OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 2001/05/30 14:59:14 $
+ ______________ $Date: 2001/11/14 21:21:47 $
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
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
+
IN PROGRESS
o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
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 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:
WISHES
- o SRP
- [wished by Dj <derek@yo.net> and Tom Wu <?@?>]
+ 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.