STATUS

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   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2007/10/11 14:58:14 $
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   5   DEVELOPMENT STATE
   6
   7     o  OpenSSL 0.9.9:  Under development...
   8     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8f: Released on October   11th, 2007
   9     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8e: Released on February  23rd, 2007
  10     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8d: Released on September 28th, 2006
  11     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8c: Released on September  5th, 2006
  12     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8b: Released on May        4th, 2006
  13     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8a: Released on October   11th, 2005
  14     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8:  Released on July       5th, 2005
  15     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7m: Released on February  23rd, 2007
  16     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7l: Released on September 28th, 2006
  17     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7k: Released on September  5th, 2006
  18     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7j: Released on May        4th, 2006
  19     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7i: Released on October   14th, 2005
  20     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7h: Released on October   11th, 2005
  21     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7g: Released on April     11th, 2005
  22     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7f: Released on March     22nd, 2005
  23     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7e: Released on October   25th, 2004
  24     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7d: Released on March     17th, 2004
  25     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7c: Released on September 30th, 2003
  26     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7b: Released on April     10th, 2003
  27     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7a: Released on February  19th, 2003
  28     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7:  Released on December  31st, 2002
  29     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6m: Released on March     17th, 2004
  30     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6l: Released on November   4th, 2003
  31     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6k: Released on September 30th, 2003
  32     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6j: Released on April     10th, 2003
  33     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6i: Released on February  19th, 2003
  34     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6h: Released on December   5th, 2002
  35     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6g: Released on August     9th, 2002
  36     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6f: Released on August     8th, 2002
  37     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6e: Released on July      30th, 2002
  38     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Released on May        9th, 2002
  39     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December  21st, 2001
  40     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July       9th, 2001
  41     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April      5th, 2001
  42     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6:  Released on September 24th, 2000
  43     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April      1st, 2000
  44     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February  28th, 2000
  45     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August    09th, 1999
  46     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May       29th, 1999
  47     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May       25th, 1999
  48     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March     22th, 1999
  49     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December  23th, 1998
  50
  51   [See also http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html]
  52
  53   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
  54
  55     o The Makefiles fail with some SysV makes.
  56     o
  57
  58   AVAILABLE PATCHES
  59
  60     o
  61
  62   IN PROGRESS
  63
  64     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
  65         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
  66         OCSP
  67         EVP cipher enhancement.
  68         Enhanced certificate chain verification.
  69         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
  70         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
  71         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
  72     o Richard is currently working on:
  73         Constification
  74         Attribute Certificate support
  75         Certificate Pair support
  76         Storage Engines (primarly an LDAP storage engine)
  77         Certificate chain validation with full RFC 3280 compatibility
  78
  79   NEEDS PATCH
  80
  81     o  0.9.8-dev: COMPLEMENTOFALL and COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT do not
  82        handle ECCdraft cipher suites correctly.
  83
  84     o  apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
  85
  86     o  "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
  87
  88   OPEN ISSUES
  89
  90     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
  91
  92        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
  93           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
  94           src/Configure. It confuses.
  95           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
  96                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
  97                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
  98                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
  99                       which are currently in Configure.
 100
 101     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
 102        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
 103        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
 104        solution to be really simple.
 105
 106        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
 107                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
 108                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
 109
 110                Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
 111                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
 112                     libcrypto)
 113
 114   WISHES
 115
 116     o  Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
 117        where the callback function can request that the function be aborted.
 118        [Gregory Stark <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
 119
 120     o  SRP in TLS.
 121        [wished by:
 122         Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
 123         Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
 124
 125        See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
 126        as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
 127
 128        Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
 129        http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could
 130        be useful.