2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 1999/03/29 00:19:51 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Under development...
8 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
9 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
13 o Compilation warnings: ctype-related int vs. char
14 o Compilation error: "unsigned long*" and "int*" under AIX
15 o A Linux alpha user reported: "alpha.s does not have bn_div_word()"
16 (see posting "ALPHA error" in openssl-dev)
17 o Undefined BN symbols in assembler stuff on Solaris
18 (see posting "openssl-SNAP-19990308-2130 on Solaris-2.6 SC4" in openssl-dev)
22 o Solaris AS error (kenji@miyake.org)
23 o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu)
24 o s3_lib.c - export clients (levitte@stacken.kth.se)
25 o linux dynamic libs (colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au)
26 o MingW support (niklas@canit.se)
27 o crypto/des/enc_read.c bugfix (mike@cs.mun.ca)
31 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
32 PKCS#12 code integration.
33 Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
34 Documentation on X509 V3 extension code.
36 o Mark is currently working on:
37 Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
38 not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release. Plus other minor
41 o Ralf is currently working on:
42 1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(),
43 SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and
44 SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing
45 SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed
46 to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in
47 mod_ssl or Apache-SSL.
48 => It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate
49 again for OpenSSL 0.9.3.
50 2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
51 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
52 3. The new documentation set in POD format under doc/
53 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
54 4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the
55 source tree which are not really needed.
56 => Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge
58 o Ben is currently working on:
59 1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues.
60 2. Integrated documentation.
61 3. New TLS Ciphersuites.
62 4. Anything else that takes his fancy.
68 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
70 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
71 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
72 src/Configure. It confuses.
73 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
74 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
75 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
76 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
77 which are currently in Configure.
79 2. The xxx.org -> xxx.h generation:
80 It's not obvious for which file xxx.org is the source.
81 Suggestion: Rename xxx.org to xxx.h.in (Autoconf style), this way
82 one sees that xxx.h.in is the input for xxx.h
86 o The installation under "make install" produces a very
87 installation layout: $prefix/certs and $prefix/private dirs. That's
88 not nice. Ralf suggests to move the two certs and private dirs either
89 to $prefix/etc/, $prefix/lib/ or $prefix/share. Alternatively
90 we could also not install the certs at all.
92 Status: Ralf +1 for both not installing the certs at all and
93 moving it to $prefix/etc/. +0 for $prefix/lib/
95 Paul: why is it not nice?
96 Ralf: because it messes up the install dir when
97 $prefix is not a dedicated area like /usr/local/ssl.
98 When we move them to a standard subdir like
99 etc/ lib/ or share/ we don't mess up things
100 when $prefix is /usr or /usr/local, etc.
101 Additionally it makes package vendors life
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 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
114 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
115 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
116 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
117 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
118 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
119 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
120 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
123 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
124 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
128 o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
129 structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
130 for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
131 use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
132 is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
133 an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
134 don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
135 use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
138 o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
140 o > NO_RSA (ejs@bfd.com)
141 > ./Configure -DNO_IDEA -DNO_RC5 -DNO_RC4 -DNO_RC2 -DNO_RSA -DNO_ERR linux-elf
142 > I tried for a whole day to do this and could not get it to work. Linux
143 > machine, kernel 2.0.36 and 2.2.1, redhat 5.2 latest, gcc and egcs , no
144 > go. I also noticed the even with -DNO_IDEA, _DNO_RC2, etc. the make
145 > still goes into those subdirectories and 'makes'.
150 "How about making the each of the locations compile-time defined. I
151 would like to (for example) put binaries in /usr/bin, configuration
152 data, certs and keys in /etc/openssl/certs and /etc/openssl/keys, etc.
153 This would also be a great boon to binary package makers. The
154 SSLeay-0.9.1b RPM already includes some patches which do some of this.
155 I can forward them if you wish."
157 o Mats Nilsson <mats.nilsson@xware.se>:
158 "Add reference counting to all substructures of X509 etc. For instance,
159 X509_NAME lacks a reference counter, while EVP_PKEY has one. I'm
160 making COM-wrappers for selected parts of SSLeay for a project of ours,
161 and has found this inconsistency in copy semantics annoying."