:29:27 $
+ ______________ $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 0.9.2b: 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
- and other 64-bit platforms
+ 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:
- Checked on Result
- alpha-cc (Tru64 version 4.0) works
- linux-alpha+bwx-gcc doesn't work. Reported by
- Sean O'Riordain <seanpor@acm.org>
- OpenBSD-sparc64 doesn't work. BN_mod_mul breaks.
+ http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/297918/2002-10-27/2002-11-02/0
- Needs checked on
- [add platforms here]
+ The problem report that mentions this is:
- - BN_mod_mul verification fails for mips3-sgi-irix
- unless configured with no-asm
+ https://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=343
AVAILABLE PATCHES
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 parameters should be omitted (not NULL) with id-dsa-with-sha1 OID
- in X.509 signatures
-
- o inappropriate AlgorithmIdentifier used in S/MIME signatures
- (key type rather than not signature algorithm)
-
o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.