OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 1999/01/30 17:34:59 $
+ ______________ $Date: 1999/05/31 12:43:28 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
- o OpenSSL 0.9.2: Under development.
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Under development...
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
+ o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
+ CA flag ...)
+
AVAILABLE PATCHES
+ o OCSP (titchenert@certco.com)
+ o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu)
+
IN PROGRESS
- o Steve is currently working on:
- X509 V3 extension code including:
- 1. Support for the more common PKIX extensions.
- 2. Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
- 3. Support in standard applications (req, x509, ca).
- 4. Documentation on how all the above works.
- Next on the list is probably PKCS#12 integration.
+ o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
+ Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
+ Documentation on X509 V3 extension code.
+ PKCS #8 and PKCS#5 v2.0 support.
+ Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
+ Checking and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
+
+ o Mark is currently working on:
+ Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
+ not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release. Plus other minor
+ tidying.
+
+ o Ralf is currently working on:
+ 1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(),
+ SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and
+ SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing
+ SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed
+ to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in
+ mod_ssl or Apache-SSL.
+ => It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate
+ again for OpenSSL 0.9.3.
+ 2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
+ => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
+ 3. The new documentation set in POD format under doc/
+ => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
+ 4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the
+ source tree which are not really needed.
+ => Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge
+
+ o Ben is currently working on:
+ 1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues.
+ 2. Integrated documentation.
+ 3. New TLS Ciphersuites.
+ 4. Anything else that takes his fancy.
NEEDS PATCH
+ o broken demos
+ o salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print
+ <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com>
+ o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
+ o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
+ o dubious declaration of crypt() in des.h
+
OPEN ISSUES
o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
which are currently in Configure.
- 2. The xxx.org -> xxx.h generation:
- It's not obvious for which file xxx.org is the source.
- Suggestion: Rename xxx.org to xxx.h.in (Autoconf style), this way
- one sees that xxx.h.in is the input for xxx.h
-
- o The installation under "make install" produces a very
- installation layout: $prefix/certs and $prefix/private dirs. That's
- not nice. Ralf suggests to move the two certs and private dirs either
- to $prefix/etc/, $prefix/lib/ or $prefix/share. Alternatively
- we could also not install the certs at all.
-
- Status: Ralf +1 for both not installing the certs at all and
- moving it to $prefix/etc/. +0 for $prefix/lib/
- and $prefix/share.
- Paul: why is it not nice?
- Ralf: because it messes up the install dir when
- $prefix is not a dedicated area like /usr/local/ssl.
- When we move them to a standard subdir like
- etc/ lib/ or share/ we don't mess up things
- when $prefix is /usr or /usr/local, etc.
- Additionally it makes package vendors life
- easier....
-
o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
RC2 to adapt).
- WISHES
+ o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
+
+ o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
+ there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)
+ or similar.
- o Damien Miller:
- "How about making the each of the locations compile-time defined. I
- would like to (for example) put binaries in /usr/bin, configuration
- data, certs and keys in /etc/openssl/certs and /etc/openssl/keys, etc.
- This would also be a great boon to binary package makers. The
- SSLeay-0.9.1b RPM already includes some patches which do some of this.
- I can forward them if you wish."
+ WISHES
+ o