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3 ______________ $Date: 2001/01/23 12:30:43 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development...
8 o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Bugfix release -- under development...
9 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
10 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
11 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
12 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
13 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
14 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
15 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
16 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
28 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
29 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
31 EVP cipher enhancement.
32 Enhanced certificate chain verification.
33 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
34 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
35 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
36 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
37 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
38 o Richard is currently working on:
39 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
40 functionality that is currently missing).
41 Shared library support for VMS.
43 Kerberos 5 authentication
48 o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
50 o #include <openssl/e_os.h> in exported header files is illegal since
51 e_os.h is suitable only for library-internal use.
53 (This applies to openssl-0.9.6-stable too; openssl/conf.h is the
54 offending header file. While it is rarely used itself by applications,
55 it is included by openssl/x509v3.h, which is more likely to be used.)
57 o Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated
58 or an error is reported
62 o crypto/ex_data.c is not really thread-safe and so must be used
63 with care (e.g., extra locking where necessary, or don't call
64 CRYPTO_get_ex_new_index once multiple threads exist).
65 The current API is not suitable for everything that it pretends
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 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
80 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
81 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
82 solution to be really simple.
84 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
85 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
86 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
88 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
89 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
93 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
94 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
95 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
96 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
97 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
98 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
99 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
100 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
103 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
104 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up