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+  OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
+  ______________                           $Date: 2000/09/24 15:42:34 $
+
+  DEVELOPMENT STATE
+
+    o  OpenSSL 0.9.6:  Released on September 24th, 2000
+    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
+    o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March     22th, 1999
+    o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December  23th, 1998
+
+  RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
+
+  AVAILABLE PATCHES
+
+    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.
+	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  non-blocking socket on AIX
+    o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
+    o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
+
+  OPEN ISSUES
+
+    o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
+      CA flag ...)
+
+    o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
+
+       1. The config vs. Configure scripts
+          It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
+          src/Configure. It confuses.
+          Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
+                      script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
+                      Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
+                      itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
+                      which are currently in Configure.
+
+    o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
+       for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
+       Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
+       solution to be really simple.
+
+       Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
+               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
+       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