STATUS

   1
   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2000/09/18 09:36:25 $
   4
   5   DEVELOPMENT STATE
   6
   7     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6:  Under development (in release cycle)...
   8                        Proposed release date September 24, 2000
   9                        0.9.6-beta1 is available:
  10                         OpenBSD-x86 2.7                 - failed
  11                                 ftime not supported [FIXED]
  12                         hpux-parisc-cc 10.20            - passed
  13                         hpux-parisc-gcc 10.20           - passed
  14                         hpux-parisc-gcc 11.00           - passed
  15                         hpux-gcc                        - passed
  16                         hpux-brokengcc                  - failed
  17                                 BN_sqr fails in test
  18                         linux-elf                       - passed
  19                         linux-sparcv7                   - passed
  20                         linux-ppc                       - passed
  21                         Solaris [engine]                - failed
  22                                 speed cswift gives odd errors [FIXED]
  23                         solaris-sparcv8-gcc             - passed
  24                         solaris-sparcv9-gcc             - passed
  25                         solaris-sparcv9-cc              - passed
  26                         solaris64-sparcv9-cc            - passed
  27                         sco5-gcc                        - passed
  28                         sco5-cc                         - passed
  29                         FreeBSD                         - passed
  30                         Win32 VC++                      - failed
  31                                 PCURSORINFO not defined unless Win2000 [FIXED]
  32                                 RAND_poll() problem on Win2000 [FIXED]
  33                                 DSO method always DSO_METHOD_null [FIXED]
  34                         CygWin32                        - test failed
  35                         MingW32                         - failed
  36                                 thelp32.h
  37                         aix-gcc (AIX 4.3.2)             - passed
  38                         VMS/Alpha                       - failed
  39                                 Some things were missing [FIXED]
  40                        0.9.6-beta2 is available:
  41                         sunos-gcc                       - passed
  42                         aix-gcc                         - passed
  43                         Win32 w/ VC6 or Mingw32         - failed
  44                                 RAND_poll(), a few uninitialised vars [FIXED]
  45                                 RAND_poll() should used LoadLibrary instead of
  46                                         GetModuleHandle [FIXED]
  47                                 Major compilation problem with VC6 on NT
  48                                 Mingw32 says "175: parse error before `DWORD'"
  49                         Win32 w/ CygWin                 - success?
  50                         VMS/Alpha 7.1 (CPQ C 5.6-003, TCP/IP 5.0) - success
  51                                 Just a small warning in dso_vms.c [FIXED]
  52                         VMS/Alpha 7.2-1 (CPQ 5.6-003, TCP/IP 5.0A) - success
  53                         VMS/VAX 7.2-1 (CPQ 5.2-003, TCP/IP 5.0) - success
  54                         hpux-parisc-cc (HP-UX B.11.00)  - failed
  55                                 Typo in Configure, -ldl should be -ldld [FIXED]
  56     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April     1st, 2000
  57     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February 28th, 2000
  58     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August   09th, 1999
  59     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May      29th, 1999
  60     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May      25th, 1999
  61     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March    22th, 1999
  62     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
  63
  64   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
  65
  66   AVAILABLE PATCHES
  67
  68     o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
  69
  70   IN PROGRESS
  71
  72     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
  73         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
  74         EVP cipher enhancement.
  75         Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
  76         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
  77         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
  78         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
  79     o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
  80         ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
  81     o Richard is currently working on:
  82         UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
  83               functionality that is currently missing).
  84         Dynamic thread-lock support.
  85         Shared library support for VMS.
  86
  87   NEEDS PATCH
  88
  89     o  non-blocking socket on AIX
  90     o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
  91     o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
  92
  93   OPEN ISSUES
  94
  95     o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
  96       CA flag ...)
  97
  98     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
  99
 100        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
 101           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
 102           src/Configure. It confuses.
 103           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
 104                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
 105                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
 106                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
 107                       which are currently in Configure.
 108
 109     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
 110        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
 111        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
 112        solution to be really simple.
 113
 114        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
 115                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
 116                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
 117
 118                Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
 119                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
 120                     libcrypto)
 121
 122
 123     o  The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
 124        totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
 125        with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
 126        Net::SSLeay package we can find under
 127        http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html.  Ralf uses this package for a
 128        longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
 129        to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
 130        Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
 131        us.
 132
 133        Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
 134                and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
 135                to date.
 136                Paul +1
 137
 138   WISHES
 139
 140     o