2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 1999/04/21 17:30:41 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Under development...
8 Proposed freeze date: Mon May 8th, 1999
9 Proposed release date: Mon May 17th, 1999
10 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
11 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
15 o Compilation warnings: ctype-related int vs. char
16 o Compilation error: "unsigned long*" and "int*" under AIX
17 o BSD/OS: assembler functions must not have leading underscores
18 o exptest and rsa_oaep_test fail with irix64-*
19 (Don Badrak <dbadrak@geo.census.gov>: "Re: Problems to compile openssl
20 on IRIX 6.2", openssl-users)
21 o BN_add test fails on Caldera OpenLinux 1.3
22 (Marc Christensen <Marc.Christensen@m.cc.utah.edu>
23 "Compiles but fails big number test?", openssl-users)
24 o make test fails on AIX
25 (jvant@bsumail.idbsu.edu on openssl-users)
29 o OCSP (titchenert@certco.com)
30 o Install prefix for packagers (dharris@drh.net)
31 o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu)
32 o linux dynamic libs (colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au)
33 o MingW support (niklas@canit.se)
37 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
38 Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
39 Documentation on X509 V3 extension code.
40 PKCS#12 code cleanup and enhancement.
41 PKCS #8 and PKCS#5 v2.0 support.
42 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
44 o Mark is currently working on:
45 Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
46 not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release. Plus other minor
49 o Ralf is currently working on:
50 1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(),
51 SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and
52 SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing
53 SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed
54 to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in
55 mod_ssl or Apache-SSL.
56 => It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate
57 again for OpenSSL 0.9.3.
58 2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
59 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
60 3. The new documentation set in POD format under doc/
61 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
62 4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the
63 source tree which are not really needed.
64 => Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge
66 o Ben is currently working on:
67 1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues.
68 2. Integrated documentation.
69 3. New TLS Ciphersuites.
70 4. Anything else that takes his fancy.
75 o salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print
76 <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com>
77 o Jean-Hugues ROYER <jhroyer@joher.com>: rsa_oaep.c with Watcom C
78 o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
79 o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
80 o dubious declaration of crypt() in des.h
84 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
86 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
87 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
88 src/Configure. It confuses.
89 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
90 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
91 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
92 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
93 which are currently in Configure.
95 o The installation under "make install" produces a very
96 installation layout: $prefix/certs and $prefix/private dirs. That's
97 not nice. Ralf suggests to move the two certs and private dirs either
98 to $prefix/etc/, $prefix/lib/ or $prefix/share. Alternatively
99 we could also not install the certs at all.
101 Status: Ralf +1 for both not installing the certs at all and
102 moving it to $prefix/etc/. +0 for $prefix/lib/
104 Paul: why is it not nice?
105 Ralf: because it messes up the install dir when
106 $prefix is not a dedicated area like /usr/local/ssl.
107 When we move them to a standard subdir like
108 etc/ lib/ or share/ we don't mess up things
109 when $prefix is /usr or /usr/local, etc.
110 Additionally it makes package vendors life
113 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
114 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
115 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
116 solution to be really simple.
118 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
119 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
120 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
122 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
123 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
124 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
125 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
126 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
127 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
128 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
129 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
132 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
133 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
137 o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
138 structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
139 for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
140 use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
141 is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
142 an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
143 don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
144 use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
147 o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
149 o > NO_RSA (ejs@bfd.com)
150 > ./Configure -DNO_IDEA -DNO_RC5 -DNO_RC4 -DNO_RC2 -DNO_RSA -DNO_ERR linux-elf
151 > I tried for a whole day to do this and could not get it to work. Linux
152 > machine, kernel 2.0.36 and 2.2.1, redhat 5.2 latest, gcc and egcs , no
153 > go. I also noticed the even with -DNO_IDEA, _DNO_RC2, etc. the make
154 > still goes into those subdirectories and 'makes'.
156 o The "exported" header files should not use #include "foo.h", but
157 #include <foo.h> or even better #include <ssl/foo.h> or
158 #include <openssl/foo.h> in order to avoid filename clashes.
160 o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
161 there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)
167 "How about making the each of the locations compile-time defined. I
168 would like to (for example) put binaries in /usr/bin, configuration
169 data, certs and keys in /etc/openssl/certs and /etc/openssl/keys, etc.
170 This would also be a great boon to binary package makers. The
171 SSLeay-0.9.1b RPM already includes some patches which do some of this.
172 I can forward them if you wish."
174 o Mats Nilsson <mats.nilsson@xware.se>:
175 "Add reference counting to all substructures of X509 etc. For instance,
176 X509_NAME lacks a reference counter, while EVP_PKEY has one. I'm
177 making COM-wrappers for selected parts of SSLeay for a project of ours,
178 and has found this inconsistency in copy semantics annoying."