X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=STATUS;h=e3b3a089663f698221ca416c9fe9e2dee1b4bf83;hp=49dd7e263b60a449fdc57620d2a10ff9ef064c53;hb=27bfba299e6c8577deee2c70177508246e5888fe;hpb=cdbd4a7229165764abb0cd9c6174604b42ac2ca9 diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS index 49dd7e263b..e3b3a08966 100644 --- a/STATUS +++ b/STATUS @@ -1,45 +1,62 @@ OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at - ______________ $Date: 2000/03/20 15:56:14 $ + ______________ $Date: 2001/06/04 06:51:43 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE - o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Under development... - 0.9.5a-beta1 is available. - VC-Win32 (MSVC6SP3, nasm) - failed compilation - FreeBSD-elf (i686-pc-freebsd3.2)- failed compilation - 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 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: @@ -81,20 +98,9 @@ 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 - o + o SRP in TLS. + See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt + as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/. + [wished by Dj and Tom Wu ]