OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 1999/04/27 00:36:14 $
+ ______________ $Date: 2001/07/17 14:39:26 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
- o OpenSSL 1.0: Under development...
- Proposed freeze date: Mon May 8th, 1999
- Proposed release date: Mon May 17th, 1999
- o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
- o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
-
- [ Proposed new numbering scheme: <major>.<minor>[<patchlevel>]
- 0.9.1c is 0913
- 1.0 is 010000
- 1.0 a is 100001
- 1.8 z is 01081a ]
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development...
+ 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
RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
- o Compilation warnings: ctype-related int vs. char
- o BSD/OS: assembler functions must not have leading underscores
- o exptest and rsa_oaep_test fail with irix64-*
- (Don Badrak <dbadrak@geo.census.gov>: "Re: Problems to compile openssl
- on IRIX 6.2", openssl-users)
- o BN_add test fails on Caldera OpenLinux 1.3
- (Marc Christensen <Marc.Christensen@m.cc.utah.edu>
- "Compiles but fails big number test?", openssl-users)
-
AVAILABLE PATCHES
- o OCSP (titchenert@certco.com)
- o Install prefix for packagers (dharris@drh.net)
- o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu)
- o linux dynamic libs (colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au)
- o MingW support (niklas@canit.se)
+ o IA-64 (a.k.a. Intel Itanium) public-key operation performance
+ patch for Linux is available for download at
+ http://www.openssl.org/~appro/096b.linux-ia64.diff. As URL
+ suggests the patch is relative to OpenSSL 0.9.6b.
IN PROGRESS
o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
- Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
- Documentation on X509 V3 extension code.
- PKCS#12 code cleanup and enhancement.
- PKCS #8 and PKCS#5 v2.0 support.
+ ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
+ OCSP
+ EVP cipher enhancement.
+ Enhanced certificate chain verification.
Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
-
- o Mark is currently working on:
- Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
- not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release. Plus other minor
- tidying.
-
- o Ralf is currently working on:
- 1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(),
- SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and
- SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing
- SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed
- to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in
- mod_ssl or Apache-SSL.
- => It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate
- again for OpenSSL 0.9.3.
- 2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
- => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
- 3. The new documentation set in POD format under doc/
- => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
- 4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the
- source tree which are not really needed.
- => Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge
-
- o Ben is currently working on:
- 1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues.
- 2. Integrated documentation.
- 3. New TLS Ciphersuites.
- 4. Anything else that takes his fancy.
+ 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:
+ 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 broken demos
- o salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print
- <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com>
- o Jean-Hugues ROYER <jhroyer@joher.com>: rsa_oaep.c with Watcom C
- o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
- o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
- o dubious declaration of crypt() in des.h
+ o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
+
+ o OpenSSL_0_9_6-stable:
+ #include <openssl/e_os.h> in exported header files is illegal since
+ e_os.h is suitable only for library-internal use.
+
+ o Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated
+ or an error is reported
OPEN ISSUES
+ o crypto/ex_data.c is not really thread-safe and so must be used
+ with care (e.g., extra locking where necessary, or don't call
+ CRYPTO_get_ex_new_index once multiple threads exist).
+ The current API is not suitable for everything that it pretends
+ to offer.
+
o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
1. The config vs. Configure scripts
itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
which are currently in Configure.
- o The installation under "make install" produces a very
- installation layout: $prefix/certs and $prefix/private dirs. That's
- not nice. Ralf suggests to move the two certs and private dirs either
- to $prefix/etc/, $prefix/lib/ or $prefix/share. Alternatively
- we could also not install the certs at all.
-
- Status: Ralf +1 for both not installing the certs at all and
- moving it to $prefix/etc/. +0 for $prefix/lib/
- and $prefix/share.
- Paul: why is it not nice?
- Ralf: because it messes up the install dir when
- $prefix is not a dedicated area like /usr/local/ssl.
- When we move them to a standard subdir like
- etc/ lib/ or share/ we don't mess up things
- when $prefix is /usr or /usr/local, etc.
- Additionally it makes package vendors life
- easier....
-
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
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
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 Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
-
- o > NO_RSA (ejs@bfd.com)
- > ./Configure -DNO_IDEA -DNO_RC5 -DNO_RC4 -DNO_RC2 -DNO_RSA -DNO_ERR linux-elf
- > I tried for a whole day to do this and could not get it to work. Linux
- > machine, kernel 2.0.36 and 2.2.1, redhat 5.2 latest, gcc and egcs , no
- > go. I also noticed the even with -DNO_IDEA, _DNO_RC2, etc. the make
- > still goes into those subdirectories and 'makes'.
-
- o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
- there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)
- or similar.
-
WISHES
- o Damien Miller:
- "How about making the each of the locations compile-time defined. I
- would like to (for example) put binaries in /usr/bin, configuration
- data, certs and keys in /etc/openssl/certs and /etc/openssl/keys, etc.
- This would also be a great boon to binary package makers. The
- SSLeay-0.9.1b RPM already includes some patches which do some of this.
- I can forward them if you wish."
+ o SRP in TLS.
+ [wished by:
+ Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
+ Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
- o Mats Nilsson <mats.nilsson@xware.se>:
- "Add reference counting to all substructures of X509 etc. For instance,
- X509_NAME lacks a reference counter, while EVP_PKEY has one. I'm
- making COM-wrappers for selected parts of SSLeay for a project of ours,
- and has found this inconsistency in copy semantics annoying."
+ 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.
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