X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=STATUS;h=77b266c14966d62f432ea6ccca5f78d3d06ca0a2;hb=397bd0938aa724cccf4f97eb73f8d8f403670329;hp=593284bee28e5268177c4ca74ca4b25383b566e0;hpb=10243d97fd9d8d3162af7ec4dc582da21703eb62;p=openssl.git diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS index 593284bee2..77b266c149 100644 --- a/STATUS +++ b/STATUS @@ -1,86 +1,51 @@ OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at - ______________ $Date: 1999/05/11 00:52:39 $ + ______________ $Date: 2000/07/02 21:11:11 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE - o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Under development... - Proposed freeze date: Mon May 17th, 1999 - Proposed release date: Mon May 24th, 1999 - Release manager: Ben + o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Under development... + o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000 + o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000 + o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999 + 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 - [ Proposed new numbering scheme: .[] - 0.9.1c is 0913 - 1.0 is 010000 - 1.0 a is 010001 - 1.8 z is 01081a ] - RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS - o BSD/OS: assembler functions must not have leading underscores - o exptest and rsa_oaep_test fail with irix64-* - (Don Badrak : "Re: Problems to compile openssl - on IRIX 6.2", openssl-users) - o BN_add test fails on Caldera OpenLinux 1.3 - (Marc Christensen - "Compiles but fails big number test?", openssl-users) - AVAILABLE PATCHES - o OCSP (titchenert@certco.com) - o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) + o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller) IN PROGRESS o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order): + ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement. + EVP cipher enhancement. 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. + Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code). + Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions. + o Geoff and Richard are currently working on: + ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others). + 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. NEEDS PATCH - o broken demos - o salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print - <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com> - o Compilation warnings: ctype-related int vs. char - o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl + o non-blocking socket on AIX + 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 internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints + CA flag ...) + o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing: 1. The config vs. Configure scripts @@ -101,6 +66,11 @@ compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache into the OpenSSL Configure script. + Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake, + which apparently is not flexible enough to generate + libcrypto) + + o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice @@ -116,35 +86,6 @@ to date. Paul +1 - o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER - structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but - for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to - use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff - is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just - an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open - don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors - use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect - RC2 to adapt). - - 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. - WISHES - 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." - - o Mats Nilsson : - "Add reference counting to all substructures of X509 etc. For instance, - X509_NAME lacks a reference counter, while EVP_PKEY has one. I'm - making COM-wrappers for selected parts of SSLeay for a project of ours, - and has found this inconsistency in copy semantics annoying." - + o