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3 ______________ $Date: 1999/03/08 12:13:35 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.2: Freezed!
8 - No more feature commits, please.
9 - Commit bugfixes and cleanups only, please.
10 - Already successfully tested platform:
11 o FreeBSD 3.1 Ralf S. Engelschall
13 Proposed release time: Monday, March 15th 1999
15 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
21 o Solaris AS error (kenji@miyake.org)
22 o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu)
23 o s3_lib.c - export clients (levitte@stacken.kth.se)
24 o linux dynamic libs (colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au)
25 o MingW support (niklas@canit.se)
26 o crypto/des/enc_read.c bugfix (mike@cs.mun.ca)
30 o Steve is currently working on:
31 X509 V3 extension code including:
32 1. Support for the more common PKIX extensions.
33 2. Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
34 3. Support in standard applications (req, x509, ca).
35 4. Documentation on how all the above works.
36 Next on the list is probably PKCS#12 integration.
38 o Mark is currently working on:
39 Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
40 not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release. Plus other minor
43 o Ralf is currently working on:
44 1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(),
45 SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and
46 SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing
47 SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed
48 to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in
49 mod_ssl or Apache-SSL.
50 => It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate
51 again for OpenSSL 0.9.3.
52 2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
53 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
54 3. The new documentation set in PID format under doc/
55 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
56 4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the
57 source tree which are not really needed.
58 => Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge
60 o Ben is currently working on:
61 1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues.
62 2. Integrated documentation.
63 3. New TLS Ciphersuites.
64 4. Anything else that takes his fancy.
70 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
72 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
73 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
74 src/Configure. It confuses.
75 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
76 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
77 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
78 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
79 which are currently in Configure.
81 2. The xxx.org -> xxx.h generation:
82 It's not obvious for which file xxx.org is the source.
83 Suggestion: Rename xxx.org to xxx.h.in (Autoconf style), this way
84 one sees that xxx.h.in is the input for xxx.h
88 o The installation under "make install" produces a very
89 installation layout: $prefix/certs and $prefix/private dirs. That's
90 not nice. Ralf suggests to move the two certs and private dirs either
91 to $prefix/etc/, $prefix/lib/ or $prefix/share. Alternatively
92 we could also not install the certs at all.
94 Status: Ralf +1 for both not installing the certs at all and
95 moving it to $prefix/etc/. +0 for $prefix/lib/
97 Paul: why is it not nice?
98 Ralf: because it messes up the install dir when
99 $prefix is not a dedicated area like /usr/local/ssl.
100 When we move them to a standard subdir like
101 etc/ lib/ or share/ we don't mess up things
102 when $prefix is /usr or /usr/local, etc.
103 Additionally it makes package vendors life
106 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
107 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
108 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
109 solution to be really simple.
111 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
112 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
113 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
115 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
116 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
117 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
118 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
119 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
120 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
121 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
122 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
125 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
126 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
130 o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
131 structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
132 for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
133 use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
134 is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
135 an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
136 don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
137 use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
140 o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
142 o > NO_RSA (ejs@bfd.com)
143 > ./Configure -DNO_IDEA -DNO_RC5 -DNO_RC4 -DNO_RC2 -DNO_RSA -DNO_ERR linux-elf
144 > I tried for a whole day to do this and could not get it to work. Linux
145 > machine, kernel 2.0.36 and 2.2.1, redhat 5.2 latest, gcc and egcs , no
146 > go. I also noticed the even with -DNO_IDEA, _DNO_RC2, etc. the make
147 > still goes into those subdirectories and 'makes'.
152 "How about making the each of the locations compile-time defined. I
153 would like to (for example) put binaries in /usr/bin, configuration
154 data, certs and keys in /etc/openssl/certs and /etc/openssl/keys, etc.
155 This would also be a great boon to binary package makers. The
156 SSLeay-0.9.1b RPM already includes some patches which do some of this.
157 I can forward them if you wish."
159 o Mats Nilsson <mats.nilsson@xware.se>:
160 "Add reference counting to all substructures of X509 etc. For instance,
161 X509_NAME lacks a reference counter, while EVP_PKEY has one. I'm
162 making COM-wrappers for selected parts of SSLeay for a project of ours,
163 and has found this inconsistency in copy semantics annoying."