OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 2000/03/24 12:40:28 $
+ ______________ $Date: 2001/04/09 07:15:16 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
- o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Under development...
- 0.9.5a-beta1 is available.
- sunos-gcc - failed (ssize_t)
- ultrix-gcc, ultrix-cc - failed (ssize_t)
- sco5-cc - bc fails in test
- VC-Win32 (MSVC6SP3, nasm) - failed (fixed)
- FreeBSD-elf (i686-pc-freebsd3.2)- failed (fixed)
- HPUX (hpux-parisc-cc w/ +02) - passed
- OpenBSD-x86 - passed
- solaris-sparcv9-cc - passed
- 0.9.5a-beta2 is available.
- linux-elf - passed
- OpenBSD-elf - passed
- FreeBSD-elf (i586-pc-freebsd3.2)- passed
- solaris-sparcv9-cc - passed
- solaris-sparcv9-gcc - passed
- Mingw32 - passed
- VMS/Alpha 7.1 w/ DEC C 5.6-003 - passed
-
- 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
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development...
+ 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
AVAILABLE PATCHES
- o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
-
IN PROGRESS
o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
- Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
+ ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
+ OCSP
+ EVP cipher enhancement.
+ Enhanced 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.
- Documentation for the openssl utility.
+ 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).
+ Shared library support for VMS.
+ OCSP
+ Kerberos 5 authentication
+ Constification
NEEDS PATCH
- o non-blocking socket on AIX
- o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
- o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
+ 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 internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
- CA flag ...)
+ 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:
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 ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
- there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)
- or similar.
-
WISHES
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