Add a few items I intend to work on for 0.9.8 and on.

[openssl.git] / STATUS

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   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
 
   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at

-  ______________                           $Date: 2001/09/11 12:46:50 $
+  ______________                           $Date: 2002/12/07 20:02:20 $

 
   DEVELOPMENT STATE
 
 
   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 0.9.6:  Released on September 24th, 2000
     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


@@ -16,16 +28,28 @@
     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March     22th, 1999
     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December  23th, 1998
 
     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
 
   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
 

-    o BIGNUM library failures on 64-bit platforms (0.9.7-dev)
+    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
 
 
   AVAILABLE PATCHES
 

-    o IA-64 (a.k.a. Intel Itanium) public-key operation performance 
-      patch for Linux is available for download at
-      http://www.openssl.org/~appro/096b.linux-ia64.diff. As URL
-      suggests the patch is relative to OpenSSL 0.9.6b.
+    o 

 
   IN PROGRESS
 
 
   IN PROGRESS
 


@@ -44,20 +68,18 @@
        UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
              functionality that is currently missing).
        Shared library support for VMS.
        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
        Constification

-       OCSP
+       Attribute Certificate support
+       Certificate Pair support
+       Storage Engines (primarly an LDAP storage engine)

 
   NEEDS PATCH
 
 
   NEEDS PATCH
 

-    o  apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
-
-    o  OpenSSL_0_9_6-stable:
-       #include <openssl/e_os.h> in exported header files is illegal since
-       e_os.h is suitable only for library-internal use.
+    o  0.9.8-dev: COMPLEMENTOFALL and COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT do not
+       handle ECCdraft cipher suites correctly.

 
 

-    o  Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated
-       or an error is reported
+    o  apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file

 
     o  "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
 
 
     o  "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
 


@@ -87,24 +109,12 @@
                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
                     libcrypto)
 
                     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
 
   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 <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
+

     o  SRP in TLS.
        [wished by:
         Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
     o  SRP in TLS.
        [wished by:
         Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,