STATUS

   1
   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2000/09/18 13:35:05 $
   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                         solaris-sparcv9-gcc (2.6/ultra5)- success
  57                         FreeBSD (2.2.5-RELEASE)         - success
  58                         solaris-sparcv9-cc (SunOS 5.7 SC3.0) - failed
  59     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April     1st, 2000
  60     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February 28th, 2000
  61     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August   09th, 1999
  62     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May      29th, 1999
  63     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May      25th, 1999
  64     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March    22th, 1999
  65     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
  66
  67   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
  68
  69   AVAILABLE PATCHES
  70
  71     o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
  72
  73   IN PROGRESS
  74
  75     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
  76         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
  77         EVP cipher enhancement.
  78         Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
  79         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
  80         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
  81         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
  82     o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
  83         ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
  84     o Richard is currently working on:
  85         UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
  86               functionality that is currently missing).
  87         Dynamic thread-lock support.
  88         Shared library support for VMS.
  89
  90   NEEDS PATCH
  91
  92     o  non-blocking socket on AIX
  93     o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
  94     o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
  95
  96   OPEN ISSUES
  97
  98     o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
  99       CA flag ...)
 100
 101     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
 102
 103        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
 104           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
 105           src/Configure. It confuses.
 106           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
 107                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
 108                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
 109                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
 110                       which are currently in Configure.
 111
 112     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
 113        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
 114        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
 115        solution to be really simple.
 116
 117        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
 118                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
 119                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
 120
 121                Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
 122                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
 123                     libcrypto)
 124
 125
 126     o  The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
 127        totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
 128        with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
 129        Net::SSLeay package we can find under
 130        http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html.  Ralf uses this package for a
 131        longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
 132        to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
 133        Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
 134        us.
 135
 136        Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
 137                and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
 138                to date.
 139                Paul +1
 140
 141   WISHES
 142
 143     o