OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 2002/05/16 10:01:53 $
+ ______________ $Date: 2002/12/26 22:25:02 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
- o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development...
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.8: Under development...
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta6: Released on December 17th, 2002
+ Solaris on Sun Ultra (Workshop 6 update 1) - PASSED with warnings
+ (warnings fixed)
+ Redhat 8 on i386 (gcc 3.2) - PASSED
+ Debian GNU/Linux on i386 (kernel 2.4.19, gxx 2.95.4) - PASSED
+ Windows CE on HPC Pro 2.11 - PASSED
+ Windows CE on HPC 2000 - PASSED
+ Windows CE on PocketPC 2000 - PASSED
+ Windows CE on PocketPC 2002 - PASSED
+ VMS (>=6.0 on any platform, DEC C) - ERROR
+ (errors fixed
+ PR: 407, 413)
+ Windows XP, with Kerberos 5 - ERROR
+ Windows 2000 (Cygwin) - ERROR
+ (PR: 404)
+ SCO OpenServer, Unixware? - ERROR
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta5: Released on December 5th, 2002
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta4: Released on November 19th, 2002
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta3: Released on July 30th, 2002
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta2: Released on June 16th, 2002
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta1: Released on June 1st, 2002
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.6h: Released on December 5th, 2002
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.6g: Released on August 9th, 2002
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.6f: Released on August 8th, 2002
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.6e: Released on July 30th, 2002
o OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Released on May 9th, 2002
o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001
o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001
o BN_mod_mul verification fails for mips3-sgi-irix
unless configured with no-asm
+ o [2002-11-21]
+ PR 343 mentions that scrubbing memory with 'memset(ptr, 0, n)' may
+ be optimized away in modern compilers. This is definitely not good
+ and needs to be fixed immediately. The formula to use is presented
+ in:
+
+ http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/297918/2002-10-27/2002-11-02/0
+
+ The problem report that mentions this is:
+
+ https://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=343
+
AVAILABLE PATCHES
o
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
+ Kerberos 5 authentication (Heimdal)
Constification
- OCSP
+ Compression
+ Attribute Certificate support
+ Certificate Pair support
+ Storage Engines (primarly an LDAP storage engine)
+ Certificate chain validation with full RFC 3280 compatibility
NEEDS PATCH
+ o 0.9.8-dev: COMPLEMENTOFALL and COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT do not
+ handle ECCdraft cipher suites correctly.
+
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