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3 ______________ $Date: 1999/05/20 01:42:57 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Freezed... only bugfixes and cleanups allowed!
8 Proposed release date: Mon May 24th, 1999
9 Release manager: Ben Laurie <ben@openssl.org>
10 !! Important: Any non-bugfix, non-cleanup
11 !! and non-documentation commits should
12 !! be approved by Ben, first.
14 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
15 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
19 o BSD/OS: assembler functions must not have leading underscores
23 o OCSP (titchenert@certco.com)
24 o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu)
28 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
29 Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
30 Documentation on X509 V3 extension code.
31 PKCS #8 and PKCS#5 v2.0 support.
32 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
33 Checking and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
35 o Mark is currently working on:
36 Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
37 not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release. Plus other minor
40 o Ralf is currently working on:
41 1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(),
42 SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and
43 SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing
44 SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed
45 to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in
46 mod_ssl or Apache-SSL.
47 => It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate
48 again for OpenSSL 0.9.3.
49 2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
50 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
51 3. The new documentation set in POD format under doc/
52 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
53 4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the
54 source tree which are not really needed.
55 => Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge
57 o Ben is currently working on:
58 1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues.
59 2. Integrated documentation.
60 3. New TLS Ciphersuites.
61 4. Anything else that takes his fancy.
66 o salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print
67 <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com>
68 o [ Compilation warnings: ctype-related int vs. char ]
69 => now casts (unsigned char), maybe those arrays should have
70 members of that type rather than plain char (i.e.
71 unsigned char *p; ....; if (isspace(*p)) ...; where it's now
72 char *p; ....; if (isspace((unsigned char)*p)) ...;)
73 o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
74 o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
75 o dubious declaration of crypt() in des.h
79 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
81 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
82 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
83 src/Configure. It confuses.
84 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
85 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
86 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
87 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
88 which are currently in Configure.
90 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
91 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
92 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
93 solution to be really simple.
95 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
96 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
97 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
99 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
100 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
101 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
102 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
103 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
104 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
105 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
106 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
109 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
110 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
114 o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
115 structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
116 for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
117 use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
118 is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
119 an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
120 don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
121 use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
124 o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
126 o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
127 there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)
132 o Mats Nilsson <mats.nilsson@xware.se>:
133 "Add reference counting to all substructures of X509 etc. For instance,
134 X509_NAME lacks a reference counter, while EVP_PKEY has one. I'm
135 making COM-wrappers for selected parts of SSLeay for a project of ours,
136 and has found this inconsistency in copy semantics annoying."