OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 2001/01/12 14:06:26 $
+ ______________ $Date: 2000/09/24 15:42:34 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
- o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development...
- o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Bugfix release -- under development...
o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
- o
-
AVAILABLE PATCHES
- o
+ o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
IN PROGRESS
o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
- OCSP
EVP cipher enhancement.
- Enhanced certificate chain verification.
+ Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
o Richard is currently working on:
UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
functionality that is currently missing).
+ Dynamic thread-lock support.
Shared library support for VMS.
- OCSP
- Kerberos 5 authentication
- Constification
NEEDS PATCH
- o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
-
- o #include <openssl/e_os.h> in exported header files is illegal since
- e_os.h is suitable only for library-internal use
-
- o Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated
- or an error is reported
+ o non-blocking socket on AIX
+ o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
+ o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
OPEN ISSUES
- o crypto/ex_data.c is not really thread-safe and so must be used
- with care (e.g., extra locking where necessary, or don't call
- CRYPTO_get_ex_new_index once multiple threads exist).
- The current API is not suitable for everything that it pretends
- to offer.
+ o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
+ CA flag ...)
o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing: