OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 2001/07/17 14:39:26 $
+ ______________ $Date: 2001/09/25 11:01:14 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
+ o BIGNUM library failures on 64-bit platforms (0.9.7-dev):
+ - BN_mod_mul verificiation (bc) fails for solaris64-sparcv9-cc
+
AVAILABLE PATCHES
o IA-64 (a.k.a. Intel Itanium) public-key operation performance
NEEDS PATCH
+ o All 'openssl' subprograms taking '-des' and '-des3' options should
+ include AES support (0.9.7-dev)
+
+ o 'openssl speed' should include AES support (0.9.7-dev)
+
o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
o OpenSSL_0_9_6-stable:
o Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated
or an error is reported
- OPEN ISSUES
+ o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
- o crypto/ex_data.c is not really thread-safe and so must be used
- with care (e.g., extra locking where necessary, or don't call
- CRYPTO_get_ex_new_index once multiple threads exist).
- The current API is not suitable for everything that it pretends
- to offer.
+ OPEN ISSUES
o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing: