2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2000/09/11 20:32:35 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Under development (in release cycle)...
8 Proposed release date September 24, 2000
9 0.9.6-beta1 is available:
10 OpenBSD-x86 2.7 - failed (ftime/TIMEB)
11 hpux-parisc-cc 10.20 - passed
12 hpux-parisc-gcc 10.20 - passed
14 Solaris [engine] - failed (speed cswift)
15 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
16 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
17 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
18 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
19 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
20 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
21 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
27 o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
31 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
32 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
33 EVP cipher enhancement.
34 Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
35 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
36 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
37 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
38 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
39 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
40 o Richard is currently working on:
41 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
42 functionality that is currently missing).
43 Dynamic thread-lock support.
44 Shared library support for VMS.
48 o non-blocking socket on AIX
49 o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
50 o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
54 o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
57 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
59 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
60 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
61 src/Configure. It confuses.
62 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
63 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
64 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
65 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
66 which are currently in Configure.
68 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
69 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
70 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
71 solution to be really simple.
73 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
74 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
75 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
77 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
78 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
82 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
83 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
84 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
85 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
86 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
87 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
88 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
89 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
92 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
93 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up