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3 ______________ $Date: 1998/12/31 12:52:23 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.2: Under development.
8 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
16 o Ben is folding in his patches
22 o The installation under "make install" produces a very
23 installation layout: $prefix/certs and $prefix/private dirs. That's
24 not nice. Ralf suggests to move the two certs and private dirs either
25 to $prefix/etc/, $prefix/lib/ or $prefix/share. Alternatively
26 we could also not install the certs at all.
28 Status: Ralf +1 for both not installing the certs at all and
29 moving it to $prefix/etc/. +0 for $prefix/lib/
32 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
33 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
34 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
35 solution to be really simple.
37 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
38 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
39 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
41 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
42 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
43 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
44 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
45 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
46 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
47 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
48 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
51 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
52 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
55 o Ralf has ported Stephen's pkcs12 program to OpenSSL (the
56 ASN.1 stuff Eric recently changed :-( ), but needs some help from
57 Stephen at two source locations. Stephen itself also has ported his
58 internal pkcs12 0.53 version to OpenSSL, but thinks we still shouldn't
59 incorporate it into OpenSSL because it needs more cleanups. Ralf still
60 thinks pkcs12 should be incorporated better now than later because it's
61 nasty to not have it in the core - one always has to install it
62 manually and a lot of people use it. So, should we incorporate it?
63 BTW, we have to be carefully because of the pkcs12 license: There are
64 some things which don't match the OpenSSL license, so Stephen has to
65 change it for us when we want to incorporate the code.
67 Status: Ralf +1, Stephen -0