STATUS

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   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2009/03/25 10:46:55 $
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   5   DEVELOPMENT STATE
   6
   7     o  OpenSSL 0.9.9:  Under development...
   8     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8k: Released on March     25th, 2009
   9     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8j: Released on January    7th, 2009
  10     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8i: Released on September 15th, 2008
  11     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8h: Released on May       28th, 2008
  12     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8g: Released on October   19th, 2007
  13     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8f: Released on October   11th, 2007
  14     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8e: Released on February  23rd, 2007
  15     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8d: Released on September 28th, 2006
  16     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8c: Released on September  5th, 2006
  17     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8b: Released on May        4th, 2006
  18     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8a: Released on October   11th, 2005
  19     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8:  Released on July       5th, 2005
  20     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7m: Released on February  23rd, 2007
  21     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7l: Released on September 28th, 2006
  22     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7k: Released on September  5th, 2006
  23     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7j: Released on May        4th, 2006
  24     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7i: Released on October   14th, 2005
  25     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7h: Released on October   11th, 2005
  26     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7g: Released on April     11th, 2005
  27     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7f: Released on March     22nd, 2005
  28     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7e: Released on October   25th, 2004
  29     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7d: Released on March     17th, 2004
  30     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7c: Released on September 30th, 2003
  31     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7b: Released on April     10th, 2003
  32     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7a: Released on February  19th, 2003
  33     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7:  Released on December  31st, 2002
  34     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6m: Released on March     17th, 2004
  35     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6l: Released on November   4th, 2003
  36     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6k: Released on September 30th, 2003
  37     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6j: Released on April     10th, 2003
  38     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6i: Released on February  19th, 2003
  39     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6h: Released on December   5th, 2002
  40     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6g: Released on August     9th, 2002
  41     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6f: Released on August     8th, 2002
  42     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6e: Released on July      30th, 2002
  43     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Released on May        9th, 2002
  44     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December  21st, 2001
  45     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July       9th, 2001
  46     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April      5th, 2001
  47     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6:  Released on September 24th, 2000
  48     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April      1st, 2000
  49     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February  28th, 2000
  50     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August    09th, 1999
  51     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May       29th, 1999
  52     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May       25th, 1999
  53     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March     22th, 1999
  54     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December  23th, 1998
  55
  56   [See also http://www.openssl.org/support/rt.html]
  57
  58   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
  59
  60     o The Makefiles fail with some SysV makes.
  61     o
  62
  63   AVAILABLE PATCHES
  64
  65     o
  66
  67   IN PROGRESS
  68
  69     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
  70         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
  71         OCSP
  72         EVP cipher enhancement.
  73         Enhanced certificate chain verification.
  74         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
  75         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
  76         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
  77     o Richard is currently working on:
  78         Constification
  79         Attribute Certificate support
  80         Certificate Pair support
  81         Storage Engines (primarly an LDAP storage engine)
  82         Certificate chain validation with full RFC 3280 compatibility
  83
  84   NEEDS PATCH
  85
  86     o  0.9.8-dev: COMPLEMENTOFALL and COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT do not
  87        handle ECCdraft cipher suites correctly.
  88
  89     o  apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
  90
  91     o  "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
  92
  93   OPEN ISSUES
  94
  95     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
  96
  97        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
  98           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
  99           src/Configure. It confuses.
 100           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
 101                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
 102                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
 103                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
 104                       which are currently in Configure.
 105
 106     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
 107        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
 108        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
 109        solution to be really simple.
 110
 111        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
 112                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
 113                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
 114
 115                Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
 116                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
 117                     libcrypto)
 118
 119   WISHES
 120
 121     o  Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
 122        where the callback function can request that the function be aborted.
 123        [Gregory Stark <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
 124
 125     o  SRP in TLS.
 126        [wished by:
 127         Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
 128         Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
 129
 130        See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
 131        as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
 132
 133        Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
 134        http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could
 135        be useful.