Harmonize CHANGES and STATUS files between the 0.9.6a branch and

the trunk to keep diffs small.

CHANGES

@@ -28,15 +28,6 @@
      X509_NAME_get_index_by_NID() since 0 is a valid index.
      [Steve Henson reported by Massimiliano Pala <madwolf@opensca.org>]
 
-  *) Use better test patterns in bntest.
-     [Ulf Möller]
-
-  *) Initialise "ex_data" member of RSA/DSA/DH structures prior to calling
-     the method-specific "init()" handler. Also clean up ex_data after
-     calling the method-specific "finish()" handler. Previously, this was
-     happening the other way round.
-     [Geoff Thorpe]
-
   *) Avoid coredump with unsupported or invalid public keys by checking if
      X509_get_pubkey() fails in PKCS7_verify(). Fix memory leak when
      PKCS7_verify() fails with non detached data.
@@ -69,6 +60,7 @@
   *) Fix X509_NAME bug which produced incorrect encoding if X509_NAME
      was empty.
      [Steve Henson]
+     [This change does not apply to 0.9.7.]
 
   *) Use the cached encoding of an X509_NAME structure rather than
      copying it. This is apparently the reason for the libsafe "errors"
@@ -80,7 +72,7 @@
      Extend BN_[pseudo_]rand: As before, top=1 forces the highest two bits
      to be set and top=0 forces the highest bit to be set; top=-1 is new
      and leaves the highest bit random.
-     [Ulf Moeller]
+     [Ulf Moeller, Bodo Moeller]
 
   *) In the NCONF_...-based implementations for CONF_... queries
      (crypto/conf/conf_lib.c), if the input LHASH is NULL, avoid using
@@ -109,6 +101,7 @@
      macros previously used would not encode an empty SEQUENCE OF
      and break the signature.
      [Steve Henson]
+     [This change does not apply to 0.9.7.]
 
   *) Zero the premaster secret after deriving the master secret in
      DH ciphersuites.
@@ -161,12 +154,19 @@
   *) Fix a deadlock in CRYPTO_mem_leaks().
      [Bodo Moeller]
 
+  *) Use better test patterns in bntest.
+     [Ulf Möller]
+
   *) rand_win.c fix for Borland C.
      [Ulf Möller]
  
   *) BN_rshift bugfix for n == 0.
      [Bodo Moeller]
 
+  *) Add a 'bctest' script that checks for some known 'bc' bugs
+     so that 'make test' does not abort just because 'bc' is broken.
+     [Bodo Moeller]
+
   *) Store verify_result within SSL_SESSION also for client side to
      avoid potential security hole. (Re-used sessions on the client side
      always resulted in verify_result==X509_V_OK, not using the original
@@ -189,6 +189,12 @@
      does the actual work for ssl3_read_internal.
      [Bodo Moeller]
 
+  *) Initialise "ex_data" member of RSA/DSA/DH structures prior to calling
+     the method-specific "init()" handler. Also clean up ex_data after
+     calling the method-specific "finish()" handler. Previously, this was
+     happening the other way round.
+     [Geoff Thorpe]
+
   *) Increase BN_CTX_NUM (the number of BIGNUMs in a BN_CTX) to 16.
      The previous value, 12, was not always sufficient for BN_mod_exp().
      [Bodo Moeller]

STATUS

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 
   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
-  ______________                           $Date: 2001/03/22 09:02:38 $
+  ______________                           $Date: 2001/03/22 10:59:16 $
 
   DEVELOPMENT STATE
 
-    o  OpenSSL 0.9.6a: In development...
+    o  OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Bugfix release -- under development...
                        Beta 1 released on March 13th, 2001
 	HP-UX 10.20 (hpux-parisc-cc)		- PASSED [normal+engine]
 	HP-UX 10.20 (hpux-parisc-gcc)		- PASSED [normal+engine]
@@ -50,14 +50,13 @@
 
   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.
+        OCSP
         EVP cipher enhancement.
-        Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
+        Enhanced 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.
@@ -66,19 +65,29 @@
     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.
+	OCSP
+	Kerberos 5 authentication
+	Constification
 
   NEEDS PATCH
 
-    o  non-blocking socket on AIX
+    o  apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
-    o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
+
-    o  "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  Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated
+       or an error is reported
 
   OPEN ISSUES
 
-    o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
+    o  crypto/ex_data.c is not really thread-safe and so must be used
-      CA flag ...)
+       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: