2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2000/03/25 10:44:28 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Under development...
8 Proposed release date March 31st, 2000
9 0.9.5a-beta1 is available.
10 sunos-gcc - failed (ssize_t)
11 ultrix-gcc, ultrix-cc - failed (ssize_t)
12 sco5-cc - bc fails in test
13 VC-Win32 (MSVC6SP3, nasm) - failed (fixed)
14 FreeBSD-elf (i686-pc-freebsd3.2)- failed (fixed)
15 HPUX (hpux-parisc-cc w/ +02) - passed
17 solaris-sparcv9-cc - passed
18 0.9.5a-beta2 is available.
20 linux-ppc (egcs 2.91.66) - passed
22 FreeBSD-elf (i586-pc-freebsd3.2)- passed
23 solaris-sparcv9-cc - passed
24 solaris-sparcv9-gcc - passed
26 VMS/Alpha 7.1 w/ DEC C 5.6-003 - passed
27 VMS/Alpha 7.2-1 w/ CPQ C 6.2-003- passed
28 VMS/VAX 7.1 w/ DEC C 5.6-003 - passed
29 VMS/VAX 7.2 w/ DEC C 6.0-001 - passed
30 AIX 4.3.3.0 w/ cc - passed
31 AIX 4.3.3.0 w/ gcc (2.7.2.3?) - passed
32 Irix 6.4 w/ cc - passed
33 Irix 6.4 w/ gcc - passed
34 Irix 6.5 w/ cc - passed
35 Irix 6.5 w/ gcc - passed
37 Unixware 7.0.1 w/ native cc - passed
38 Solaris-x86 2.6 w/ gcc 2.7.2.3 - passed
39 Solaris-x86 2.7 w/ gcc 2.7.2.3 - passed
40 True64 Unix w/ gcc 2.7.2.3 - passed
41 Win32 w/ VC++ 5 & NASM 0.98 - passed
43 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
44 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
45 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
46 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
47 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
48 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
54 o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
58 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
59 Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
60 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
61 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
62 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
63 Documentation for the openssl utility.
67 o non-blocking socket on AIX
68 o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
69 o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
73 o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
76 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
78 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
79 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
80 src/Configure. It confuses.
81 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
82 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
83 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
84 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
85 which are currently in Configure.
87 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
88 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
89 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
90 solution to be really simple.
92 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
93 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
94 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
96 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
97 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
101 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
102 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
103 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
104 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
105 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
106 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
107 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
108 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
111 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
112 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
116 o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
117 structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
118 for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
119 use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
120 is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
121 an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
122 don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
123 use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
126 o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
127 there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)