STATUS

   1
   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2000/09/18 22:03:37 $
   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                         linux/openbsd (all platforms?)          - mod_exp bug
  42                         sunos-gcc                               - passed
  43                         aix-gcc                                 - passed
  44                         Win32 w/ VC6 or Mingw32                 - failed
  45                                 RAND_poll(), a few uninitialised vars [FIXED]
  46                                 RAND_poll() should used LoadLibrary instead of
  47                                         GetModuleHandle [FIXED]
  48                                 Major compilation problem with VC6 on NT.
  49                                         [FIXED]
  50                                 Mingw32 says "175: parse error before `DWORD'"
  51                                         [FIXED?]
  52                         Win32 w/ CygWin                         - success?
  53                         VMS/Alpha 7.1 (CPQ C 5.6-003, TCP/IP 5.0) - success
  54                                 Just a small warning in dso_vms.c [FIXED]
  55                         VMS/Alpha 7.2-1 (CPQ 5.6-003, TCP/IP 5.0A) - success
  56                         VMS/VAX 7.2-1 (CPQ 5.2-003, TCP/IP 5.0) - success
  57                         hpux-parisc-cc (HP-UX B.11.00)          - failed
  58                                 Typo in Configure, -ldl should be -ldld [FIXED]
  59                         hpux-parisc-cc (10.20 w/ -ldld)         - success
  60                         hpux-parisc-gcc (10.20 w/ -ldld)        - success
  61                         hpux-parisc-cc [engine] (10.20 w/ -ldld)- success
  62                         hpux-parisc-gcc [endine] (10.20 w/ -ldld)- success
  63                                 All hpux 10.20 targets succeeded provided -ldl
  64                                         has been changed to -ldld.
  65                         solaris-sparcv9-gcc (2.6/ultra5)        - success
  66                         solaris-sparcv9-cc (SunOS 5.7 SC3.0)    - failed
  67                                 Complaints about a number of -x parameters to
  68                                         the compiler and failed to compile an
  69                                         assembler file.  Maybe a too old
  70                                         compiler?
  71                         FreeBSD (2.2.5-RELEASE)                 - success
  72                         alpha-cc [engine] (OSF1 5.0A)           - success
  73                         irix-mips3-cc [engine] (Irix 6.2)       - success
  74                                 One has to do the same as for OpenBSD in
  75                                         speed.c [FIXED]
  76     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April     1st, 2000
  77     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February 28th, 2000
  78     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August   09th, 1999
  79     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May      29th, 1999
  80     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May      25th, 1999
  81     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March    22th, 1999
  82     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
  83
  84   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
  85
  86   AVAILABLE PATCHES
  87
  88     o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
  89
  90   IN PROGRESS
  91
  92     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
  93         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
  94         EVP cipher enhancement.
  95         Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
  96         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
  97         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
  98         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
  99     o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
 100         ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
 101     o Richard is currently working on:
 102         UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
 103               functionality that is currently missing).
 104         Dynamic thread-lock support.
 105         Shared library support for VMS.
 106
 107   NEEDS PATCH
 108
 109     o  non-blocking socket on AIX
 110     o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
 111     o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
 112
 113   OPEN ISSUES
 114
 115     o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
 116       CA flag ...)
 117
 118     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
 119
 120        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
 121           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
 122           src/Configure. It confuses.
 123           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
 124                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
 125                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
 126                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
 127                       which are currently in Configure.
 128
 129     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
 130        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
 131        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
 132        solution to be really simple.
 133
 134        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
 135                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
 136                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
 137
 138                Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
 139                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
 140                     libcrypto)
 141
 142
 143     o  The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
 144        totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
 145        with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
 146        Net::SSLeay package we can find under
 147        http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html.  Ralf uses this package for a
 148        longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
 149        to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
 150        Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
 151        us.
 152
 153        Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
 154                and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
 155                to date.
 156                Paul +1
 157
 158   WISHES
 159
 160     o