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3 ______________ $Date: 2000/03/06 14:24:25 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Under development...
8 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
9 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
10 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
11 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
12 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
13 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
19 o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
23 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
24 Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
25 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
26 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
27 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
28 Documentation for the openssl utility.
32 o non-blocking socket on AIX
33 o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
34 o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
38 o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
41 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
43 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
44 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
45 src/Configure. It confuses.
46 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
47 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
48 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
49 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
50 which are currently in Configure.
52 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
53 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
54 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
55 solution to be really simple.
57 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
58 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
59 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
61 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
62 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
66 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
67 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
68 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
69 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
70 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
71 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
72 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
73 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
76 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
77 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
81 o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
82 structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
83 for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
84 use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
85 is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
86 an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
87 don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
88 use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
91 o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
92 there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)