fix EC_GROUP_copy for EC_GFp_nist_method()

[openssl.git] / STATUS

diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS
index 40f6414d25d8112473ee298de2f1dc454d9d11cb..a9e7f99224cbcd2f1466c7183d4c554ba2f017ad 100644 (file)
--- a/STATUS
+++ b/STATUS
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 
   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
-  ______________                           $Date: 2002/08/14 11:07:29 $
+  ______________                           $Date: 2002/12/30 23:56:09 $
 
   DEVELOPMENT STATE
 
     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8:  Under development...
-    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 0.9.7:  Released on December  31st, 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
@@ -28,8 +27,17 @@
 
   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
 
@@ -52,9 +60,13 @@
        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