2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2001/03/31 14:03:09 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development...
8 o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Bugfix release -- under development...
9 Beta 1 released on March 13th, 2001
10 HP-UX 10.20 (hpux-parisc-cc) - PASSED [normal+engine]
11 HP-UX 10.20 (hpux-parisc-gcc) - PASSED [normal+engine]
12 HP-UX 11.00 32bit (hpux-parisc-gcc) - FAILED [engine]
13 "openssl speed rsa1024 -engine cswift" fails unless
14 libswift.sl is renamed to libswift.so.
16 HP MPE/iX - PASSED [presumed normal]
17 Linux 2.2.17 SMP (linux-elf) - PASSED [normal+engine]
18 Windows (VC-WIN32) - FAILED [presumed normal]
19 Missing line in ms/32all.bat:
20 perl util\mkfiles.pl >MINFO
22 In randfile.c, line 214, signed and unsigned int are mixed.
24 In s_client.c and s_server.c, RAND_status() needs to get
25 declared (#include <openssl/rand.h>)
27 OpenVMS (any version) - FAILED [normal+engine]
28 Missing instructions in building script.
30 AIX 4.3 - FAILED [engine]
31 Needs -DDSO_DLFCN and -DHAVE_DLFCN_H to work.
32 [CORRECTED] (but will not be automagically configured)
33 Irix 6.5.11 - FAILED [presumed normal]
35 solaris64-sparcv9-cc (SunOS 5.8) - PASSED [normal+engine]
36 BSDI 4.0.1 (bsdi-elf-gcc) - FAILED [engine]
37 Needs -DDSO_DLFCN, -DHAVE_DLFCN_H and -ldl to work.
39 mingw32 w/ gcc 2.95.2 - PASSED [presumed normal]
41 Beta 2 released on March 21st, 2001
42 OpenVMS (tested on VMS 7.2-1 for Alpha) - PASSED [presumed normal]
43 solaris64-sparcv9-cc (SunOS 5.8) - PASSED [normal]
44 AIX 4.3 - FAILED [engine]
45 (because it's not automagically configured to use DSO)
47 BSDI 4.0.1 (bsdi-elf-gcc) - PASSED [engine]
48 HP-UX 11.00 32bit (hpux-parisc-gcc) - PASSED [engine]
49 Solaris 8 (solaris-sparv8-gcc) - PASSED [presumed normal]
50 There seems to be something wrong with installing shared
52 UnixWare 2.1.3 (unixware-2.1-pentium) - PASSED [presumed normal]
53 SCO Open Server 5.0.4 (sco5-cc-pentium) - PASSED [presumed normal]
54 SCO Open Server 5.0.4 (sco5-gcc) - PASSED [presumed normal]
55 Caldera eDesktop 2.4 (linux-elf) - PASSED [presumed normal]
56 Caldera eServer 2.3 (linux-elf) - PASSED [presumed normal]
57 Red Hat 6.2 (linux-elf) - PASSED [presumed normal]
58 SCO Open Server 3 (3.2v4.2) (sco3-gcc) - FAILED [presumed normal]
59 Too many -L when linking the application "openssl"
61 Solaris 7 (solaris-sparcv9-cc) - PASSED [engine]
63 Beta 3 released on March 30th, 2001
64 RedHat 6.2/Linux 2.2.14 (linux-elf) - PASSED [normal+engine]
65 HP-UX 11.0 32-bit (hpux-parisc-gcc) - PASSED [engine]
66 AIX 4.3 (aix43-gcc) - PASSED [engine]
67 FreeBSD 4.1 (FreeBSD-elf) - PASSED [engine]
68 Solaris 2.7 (solaris-sparcv9-cc) - PASSED [engine]
69 BSDi 4.0.1 (bsdi-elf-gcc) - PASSED [engine]
71 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
72 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
73 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
74 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
75 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
76 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
77 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
78 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
86 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
87 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
89 EVP cipher enhancement.
90 Enhanced certificate chain verification.
91 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
92 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
93 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
94 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
95 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
96 o Richard is currently working on:
97 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
98 functionality that is currently missing).
99 Shared library support for VMS.
101 Kerberos 5 authentication
106 o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
108 o OpenSSL_0_9_6-stable:
109 #include <openssl/e_os.h> in exported header files is illegal since
110 e_os.h is suitable only for library-internal use.
112 o Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated
113 or an error is reported
117 o crypto/ex_data.c is not really thread-safe and so must be used
118 with care (e.g., extra locking where necessary, or don't call
119 CRYPTO_get_ex_new_index once multiple threads exist).
120 The current API is not suitable for everything that it pretends
123 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
125 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
126 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
127 src/Configure. It confuses.
128 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
129 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
130 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
131 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
132 which are currently in Configure.
134 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
135 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
136 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
137 solution to be really simple.
139 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
140 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
141 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
143 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
144 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
148 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
149 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
150 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
151 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
152 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
153 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
154 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
155 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
158 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
159 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up