Comment 27 for bug 34982

I notice that a year ago Josh pointed out that EAP-FAST became available in OpenSSL. There doesn't seem to have been any activity on this bug though. As stated in the log for OpenSSL bug #1574 (as seen in the URL below) by Steve of OpenSSL on November 15, 2008:

> You patch has now been applied to HEAD. Thank you for the contribution.
> Let me know of any problems.

Jouni Malinen of wpasupplicant replied on November 16, 2008:

> Thank you! I updated wpa_supplicant and hostapd to use the new API when
> building against OpenSSL 0.9.9. This seems to be working fine and will
> make it much easier for distributions to include EAP-FAST support in the
> future.

and then added on November 23, 2008:

> Here's a backport version of the session ticket override patch against
> OpenSSL 0.9.8i. This provides the same API that was committed into 0.9.9
> tree and it can be used with the current development snapshot of
> wpa_supplicant/hostapd 0.6.x for EAP-FAST.

Here is a URL that doesn't require login and tracks the OpenSSL bug:

http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?user=guest&pass=guest&id=1574

You'll find the cited portions are the last three entries. If this can make its way into Hardy proposed I'd be happy to test it and it would get used daily. I could test it in Jaunty as well although it would see only limited use. I might be able to arrange Karmic in a limited fashion also. I'm not in a position to do anything with Lucid right now unfortunately. If the answer is that we're waiting for Lucid, I understand but is this planned for Lucid or will it slip by another release?

I notice this bug is confirmed for openssl but not currently assigned to anyone. Can someone involved in maintaining the openssl package comment?