X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=STATUS;h=4c8abd05386a8014f986b9e715a460cf20c071ae;hp=b9247e93a261bfd680a67a56292f1cd0f1d450b9;hb=bb325c7d6a724f66615965478d670456e1c922d2;hpb=acafc0b4ae452a5cee4e367b2b776338af0a4d4a diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS index b9247e93a2..4c8abd0538 100644 --- a/STATUS +++ b/STATUS @@ -1,46 +1,36 @@ OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at - ______________ $Date: 1999/04/08 20:45:53 $ + ______________ $Date: 2000/02/06 22:01:10 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE - o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Under development... + o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Under development... + Proposed freeze time: Monday, February 7th 2000 + Proposed release time: Monday, February 14th 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 Compilation error: "unsigned long*" and "int*" under AIX - o Undefined BN symbols in assembler stuff on Solaris - (see posting "openssl-SNAP-19990308-2130 on Solaris-2.6 SC4" in openssl-dev) - o BN assembler code in r3000.s, mips*.s and pa-risc*.s is broken - o BSD/OS: assembler functions must not have leading underscores - o Niels Poppe reports that RSA fails with alpha.s - o exptest fails with irix64-* - (Don Badrak : "Re: Problems to compile openssl - on IRIX 6.2", openssl-users) - o BN_add test fails on Caldera OpenLinux 1.3 - (Marc Christensen - "Compiles but fails big number test?", openssl-users) - AVAILABLE PATCHES - o OCSP (titchenert@certco.com) - o unsigned vs. non-unsigned (levitte@stacken.kth.se) - o Install prefix for packagers (dharris@drh.net) + o shared libraries 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 SPARC v9, SPARC v8 assembler implementations of bn_asm.c - (appro@fy.chalmers.se) + o SMIME tool (demo), Sampo Kellomaki + o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller) + o FreeBSD 3.0 changes (Richard Levitte) 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. + 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 Mark is currently working on: Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were @@ -72,18 +62,16 @@ NEEDS PATCH - o broken demos o salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com> - o autogenerated code in pem.h - o Jean-Hugues ROYER : rsa_oaep.c with Watcom C o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file - o add Configure option "rsaref" - o dubious declaration of crypt() in des.h 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 @@ -95,31 +83,6 @@ 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 @@ -129,6 +92,11 @@ 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 @@ -156,34 +124,10 @@ 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 The "exported" header files should not use #include "foo.h", but - #include or even better #include or - #include in order to avoid filename clashes. - 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