2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2001/03/22 10:59:41 $
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]
40 Beta 2 released on March 21st, 2001
41 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
42 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
43 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
44 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
45 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
46 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
47 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
48 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
56 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
57 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
59 EVP cipher enhancement.
60 Enhanced certificate chain verification.
61 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
62 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
63 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
64 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
65 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
66 o Richard is currently working on:
67 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
68 functionality that is currently missing).
69 Shared library support for VMS.
71 Kerberos 5 authentication
76 o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
78 o OpenSSL_0_9_6-stable:
79 #include <openssl/e_os.h> in exported header files is illegal since
80 e_os.h is suitable only for library-internal use.
82 o Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated
83 or an error is reported
87 o crypto/ex_data.c is not really thread-safe and so must be used
88 with care (e.g., extra locking where necessary, or don't call
89 CRYPTO_get_ex_new_index once multiple threads exist).
90 The current API is not suitable for everything that it pretends
93 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
95 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
96 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
97 src/Configure. It confuses.
98 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
99 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
100 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
101 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
102 which are currently in Configure.
104 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
105 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
106 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
107 solution to be really simple.
109 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
110 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
111 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
113 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
114 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
118 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
119 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
120 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
121 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
122 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
123 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
124 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
125 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
128 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
129 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up