2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2002/04/25 07:46:45 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development...
8 o OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Feature freeze, beta1 April 17th, 2002
9 o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001
10 o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001
11 o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001
12 o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
13 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
14 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
15 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
16 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
17 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
18 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
19 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
29 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
30 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
32 EVP cipher enhancement.
33 Enhanced certificate chain verification.
34 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
35 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
36 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
37 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
38 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
39 o Richard is currently working on:
41 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
42 functionality that is currently missing).
43 Shared library support for VMS.
44 Kerberos 5 authentication
50 o parameters should be omitted (not NULL) with id-dsa-with-sha1 OID
53 o inappropriate AlgorithmIdentifier used in S/MIME signatures
54 (key type instead of signature algorithm)
56 o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
58 o Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated
59 or an error is reported
61 o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
65 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
67 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
68 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
69 src/Configure. It confuses.
70 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
71 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
72 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
73 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
74 which are currently in Configure.
76 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
77 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
78 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
79 solution to be really simple.
81 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
82 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
83 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
85 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
86 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
90 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
91 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
92 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
93 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
94 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
95 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
96 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
97 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
100 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
101 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
109 Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
110 Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
112 See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
113 as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
115 Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
116 http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could