More new BIO docs, correct some old ones.

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   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
-  ______________                           $Date: 1999/08/09 11:14:06 $
+  ______________                           $Date: 2000/09/07 08:14:46 $
 
   DEVELOPMENT STATE
 
-    o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Under development...
+    o  OpenSSL 0.9.6:  Under development...
+    o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April     1st, 2000
+    o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February 28th, 2000
     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August   09th, 1999
     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May      29th, 1999
     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May      25th, 1999
@@ -15,48 +17,28 @@
 
   AVAILABLE PATCHES
 
-    o OCSP (titchenert@certco.com) 
-    o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu)
+    o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
 
   IN PROGRESS
 
     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
+        ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
+        EVP cipher enhancement.
         Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
        Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
-       Checking and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
-
-    o Mark is currently working on:
-        Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
-        not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release.  Plus other minor
-        tidying.
-
-    o Ralf is currently working on:
-        1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(),
-           SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and
-           SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing
-           SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed
-           to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in
-           mod_ssl or Apache-SSL.
-           => It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate
-              again for OpenSSL 0.9.3.
-        2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
-           => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
-        3. The new documentation set in POD format under doc/
-           => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
-        4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the
-           source tree which are not really needed.
-           => Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge
-
-    o Ben is currently working on:
-       1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues.
-       2. Integrated documentation.
-       3. New TLS Ciphersuites.
-       4. Anything else that takes his fancy.
+       Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
+        Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
+    o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
+       ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
+    o Richard is currently working on:
+       UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
+             functionality that is currently missing).
+       Dynamic thread-lock support.
+       Shared library support for VMS.
 
   NEEDS PATCH
 
-    o  salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print
-       <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com>
+    o  non-blocking socket on AIX
     o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
     o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
 
@@ -85,6 +67,11 @@
                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
 
+               Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
+                    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
@@ -100,22 +87,6 @@
                to date.
                Paul +1
 
-    o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
-      structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
-      for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
-      use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
-      is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
-      an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
-      don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
-      use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
-      RC2 to adapt).
-
-    o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
-
-    o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
-      there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)
-      or similar.
-
   WISHES
 
     o