OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
__ $Date: 2002/06/16 11:33:59 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
o OpenSSL 0.9.8: Under development...
o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta1: Released on June 16th, 2002
o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta1: Released on June 1st, 2002
o OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Released on May9th, 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 August09th, 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 BN_mod_mul verification fails for mips3-sgi-irix
unless configured with no-asm
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
Constification
OCSP
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
o SRP in TLS.
[wished by:
Dj [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Tom Holroyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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.
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