X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=STATUS;h=1a6be62fb4f2e7fab371ff75dc07d906c91ede27;hp=e3b3a089663f698221ca416c9fe9e2dee1b4bf83;hb=b8dc9693a73bb96688c3e8eaac232fc5b2393609;hpb=27bfba299e6c8577deee2c70177508246e5888fe diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS index e3b3a08966..1a6be62fb4 100644 --- a/STATUS +++ b/STATUS @@ -1,10 +1,20 @@ OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at - ______________ $Date: 2001/06/04 06:51:43 $ + ______________ $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 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000 @@ -15,10 +25,26 @@ 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 [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 + IN PROGRESS o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order): @@ -32,32 +58,29 @@ 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 + Kerberos 5 authentication (Heimdal) Constification + 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 apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file + o 0.9.8-dev: COMPLEMENTOFALL and COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT do not + handle ECCdraft cipher suites correctly. - o OpenSSL_0_9_6-stable: - #include in exported header files is illegal since - e_os.h is suitable only for library-internal use. + 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 - 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. - o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing: 1. The config vs. Configure scripts @@ -82,25 +105,20 @@ 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?] + where the callback function can request that the function be aborted. + [Gregory Stark , ] + o SRP in TLS. + [wished by: + Dj , Tom Wu , + Tom Holroyd ] + See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/. - [wished by Dj and Tom Wu ] + + Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at + http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could + be useful.