X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=STATUS;h=1a6be62fb4f2e7fab371ff75dc07d906c91ede27;hp=67ecd83a9820d9009c3fb20a468e18160753bd69;hb=6ac26a5ce5e2891c35a283961a5aa0d9dcc65d6e;hpb=e2aebccba1b7d5e02cfdb79d9bdce3d7f2b28dee diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS index 67ecd83a98..1a6be62fb4 100644 --- a/STATUS +++ b/STATUS @@ -1,10 +1,18 @@ OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at - ______________ $Date: 2002/02/21 17:23:04 $ + ______________ $Date: 2003/02/19 14:02:37 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE - o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development... + o OpenSSL 0.9.8: Under development... + o OpenSSL 0.9.7a: Released on February 19th, 2003 + o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Released on December 31st, 2002 + o OpenSSL 0.9.6i: Released on February 19th, 2003 + 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 @@ -17,18 +25,21 @@ 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 [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 + 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 @@ -51,21 +62,21 @@ 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 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 - o Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated - or an error is reported - o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date. OPEN ISSUES @@ -94,22 +105,6 @@ 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?]