OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 2002/12/07 20:02:20 $
+ ______________ $Date: 2002/12/30 23:54:11 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
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
- Debian GNU/Linux (kernel version 2.4.19, gcc 2.95.4) - PASSED
- 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 0.9.7: 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
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
Shared library support for VMS.
Kerberos 5 authentication (Heimdal)
Constification
- Attribute Certificate support
- Certificate Pair support
- Storage Engines (primarly an LDAP storage engine)
NEEDS PATCH
- o 0.9.8-dev: COMPLEMENTOFALL and COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT do not
- handle ECCdraft cipher suites correctly.
-
o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.