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3 ______________ $Date: 1999/03/08 09:43:53 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.2: Freezed:
8 - No more feature commits, please.
9 - Commit bugfixes and cleanups only, please.
10 Proposed release time: Monday, March 15th 1999
11 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
17 o Solaris AS error (kenji@miyake.org)
18 o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu)
19 o s3_lib.c - export clients (levitte@stacken.kth.se)
20 o linux dynamic libs (colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au)
21 o MingW support (niklas@canit.se)
22 o crypto/des/enc_read.c bugfix (mike@cs.mun.ca)
26 o Steve is currently working on:
27 X509 V3 extension code including:
28 1. Support for the more common PKIX extensions.
29 2. Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
30 3. Support in standard applications (req, x509, ca).
31 4. Documentation on how all the above works.
32 Next on the list is probably PKCS#12 integration.
34 o Mark is currently working on:
35 Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
36 not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release. Plus other minor
39 o Ralf is currently working on:
40 1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(),
41 SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and
42 SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing
43 SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed
44 to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in
45 mod_ssl or Apache-SSL.
46 => It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate
47 again for OpenSSL 0.9.3.
48 2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
49 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
50 3. The new documentation set in PID format under doc/
51 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
52 4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the
53 source tree which are not really needed.
54 => Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge
56 o Ben is currently working on:
57 1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues.
58 2. Integrated documentation.
59 3. New TLS Ciphersuites.
60 4. Anything else that takes his fancy.
66 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
68 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
69 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
70 src/Configure. It confuses.
71 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
72 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
73 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
74 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
75 which are currently in Configure.
77 2. The xxx.org -> xxx.h generation:
78 It's not obvious for which file xxx.org is the source.
79 Suggestion: Rename xxx.org to xxx.h.in (Autoconf style), this way
80 one sees that xxx.h.in is the input for xxx.h
84 o The installation under "make install" produces a very
85 installation layout: $prefix/certs and $prefix/private dirs. That's
86 not nice. Ralf suggests to move the two certs and private dirs either
87 to $prefix/etc/, $prefix/lib/ or $prefix/share. Alternatively
88 we could also not install the certs at all.
90 Status: Ralf +1 for both not installing the certs at all and
91 moving it to $prefix/etc/. +0 for $prefix/lib/
93 Paul: why is it not nice?
94 Ralf: because it messes up the install dir when
95 $prefix is not a dedicated area like /usr/local/ssl.
96 When we move them to a standard subdir like
97 etc/ lib/ or share/ we don't mess up things
98 when $prefix is /usr or /usr/local, etc.
99 Additionally it makes package vendors life
102 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
103 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
104 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
105 solution to be really simple.
107 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
108 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
109 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
111 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
112 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
113 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
114 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
115 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
116 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
117 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
118 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
121 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
122 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
126 o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
127 structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
128 for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
129 use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
130 is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
131 an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
132 don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
133 use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
136 o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
138 o > NO_RSA (ejs@bfd.com)
139 > ./Configure -DNO_IDEA -DNO_RC5 -DNO_RC4 -DNO_RC2 -DNO_RSA -DNO_ERR linux-elf
140 > I tried for a whole day to do this and could not get it to work. Linux
141 > machine, kernel 2.0.36 and 2.2.1, redhat 5.2 latest, gcc and egcs , no
142 > go. I also noticed the even with -DNO_IDEA, _DNO_RC2, etc. the make
143 > still goes into those subdirectories and 'makes'.
148 "How about making the each of the locations compile-time defined. I
149 would like to (for example) put binaries in /usr/bin, configuration
150 data, certs and keys in /etc/openssl/certs and /etc/openssl/keys, etc.
151 This would also be a great boon to binary package makers. The
152 SSLeay-0.9.1b RPM already includes some patches which do some of this.
153 I can forward them if you wish."
155 o Mats Nilsson <mats.nilsson@xware.se>:
156 "Add reference counting to all substructures of X509 etc. For instance,
157 X509_NAME lacks a reference counter, while EVP_PKEY has one. I'm
158 making COM-wrappers for selected parts of SSLeay for a project of ours,
159 and has found this inconsistency in copy semantics annoying."