X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=STATUS;h=fae94c635574e636b6b03631ef3dbbba0f002888;hb=35b73a1f2069f17c6cde57ff534d5b09a5e4be02;hp=81eab7eb5b9b705443bda68cab7237471a96c6d2;hpb=6e56312f1a06cf580a41aba5e5e72d531fc3456b;p=openssl.git diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS index 81eab7eb5b..fae94c6355 100644 --- a/STATUS +++ b/STATUS @@ -1,52 +1,66 @@ OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at - ______________ $Date: 2000/03/23 22:01:25 $ + ______________ $Date: 2002/07/30 11:32:47 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE - o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Under development... - 0.9.5a-beta1 is available. - sunos-gcc - failed (ssize_t) - ultrix-gcc, ultrix-cc - failed (ssize_t) - sco5-cc - bc fails in test - VC-Win32 (MSVC6SP3, nasm) - failed (fixed) - FreeBSD-elf (i686-pc-freebsd3.2)- failed (fixed) - HPUX (hpux-parisc-cc w/ +02) - passed - OpenBSD-x86 - passed - solaris-sparcv9-cc - passed - 0.9.5a-beta2 is available. - 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 + o OpenSSL 0.9.8: Under development... + o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta3: Released on July 30th, 2002 + o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta2: Released on June 16th, 2002 + o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta1: Released on June 1st, 2002 + o OpenSSL 0.9.6e: Released on July 30th, 2002 + o OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Released on May 9th, 2002 + o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001 + o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001 + 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 + 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 + + [See also http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html] RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS + o BN_mod_mul verification fails for mips3-sgi-irix + unless configured with no-asm + AVAILABLE PATCHES - o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller) + o IN PROGRESS o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order): - Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification. + ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement. + OCSP + EVP cipher enhancement. + 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. - Documentation for the openssl utility. + o Geoff and Richard are currently working on: + ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others). + o Richard is currently working on: + UI (User Interface) + UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level + functionality that is currently missing). + Shared library support for VMS. + Kerberos 5 authentication + Constification + OCSP 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 - OPEN ISSUES + o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date. - o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints - CA flag ...) + OPEN ISSUES o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing: @@ -72,36 +86,20 @@ which apparently is not flexible enough to generate libcrypto) + WISHES - 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 - Net::SSLeay package we can find under - http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a - longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be - to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a - Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for - us. - - Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay - and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up - 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 ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is, - there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize) - or similar. + o Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?] + where the callback function can request that the function be aborted. + [Gregory Stark , ] - WISHES + o SRP in TLS. + [wished by: + Dj , Tom Wu , + Tom Holroyd ] - o + See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt + as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/. + + Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at + http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could + be useful.