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   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
-  ______________                           $Date: 2000/11/19 14:11:03 $
+  ______________                           $Date: 2002/02/09 01:49:53 $
 
   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
@@ -16,34 +19,51 @@
 
   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 CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
+    o 
 
   IN PROGRESS
 
     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
+        OCSP
         EVP cipher enhancement.
-     /* Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification. */
+        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.
-       OCSP
        Kerberos 5 authentication
        Constification
+       OCSP
 
   NEEDS PATCH
 
-    o  non-blocking socket on AIX
-    o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
-    o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
+    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:
+       #include <openssl/e_os.h> in exported header files is illegal since
+       e_os.h is suitable only for library-internal use.
+
+    o  Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated
+       or an error is reported
+
+    o  "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
 
   OPEN ISSUES
 
@@ -89,4 +109,18 @@
 
   WISHES
 
-    o 
+    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 <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
+
+    o  SRP in TLS.
+       [wished by:
+        Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
+        Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
+
+       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.