Add a few items I intend to work on for 0.9.8 and on.
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   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
-  ______________                           $Date: 2000/09/13 01:50:24 $
+  ______________                           $Date: 2002/12/07 20:02:20 $
 
   DEVELOPMENT STATE
 
-    o  OpenSSL 0.9.6:  Under development (in release cycle)...
-                       Proposed release date September 24, 2000
-                       0.9.6-beta1 is available:
-                       OpenBSD-x86 2.7                 - failed (ftime/TIMEB)
-                                                                [FIXED]
-                       hpux-parisc-cc 10.20            - passed
-                       hpux-parisc-gcc 10.20           - passed
-                       hpux-gcc                        - passed
-                       hpux-brokengcc                  - failed (BN_sqr)
-                       linux-elf                       - passed
-                       linux-sparcv7                   - passed
-                       linux-ppc                       - passed
-                       Solaris [engine]                - failed (speed cswift)
-                                                                [FIXED]
-                       solaris-sparcv8-gcc             - passed
-                       solaris-sparcv9-gcc             - passed
-                       solaris-sparcv9-cc              - passed
-                       solaris64-sparcv9-cc            - passed
-                       sco5-gcc                        - passed
-                       sco5-cc                         - passed
-                       FreeBSD                         - passed
-                       Win32 VC++                      - failed (PCURSORINFO)
-                                  RAND_poll() problem on Win2000
-                       CygWin32                        - test failed
-                       MingW32                         - failed (thelp32.h)
-                       aix-gcc (AIX 4.3.2)             - passed
-    o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April     1st, 2000
-    o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February 28th, 2000
-    o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August   09th, 1999
-    o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May      29th, 1999
-    o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May      25th, 1999
-    o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March    22th, 1999
-    o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
+    o  OpenSSL 0.9.8:  Under development...
+    o  OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta5: Released on December  5th, 2002
+    o  OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta4: Released on November 19th, 2002
+       Debian GNU/Linux (kernel version 2.4.19, gcc 2.95.4)    - PASSED
+    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  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
+    o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August    09th, 1999
+    o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May       29th, 1999
+    o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May       25th, 1999
+    o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March     22th, 1999
+    o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December  23th, 1998
+
+  [See also http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html]
 
   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
 
+    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 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).
-       Dynamic thread-lock support.
        Shared library support for VMS.
+       Kerberos 5 authentication (Heimdal)
+       Constification
+       Attribute Certificate support
+       Certificate Pair support
+       Storage Engines (primarly an LDAP storage engine)
 
   NEEDS PATCH
 
-    o  non-blocking socket on AIX
-    o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
-    o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
+    o  0.9.8-dev: COMPLEMENTOFALL and COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT do not
+       handle ECCdraft cipher suites correctly.
 
-  OPEN ISSUES
+    o  apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
+
+    o  "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
 
-    o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
-      CA flag ...)
+  OPEN ISSUES
 
     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
 
                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
                     libcrypto)
 
+  WISHES
 
-    o  The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
-       totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
-       with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
-       Net::SSLeay package we can find under
-       http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html.  Ralf uses this package for a
-       longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
-       to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
-       Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
-       us.
+    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>]
 
-       Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
-               and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
-               to date.
-               Paul +1
+    o  SRP in TLS.
+       [wished by:
+        Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
+        Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
 
-  WISHES
+       See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
+       as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
 
-    o 
+       Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
+       http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could
+       be useful.