2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2000/09/17 11:56:53 $
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
11 ftime not supported [FIXED]
12 hpux-parisc-cc 10.20 - passed
13 hpux-parisc-gcc 10.20 - passed
14 hpux-parisc-gcc 11.00 - passed
16 hpux-brokengcc - failed
19 linux-sparcv7 - passed
21 Solaris [engine] - failed
22 speed cswift gives odd errors [FIXED]
23 solaris-sparcv8-gcc - passed
24 solaris-sparcv9-gcc - passed
25 solaris-sparcv9-cc - passed
26 solaris64-sparcv9-cc - passed
31 PCURSORINFO not defined unless Win2000 [FIXED]
32 RAND_poll() problem on Win2000 [FIXED]
33 DSO method always DSO_METHOD_null [FIXED]
34 CygWin32 - test failed
37 aix-gcc (AIX 4.3.2) - passed
39 Some things were missing [FIXED]
40 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
41 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
42 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
43 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
44 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
45 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
46 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
52 o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
56 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
57 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
58 EVP cipher enhancement.
59 Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
60 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
61 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
62 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
63 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
64 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
65 o Richard is currently working on:
66 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
67 functionality that is currently missing).
68 Dynamic thread-lock support.
69 Shared library support for VMS.
73 o non-blocking socket on AIX
74 o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
75 o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
79 o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
82 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
84 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
85 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
86 src/Configure. It confuses.
87 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
88 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
89 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
90 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
91 which are currently in Configure.
93 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
94 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
95 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
96 solution to be really simple.
98 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
99 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
100 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
102 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
103 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
107 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
108 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
109 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
110 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
111 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
112 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
113 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
114 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
117 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
118 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up