OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at ______________ $Date: 2002/04/26 08:28:28 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development... o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001 o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001 o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998 RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS o BIGNUM library failures on 64-bit platforms (0.9.7-dev): - BN_mod_mul verificiation (bc) fails for solaris64-sparcv9-cc and other 64-bit platforms Checked on Result alpha-cc (Tru64 version 4.0) works linux-alpha+bwx-gcc doesn't work. Reported by Sean O'Riordain OpenBSD-sparc64 doesn't work. BN_mod_mul breaks. Needs checked on [add platforms here] - BN_mod_mul verification fails for mips3-sgi-irix unless configured with no-asm AVAILABLE PATCHES o IN PROGRESS o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order): ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement. OCSP EVP cipher enhancement. Enhanced certificate chain verification. Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation. Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code). Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions. o Geoff and Richard are currently working on: ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others). o Richard is currently working on: UI (User Interface) UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level functionality that is currently missing). Shared library support for VMS. Kerberos 5 authentication Constification OCSP NEEDS PATCH o inappropriate AlgorithmIdentifier used in S/MIME signatures (key type instead of signature algorithm) o AES ciphersuites are not (yet) official and should not be enabled unless explicitly requested o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date. OPEN ISSUES o Do we want the EVP API changes in 0.9.7? Can compatibility be improved? o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing: 1. The config vs. Configure scripts It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs. src/Configure. It confuses. Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks which are currently in Configure. o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the solution to be really simple. Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache into the OpenSSL Configure script. Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake, which apparently is not flexible enough to generate libcrypto) WISHES o Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?] where the callback function can request that the function be aborted. [Gregory Stark , ] o SRP in TLS. [wished by: Dj , Tom Wu , Tom Holroyd ] See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/. Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could be useful.