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   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
-  ______________                           $Date: 2000/12/13 18:21:47 $
+  ______________                           $Date: 2001/07/17 14:39:26 $
 
   DEVELOPMENT STATE
 
     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7:  Under development...
+    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
@@ -18,7 +20,10 @@
 
   AVAILABLE PATCHES
 
-    o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
+    o IA-64 (a.k.a. Intel Itanium) public-key operation performance 
+      patch for Linux is available for download at
+      http://www.openssl.org/~appro/096b.linux-ia64.diff. As URL
+      suggests the patch is relative to OpenSSL 0.9.6b.
 
   IN PROGRESS
 
@@ -33,21 +38,33 @@
     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  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
 
   OPEN ISSUES
 
+    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.
+
     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
 
        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
@@ -90,4 +107,14 @@
 
   WISHES
 
-    o 
+    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.