2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2000/11/19 14:11:03 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development...
8 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
9 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
10 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
11 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
12 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
13 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
14 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
15 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
21 o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
25 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
26 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
27 EVP cipher enhancement.
28 /* Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification. */
29 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
30 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
31 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
32 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
33 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
34 o Richard is currently working on:
35 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
36 functionality that is currently missing).
37 Shared library support for VMS.
39 Kerberos 5 authentication
44 o non-blocking socket on AIX
45 o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
46 o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
50 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
52 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
53 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
54 src/Configure. It confuses.
55 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
56 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
57 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
58 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
59 which are currently in Configure.
61 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
62 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
63 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
64 solution to be really simple.
66 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
67 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
68 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
70 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
71 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
75 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
76 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
77 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
78 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
79 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
80 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
81 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
82 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
85 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
86 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up