OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 2001/03/14 06:57:16 $
+ ______________ $Date: 2001/04/05 17:42:00 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
- o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: In development...
- Beta 1 released on March 13th, 2001
- HP-UX 10.20 (hpux-parisc-cc) - PASSED [normal+engine]
- HP-UX 10.20 (hpux-parisc-gcc) - PASSED [normal+engine]
- HP-UX 11.00 32bit (hpux-parisc-gcc) - FAILED [engine]
- "openssl speed rsa1024 -engine cswift" fails unless
- libswift.sl is in $CWD, even if $SHLIB_PATH is defined.
- Linux 2.2.17 SMP (linux-elf) - PASSED [normal+engine]
- Windows (VC-WIN32) - FAILED [presumed normal]
- Missing line in ms/32all.bat:
- perl util\mkfiles.pl >MINFO
- [CORRECTED]
- In randfile.c, line 214, signed and unsigned int are mixed.
- In s_client.c and s_server.c, RAND_status() needs to get
- declared (#include <oenssl/rand.h>)
- OpenVMS (any version) - FAILED [normal+engine]
- Missing istructions in building script.
- AIX 4.3 - FAILED [engine]
- Needs -DDSO_DLFCN and -DHAVE_DLFCN_H to work.
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001
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
AVAILABLE PATCHES
- 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.
- Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
+ Enhanced 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 non-blocking socket on AIX
- o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
- o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
+ o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
+
+ o OpenSSL_0_9_6-stable:
+ #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
OPEN ISSUES
- o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
- CA flag ...)
+ 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 The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing: