2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2001/09/11 12:20:20 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development...
8 o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001
9 o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001
10 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
11 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
12 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
13 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
14 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
15 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
16 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
17 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
23 o IA-64 (a.k.a. Intel Itanium) public-key operation performance
24 patch for Linux is available for download at
25 http://www.openssl.org/~appro/096b.linux-ia64.diff. As URL
26 suggests the patch is relative to OpenSSL 0.9.6b.
30 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
31 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
33 EVP cipher enhancement.
34 Enhanced certificate chain verification.
35 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
36 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
37 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
38 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
39 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
40 o Richard is currently working on:
42 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
43 functionality that is currently missing).
44 Shared library support for VMS.
45 Kerberos 5 authentication
51 o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
53 o OpenSSL_0_9_6-stable:
54 #include <openssl/e_os.h> in exported header files is illegal since
55 e_os.h is suitable only for library-internal use.
57 o Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated
58 or an error is reported
60 o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
64 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
66 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
67 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
68 src/Configure. It confuses.
69 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
70 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
71 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
72 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
73 which are currently in Configure.
75 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
76 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
77 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
78 solution to be really simple.
80 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
81 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
82 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
84 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
85 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
89 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
90 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
91 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
92 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
93 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
94 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
95 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
96 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
99 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
100 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
108 Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
109 Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
111 See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
112 as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
114 Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
115 http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could