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3 ______________ $Date: 1999/05/12 01:52:58 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Under development...
8 Proposed freeze date: Mon May 17th, 1999
9 Proposed release date: Mon May 24th, 1999
11 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
12 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
14 [ Proposed new numbering scheme: <major>.<minor>[<patchlevel>]
22 o BSD/OS: assembler functions must not have leading underscores
23 o exptest and rsa_oaep_test fail with irix64-*
24 (Don Badrak <dbadrak@geo.census.gov>: "Re: Problems to compile openssl
25 on IRIX 6.2", openssl-users)
26 o const des_cblock problem
30 o OCSP (titchenert@certco.com)
31 o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu)
35 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
36 Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
37 Documentation on X509 V3 extension code.
38 PKCS #8 and PKCS#5 v2.0 support.
39 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
40 Checking and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
42 o Mark is currently working on:
43 Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
44 not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release. Plus other minor
47 o Ralf is currently working on:
48 1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(),
49 SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and
50 SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing
51 SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed
52 to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in
53 mod_ssl or Apache-SSL.
54 => It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate
55 again for OpenSSL 0.9.3.
56 2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
57 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
58 3. The new documentation set in POD format under doc/
59 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
60 4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the
61 source tree which are not really needed.
62 => Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge
64 o Ben is currently working on:
65 1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues.
66 2. Integrated documentation.
67 3. New TLS Ciphersuites.
68 4. Anything else that takes his fancy.
73 o salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print
74 <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com>
75 o Compilation warnings: ctype-related int vs. char
76 o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
77 o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
78 o dubious declaration of crypt() in des.h
82 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
84 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
85 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
86 src/Configure. It confuses.
87 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
88 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
89 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
90 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
91 which are currently in Configure.
93 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
94 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
95 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
96 solution to be really simple.
98 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
99 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
100 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
102 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
103 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
104 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
105 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
106 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
107 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
108 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
109 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
112 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
113 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
117 o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
118 structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
119 for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
120 use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
121 is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
122 an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
123 don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
124 use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
127 o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
129 o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
130 there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)
136 "How about making the each of the locations compile-time defined. I
137 would like to (for example) put binaries in /usr/bin, configuration
138 data, certs and keys in /etc/openssl/certs and /etc/openssl/keys, etc.
139 This would also be a great boon to binary package makers. The
140 SSLeay-0.9.1b RPM already includes some patches which do some of this.
141 I can forward them if you wish."
143 o Mats Nilsson <mats.nilsson@xware.se>:
144 "Add reference counting to all substructures of X509 etc. For instance,
145 X509_NAME lacks a reference counter, while EVP_PKEY has one. I'm
146 making COM-wrappers for selected parts of SSLeay for a project of ours,
147 and has found this inconsistency in copy semantics annoying."