2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 1999/03/23 14:48:59 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Under development...
8 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
9 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
13 o Compilation warnings: ctype-related int vs. char
14 o Compilation error: "unsigned long*" and "int*" under AIX
15 o Why are NULL ciphers in front of the cipher spec?
16 (see my posting "Bug?!: Cipher Suite and NULL Ciphers" in openssl-dev)
17 o A Linux alpha user reported: "alpha.s does not have bn_div_word()"
18 (see posting "ALPHA error" in openssl-dev)
19 o Undefined BN symbols in assembler stuff on Solaris
20 (see posting "openssl-SNAP-19990308-2130 on Solaris-2.6 SC4" in openssl-dev)
24 o Solaris AS error (kenji@miyake.org)
25 o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu)
26 o s3_lib.c - export clients (levitte@stacken.kth.se)
27 o linux dynamic libs (colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au)
28 o MingW support (niklas@canit.se)
29 o crypto/des/enc_read.c bugfix (mike@cs.mun.ca)
33 o Steve is currently working on:
34 X509 V3 extension code including:
35 1. Support for the more common PKIX extensions.
36 2. Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
37 3. Support in standard applications (req, x509, ca).
38 4. Documentation on how all the above works.
39 Next on the list is probably PKCS#12 integration.
41 o Mark is currently working on:
42 Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
43 not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release. Plus other minor
46 o Ralf is currently working on:
47 1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(),
48 SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and
49 SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing
50 SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed
51 to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in
52 mod_ssl or Apache-SSL.
53 => It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate
54 again for OpenSSL 0.9.3.
55 2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
56 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
57 3. The new documentation set in POD format under doc/
58 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
59 4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the
60 source tree which are not really needed.
61 => Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge
63 o Ben is currently working on:
64 1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues.
65 2. Integrated documentation.
66 3. New TLS Ciphersuites.
67 4. Anything else that takes his fancy.
73 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
75 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
76 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
77 src/Configure. It confuses.
78 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
79 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
80 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
81 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
82 which are currently in Configure.
84 2. The xxx.org -> xxx.h generation:
85 It's not obvious for which file xxx.org is the source.
86 Suggestion: Rename xxx.org to xxx.h.in (Autoconf style), this way
87 one sees that xxx.h.in is the input for xxx.h
91 o The installation under "make install" produces a very
92 installation layout: $prefix/certs and $prefix/private dirs. That's
93 not nice. Ralf suggests to move the two certs and private dirs either
94 to $prefix/etc/, $prefix/lib/ or $prefix/share. Alternatively
95 we could also not install the certs at all.
97 Status: Ralf +1 for both not installing the certs at all and
98 moving it to $prefix/etc/. +0 for $prefix/lib/
100 Paul: why is it not nice?
101 Ralf: because it messes up the install dir when
102 $prefix is not a dedicated area like /usr/local/ssl.
103 When we move them to a standard subdir like
104 etc/ lib/ or share/ we don't mess up things
105 when $prefix is /usr or /usr/local, etc.
106 Additionally it makes package vendors life
109 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
110 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
111 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
112 solution to be really simple.
114 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
115 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
116 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
118 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
119 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
120 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
121 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
122 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
123 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
124 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
125 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
128 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
129 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
133 o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
134 structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
135 for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
136 use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
137 is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
138 an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
139 don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
140 use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
143 o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
145 o > NO_RSA (ejs@bfd.com)
146 > ./Configure -DNO_IDEA -DNO_RC5 -DNO_RC4 -DNO_RC2 -DNO_RSA -DNO_ERR linux-elf
147 > I tried for a whole day to do this and could not get it to work. Linux
148 > machine, kernel 2.0.36 and 2.2.1, redhat 5.2 latest, gcc and egcs , no
149 > go. I also noticed the even with -DNO_IDEA, _DNO_RC2, etc. the make
150 > still goes into those subdirectories and 'makes'.
155 "How about making the each of the locations compile-time defined. I
156 would like to (for example) put binaries in /usr/bin, configuration
157 data, certs and keys in /etc/openssl/certs and /etc/openssl/keys, etc.
158 This would also be a great boon to binary package makers. The
159 SSLeay-0.9.1b RPM already includes some patches which do some of this.
160 I can forward them if you wish."
162 o Mats Nilsson <mats.nilsson@xware.se>:
163 "Add reference counting to all substructures of X509 etc. For instance,
164 X509_NAME lacks a reference counter, while EVP_PKEY has one. I'm
165 making COM-wrappers for selected parts of SSLeay for a project of ours,
166 and has found this inconsistency in copy semantics annoying."