2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2000/02/14 16:58:40 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Under development...
8 Proposed freeze time: Monday, February 21st 2000
9 Proposed release time: Monday, February 28th 2000
10 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
11 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
12 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
13 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
14 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
20 o shared libraries <behnke@trustcenter.de>
21 o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu)
22 o SMIME tool (demo), Sampo Kellomaki <sampo@iki.fi>
23 o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
24 o FreeBSD 3.0 changes (Richard Levitte)
28 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
29 Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
30 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
31 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
32 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
33 Documentation for the openssl utility.
35 o Mark is currently working on:
36 Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
37 not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release. Plus other minor
40 o Ralf is currently working on:
41 1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(),
42 SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and
43 SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing
44 SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed
45 to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in
46 mod_ssl or Apache-SSL.
47 => It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate
48 again for OpenSSL 0.9.3.
49 2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
50 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
51 3. The new documentation set in POD format under doc/
52 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
53 4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the
54 source tree which are not really needed.
55 => Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge
57 o Ben is currently working on:
58 1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues.
59 2. Integrated documentation.
60 3. New TLS Ciphersuites.
61 4. Anything else that takes his fancy.
65 o salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print
66 <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com>
67 o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
68 o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
72 o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
75 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
77 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
78 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
79 src/Configure. It confuses.
80 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
81 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
82 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
83 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
84 which are currently in Configure.
86 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
87 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
88 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
89 solution to be really simple.
91 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
92 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
93 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
95 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
96 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
100 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
101 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
102 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
103 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
104 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
105 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
106 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
107 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
110 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
111 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
115 o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
116 structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
117 for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
118 use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
119 is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
120 an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
121 don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
122 use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
125 o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
127 o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
128 there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)