OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 1998/12/31 09:36:11 $
+ ______________ $Date: 2000/09/17 22:36:25 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
- o OpenSSL 0.9.2: Under development.
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Under development (in release cycle)...
+ Proposed release date September 24, 2000
+ 0.9.6-beta1 is available:
+ OpenBSD-x86 2.7 - failed
+ ftime not supported [FIXED]
+ hpux-parisc-cc 10.20 - passed
+ hpux-parisc-gcc 10.20 - passed
+ hpux-parisc-gcc 11.00 - passed
+ hpux-gcc - passed
+ hpux-brokengcc - failed
+ BN_sqr fails in test
+ linux-elf - passed
+ linux-sparcv7 - passed
+ linux-ppc - passed
+ Solaris [engine] - failed
+ speed cswift gives odd errors [FIXED]
+ solaris-sparcv8-gcc - passed
+ solaris-sparcv9-gcc - passed
+ solaris-sparcv9-cc - passed
+ solaris64-sparcv9-cc - passed
+ sco5-gcc - passed
+ sco5-cc - passed
+ FreeBSD - passed
+ Win32 VC++ - failed
+ PCURSORINFO not defined unless Win2000 [FIXED]
+ RAND_poll() problem on Win2000 [FIXED]
+ DSO method always DSO_METHOD_null [FIXED]
+ CygWin32 - test failed
+ MingW32 - failed
+ thelp32.h
+ aix-gcc (AIX 4.3.2) - passed
+ VMS/Alpha - failed
+ Some things were missing [FIXED]
+ 0.9.6-beta1 is available:
+ 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
RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
AVAILABLE PATCHES
- IN PROGRESS
+ o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
- o Ben is folding in his patches
+ IN PROGRESS
- o Ralf has ported Stephen's pkcs12 program to OpenSSL (the
- ASN.1 stuff Eric recently changed :-( ), but needs some
- help from Stephen at two source locations.
-
- o Ralf is currently working on the final www.openssl.org
- website. It'll use no longer frames and will be both look
- perfect in Netscape 4.x _AND_ Lynx 2.7.x.
+ 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.
+ Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
+ 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.
+ Shared library support for VMS.
NEEDS PATCH
+ o non-blocking socket on AIX
+ o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
+ o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
+
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
+ It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
+ src/Configure. It confuses.
+ Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
+ script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
+ Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
+ itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
+ which are currently in Configure.
+
+ o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
+ for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
+ Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
+ solution to be really simple.
+
+ Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
+ 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
+ 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
+
+ WISHES
+
+ o
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