STATUS

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   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2008/05/28 22:22:49 $
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   5   DEVELOPMENT STATE
   6
   7     o  OpenSSL 0.9.9:  Under development...
   8     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8h: Released on May       28th, 2008
   9     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8g: Released on October   19th, 2007
  10     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8f: Released on October   11th, 2007
  11     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8e: Released on February  23rd, 2007
  12     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8d: Released on September 28th, 2006
  13     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8c: Released on September  5th, 2006
  14     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8b: Released on May        4th, 2006
  15     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8a: Released on October   11th, 2005
  16     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8:  Released on July       5th, 2005
  17     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7m: Released on February  23rd, 2007
  18     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7l: Released on September 28th, 2006
  19     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7k: Released on September  5th, 2006
  20     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7j: Released on May        4th, 2006
  21     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7i: Released on October   14th, 2005
  22     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7h: Released on October   11th, 2005
  23     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7g: Released on April     11th, 2005
  24     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7f: Released on March     22nd, 2005
  25     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7e: Released on October   25th, 2004
  26     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7d: Released on March     17th, 2004
  27     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7c: Released on September 30th, 2003
  28     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7b: Released on April     10th, 2003
  29     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7a: Released on February  19th, 2003
  30     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7:  Released on December  31st, 2002
  31     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6m: Released on March     17th, 2004
  32     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6l: Released on November   4th, 2003
  33     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6k: Released on September 30th, 2003
  34     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6j: Released on April     10th, 2003
  35     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6i: Released on February  19th, 2003
  36     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6h: Released on December   5th, 2002
  37     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6g: Released on August     9th, 2002
  38     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6f: Released on August     8th, 2002
  39     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6e: Released on July      30th, 2002
  40     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Released on May        9th, 2002
  41     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December  21st, 2001
  42     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July       9th, 2001
  43     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April      5th, 2001
  44     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6:  Released on September 24th, 2000
  45     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April      1st, 2000
  46     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February  28th, 2000
  47     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August    09th, 1999
  48     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May       29th, 1999
  49     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May       25th, 1999
  50     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March     22th, 1999
  51     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December  23th, 1998
  52
  53   [See also http://www.openssl.org/support/rt.html]
  54
  55   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
  56
  57     o The Makefiles fail with some SysV makes.
  58     o
  59
  60   AVAILABLE PATCHES
  61
  62     o
  63
  64   IN PROGRESS
  65
  66     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
  67         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
  68         OCSP
  69         EVP cipher enhancement.
  70         Enhanced certificate chain verification.
  71         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
  72         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
  73         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
  74     o Richard is currently working on:
  75         Constification
  76         Attribute Certificate support
  77         Certificate Pair support
  78         Storage Engines (primarly an LDAP storage engine)
  79         Certificate chain validation with full RFC 3280 compatibility
  80
  81   NEEDS PATCH
  82
  83     o  0.9.8-dev: COMPLEMENTOFALL and COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT do not
  84        handle ECCdraft cipher suites correctly.
  85
  86     o  apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
  87
  88     o  "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
  89
  90   OPEN ISSUES
  91
  92     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
  93
  94        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
  95           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
  96           src/Configure. It confuses.
  97           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
  98                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
  99                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
 100                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
 101                       which are currently in Configure.
 102
 103     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
 104        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
 105        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
 106        solution to be really simple.
 107
 108        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
 109                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
 110                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
 111
 112                Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
 113                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
 114                     libcrypto)
 115
 116   WISHES
 117
 118     o  Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
 119        where the callback function can request that the function be aborted.
 120        [Gregory Stark <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
 121
 122     o  SRP in TLS.
 123        [wished by:
 124         Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
 125         Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
 126
 127        See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
 128        as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
 129
 130        Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
 131        http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could
 132        be useful.