X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=STATUS;h=44cc9901eb3a32534a670460cf137e767e638c10;hp=ca0d94fc1d4bbc8f96f747e1c917e5c6256343b6;hb=2c0ff02fba90ca3d5f9288c6c88ec8c62cd515b5;hpb=726bae3f0fabbe9508f494eed83e96a7039b52e8 diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS index ca0d94fc1d..44cc9901eb 100644 --- a/STATUS +++ b/STATUS @@ -1,62 +1,46 @@ OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at - ______________ $Date: 1999/02/28 20:51:38 $ + ______________ $Date: 2000/02/24 17:17:29 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE - o OpenSSL 0.9.2: Still under development. - Proposed freeze time: Monday, March 8th 1999 - Proposed release time: Monday, March 15th 1999 + o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Under development... + 0.9.5-beta1 is available. + Proposed release time: Monday, 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 Solaris AS error (kenji@miyake.org) - o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) - o s3_lib.c - export clients (levitte@stacken.kth.se) - o linux dynamic libs (colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au) - o MingW support (niklas@canit.se) - o crypto/des/enc_read.c bugfix (mike@cs.mun.ca) + o shared libraries + o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller) + o FreeBSD 3.0 changes (Richard Levitte) IN PROGRESS - o Steve is currently working on: - X509 V3 extension code including: - 1. Support for the more common PKIX extensions. - 2. Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification. - 3. Support in standard applications (req, x509, ca). - 4. Documentation on how all the above works. - Next on the list is probably PKCS#12 integration. - - 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. - 2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-) - 3. The new documentation set in PID format under doc/ - 4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the - source tree which are not really needed. - - 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. + o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order): + 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. + Documentation for the openssl utility. 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 @@ -68,31 +52,6 @@ itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks which are currently in Configure. - 2. The xxx.org -> xxx.h generation: - It's not obvious for which file xxx.org is the source. - Suggestion: Rename xxx.org to xxx.h.in (Autoconf style), this way - one sees that xxx.h.in is the input for xxx.h - - Status: Mark +1 - - 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 @@ -102,6 +61,11 @@ 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 @@ -127,28 +91,10 @@ 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 Mats Nilsson : - "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." - + o