2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2000/02/25 20:21:46 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Under development...
8 0.9.5-beta1 is available.
9 Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 - test passed
10 Mingw32 egcs 1.1.2 - test passed
11 FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE - test passed
12 FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE - test passed
13 solaris-sparcv9-cc - test passed
14 solaris-sparcv9-gcc - test passed
15 hpux-parisc-gcc - test passed
16 VC++ - assembler error
17 Proposed release time: Monday, February 28th 2000
18 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
19 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
20 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
21 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
22 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
28 o shared libraries <behnke@trustcenter.de>
29 o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
30 o FreeBSD 3.0 changes (Richard Levitte)
34 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
35 Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
36 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
37 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
38 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
39 Documentation for the openssl utility.
43 o non-blocking socket on AIX
44 o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
45 o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
49 o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
52 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
54 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
55 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
56 src/Configure. It confuses.
57 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
58 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
59 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
60 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
61 which are currently in Configure.
63 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
64 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
65 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
66 solution to be really simple.
68 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
69 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
70 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
72 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
73 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
77 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
78 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
79 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
80 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
81 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
82 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
83 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
84 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
87 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
88 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
92 o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
93 structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
94 for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
95 use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
96 is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
97 an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
98 don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
99 use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
102 o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
103 there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)