STATUS

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   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2005/06/13 03:36:21 $
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   5   DEVELOPMENT STATE
   6
   7     o  OpenSSL 0.9.9:  Under development...
   8     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8-beta5:  Released on June 13th, 2005
   9     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8-beta4:  Released on June 6th, 2005
  10     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8-beta3:  Released on May 31th, 2005
  11     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8-beta2:  Released on May 24th, 2005
  12     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8-beta1:  Released on May 19th, 2005
  13     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7g: Released on April     11th, 2005
  14     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7f: Released on March     22nd, 2005
  15     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7e: Released on October   25th, 2004
  16     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7d: Released on March     17th, 2004
  17     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7c: Released on September 30th, 2003
  18     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7b: Released on April     10th, 2003
  19     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7a: Released on February  19th, 2003
  20     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7:  Released on December  31st, 2002
  21     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6m: Released on March     17th, 2004
  22     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6l: Released on November   4th, 2003
  23     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6k: Released on September 30th, 2003
  24     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6j: Released on April     10th, 2003
  25     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6i: Released on February  19th, 2003
  26     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6h: Released on December   5th, 2002
  27     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6g: Released on August     9th, 2002
  28     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6f: Released on August     8th, 2002
  29     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6e: Released on July      30th, 2002
  30     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Released on May        9th, 2002
  31     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December  21st, 2001
  32     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July       9th, 2001
  33     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April      5th, 2001
  34     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6:  Released on September 24th, 2000
  35     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April      1st, 2000
  36     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February  28th, 2000
  37     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August    09th, 1999
  38     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May       29th, 1999
  39     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May       25th, 1999
  40     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March     22th, 1999
  41     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December  23th, 1998
  42
  43   [See also http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html]
  44
  45   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
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  47     o
  48
  49   AVAILABLE PATCHES
  50
  51     o
  52
  53   IN PROGRESS
  54
  55     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
  56         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
  57         OCSP
  58         EVP cipher enhancement.
  59         Enhanced certificate chain verification.
  60         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
  61         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
  62         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
  63     o Richard is currently working on:
  64         Constification
  65         Attribute Certificate support
  66         Certificate Pair support
  67         Storage Engines (primarly an LDAP storage engine)
  68         Certificate chain validation with full RFC 3280 compatibility
  69
  70   NEEDS PATCH
  71
  72     o  0.9.8-dev: COMPLEMENTOFALL and COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT do not
  73        handle ECCdraft cipher suites correctly.
  74
  75     o  apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
  76
  77     o  "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
  78
  79   OPEN ISSUES
  80
  81     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
  82
  83        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
  84           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
  85           src/Configure. It confuses.
  86           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
  87                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
  88                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
  89                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
  90                       which are currently in Configure.
  91
  92     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
  93        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
  94        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
  95        solution to be really simple.
  96
  97        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
  98                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
  99                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
 100
 101                Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
 102                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
 103                     libcrypto)
 104
 105   WISHES
 106
 107     o  Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
 108        where the callback function can request that the function be aborted.
 109        [Gregory Stark <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
 110
 111     o  SRP in TLS.
 112        [wished by:
 113         Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
 114         Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
 115
 116        See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
 117        as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
 118
 119        Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
 120        http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could
 121        be useful.