OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 2002/02/28 12:42:00 $
+ ______________ $Date: 2002/12/07 20:02:20 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
- o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development...
+ 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 0.9.2b: 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 BIGNUM library failures on 64-bit platforms (0.9.7-dev):
- - BN_mod_mul verificiation (bc) fails for solaris64-sparcv9-cc
+ 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
- Checked on Result
- alpha-cc (Tru64 version 4.0) works
- linux-alpha+bwx-gcc doesn't work. Reported by
- Sean O'Riordain <seanpor@acm.org>
+ The problem report that mentions this is:
- Needs checked on
- [add platforms here]
+ https://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=343
AVAILABLE PATCHES
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
+ Attribute Certificate support
+ Certificate Pair support
+ Storage Engines (primarly an LDAP storage engine)
NEEDS PATCH
- o An (optional) countermeasure against the predictable-IV CBC
- weakness in SSL/TLS should be added; see
- http://www.openssl.org/~bodo/tls-cbc.txt
+ 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
which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
libcrypto)
-
- 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.
-
- 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
-
WISHES
o Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
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