2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 1999/04/16 23:57:00 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Under development...
8 Proposed freeze date: Mon May 8th, 1999
9 Proposed release date: Mon May 17th, 1999
10 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
11 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
15 o Compilation warnings: ctype-related int vs. char
16 o Compilation error: "unsigned long*" and "int*" under AIX
17 o Undefined BN symbols in assembler stuff on Solaris
18 (see posting "openssl-SNAP-19990308-2130 on Solaris-2.6 SC4" in openssl-dev)
19 o BN assembler code in r3000.s, mips*.s and pa-risc*.s is broken
20 o BSD/OS: assembler functions must not have leading underscores
21 o Niels Poppe reports that RSA fails with alpha.s
22 o exptest fails with irix64-*
23 (Don Badrak <dbadrak@geo.census.gov>: "Re: Problems to compile openssl
24 on IRIX 6.2", openssl-users)
25 o BN_add test fails on Caldera OpenLinux 1.3
26 (Marc Christensen <Marc.Christensen@m.cc.utah.edu>
27 "Compiles but fails big number test?", openssl-users)
28 o make test fails on AIX
29 (jvant@bsumail.idbsu.edu on openssl-users)
33 o OCSP (titchenert@certco.com)
34 o unsigned vs. non-unsigned (levitte@stacken.kth.se)
35 o Install prefix for packagers (dharris@drh.net)
36 o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu)
37 o linux dynamic libs (colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au)
38 o MingW support (niklas@canit.se)
39 o SPARC v8 assembler implementations of bn_asm.c
40 (appro@fy.chalmers.se)
44 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
45 Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
46 Documentation on X509 V3 extension code.
47 PKCS#12 code cleanup and enhancement.
48 PKCS #8 and PKCS#5 v2.0 support.
49 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
51 o Mark is currently working on:
52 Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
53 not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release. Plus other minor
56 o Ralf is currently working on:
57 1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(),
58 SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and
59 SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing
60 SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed
61 to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in
62 mod_ssl or Apache-SSL.
63 => It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate
64 again for OpenSSL 0.9.3.
65 2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
66 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
67 3. The new documentation set in POD format under doc/
68 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
69 4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the
70 source tree which are not really needed.
71 => Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge
73 o Ben is currently working on:
74 1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues.
75 2. Integrated documentation.
76 3. New TLS Ciphersuites.
77 4. Anything else that takes his fancy.
82 o salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print
83 <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com>
84 o Jean-Hugues ROYER <jhroyer@joher.com>: rsa_oaep.c with Watcom C
85 o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
86 o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
87 o dubious declaration of crypt() in des.h
91 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
93 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
94 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
95 src/Configure. It confuses.
96 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
97 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
98 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
99 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
100 which are currently in Configure.
102 2. The xxx.org -> xxx.h generation:
103 It's not obvious for which file xxx.org is the source.
104 Suggestion: Rename xxx.org to xxx.h.in (Autoconf style), this way
105 one sees that xxx.h.in is the input for xxx.h
109 o The installation under "make install" produces a very
110 installation layout: $prefix/certs and $prefix/private dirs. That's
111 not nice. Ralf suggests to move the two certs and private dirs either
112 to $prefix/etc/, $prefix/lib/ or $prefix/share. Alternatively
113 we could also not install the certs at all.
115 Status: Ralf +1 for both not installing the certs at all and
116 moving it to $prefix/etc/. +0 for $prefix/lib/
118 Paul: why is it not nice?
119 Ralf: because it messes up the install dir when
120 $prefix is not a dedicated area like /usr/local/ssl.
121 When we move them to a standard subdir like
122 etc/ lib/ or share/ we don't mess up things
123 when $prefix is /usr or /usr/local, etc.
124 Additionally it makes package vendors life
127 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
128 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
129 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
130 solution to be really simple.
132 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
133 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
134 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
136 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
137 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
138 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
139 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
140 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
141 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
142 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
143 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
146 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
147 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
151 o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
152 structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
153 for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
154 use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
155 is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
156 an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
157 don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
158 use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
161 o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
163 o > NO_RSA (ejs@bfd.com)
164 > ./Configure -DNO_IDEA -DNO_RC5 -DNO_RC4 -DNO_RC2 -DNO_RSA -DNO_ERR linux-elf
165 > I tried for a whole day to do this and could not get it to work. Linux
166 > machine, kernel 2.0.36 and 2.2.1, redhat 5.2 latest, gcc and egcs , no
167 > go. I also noticed the even with -DNO_IDEA, _DNO_RC2, etc. the make
168 > still goes into those subdirectories and 'makes'.
170 o The "exported" header files should not use #include "foo.h", but
171 #include <foo.h> or even better #include <ssl/foo.h> or
172 #include <openssl/foo.h> in order to avoid filename clashes.
174 o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
175 there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)
181 "How about making the each of the locations compile-time defined. I
182 would like to (for example) put binaries in /usr/bin, configuration
183 data, certs and keys in /etc/openssl/certs and /etc/openssl/keys, etc.
184 This would also be a great boon to binary package makers. The
185 SSLeay-0.9.1b RPM already includes some patches which do some of this.
186 I can forward them if you wish."
188 o Mats Nilsson <mats.nilsson@xware.se>:
189 "Add reference counting to all substructures of X509 etc. For instance,
190 X509_NAME lacks a reference counter, while EVP_PKEY has one. I'm
191 making COM-wrappers for selected parts of SSLeay for a project of ours,
192 and has found this inconsistency in copy semantics annoying."