STATUS

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