On Wed April 1 2009, Geoff Thorpe wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 April 2009 09:05:05 Thomas J. Hruska wrote:
> > The problem is that I was under the distinct impression 0.9.9 was the
> > next release and 1.0.0 was a pipe dream a few years down the road (at
> > least).
> 
> The choice of a 1.0 release is to clearly mark the fact that openssl is 
> shifting to a common base platform, namely Java. Platform independence 
> is going to make future development much easier, but represents a 
> significant enough change to warrant the new major version. This 
> decision has been driven by increasing demands to support as-yet 
> unsupported platforms; primarily Amiga, Z80, Casiotone, and Windows.
> 

I realize that progress in the security field is slow - but will this
new release support rfc1149?
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149

That was published back in '90 - it should be well vetted by now.

Mike
> Regards,
> Geoff
> 


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