STATUS

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   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2000/09/18 16:53:05 $
   4
   5   DEVELOPMENT STATE
   6
   7     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6:  Under development (in release cycle)...
   8                        Proposed release date September 24, 2000
   9                        0.9.6-beta1 is available:
  10                         OpenBSD-x86 2.7                 - failed
  11                                 ftime not supported [FIXED]
  12                         hpux-parisc-cc 10.20            - passed
  13                         hpux-parisc-gcc 10.20           - passed
  14                         hpux-parisc-gcc 11.00           - passed
  15                         hpux-gcc                        - passed
  16                         hpux-brokengcc                  - failed
  17                                 BN_sqr fails in test
  18                         linux-elf                       - passed
  19                         linux-sparcv7                   - passed
  20                         linux-ppc                       - passed
  21                         Solaris [engine]                - failed
  22                                 speed cswift gives odd errors [FIXED]
  23                         solaris-sparcv8-gcc             - passed
  24                         solaris-sparcv9-gcc             - passed
  25                         solaris-sparcv9-cc              - passed
  26                         solaris64-sparcv9-cc            - passed
  27                         sco5-gcc                        - passed
  28                         sco5-cc                         - passed
  29                         FreeBSD                         - passed
  30                         Win32 VC++                      - failed
  31                                 PCURSORINFO not defined unless Win2000 [FIXED]
  32                                 RAND_poll() problem on Win2000 [FIXED]
  33                                 DSO method always DSO_METHOD_null [FIXED]
  34                         CygWin32                        - test failed
  35                         MingW32                         - failed
  36                                 thelp32.h
  37                         aix-gcc (AIX 4.3.2)             - passed
  38                         VMS/Alpha                       - failed
  39                                 Some things were missing [FIXED]
  40                        0.9.6-beta2 is available:
  41                         sunos-gcc                               - passed
  42                         aix-gcc                                 - passed
  43                         Win32 w/ VC6 or Mingw32                 - failed
  44                                 RAND_poll(), a few uninitialised vars [FIXED]
  45                                 RAND_poll() should used LoadLibrary instead of
  46                                         GetModuleHandle [FIXED]
  47                                 Major compilation problem with VC6 on NT.
  48                                         [FIXED]
  49                                 Mingw32 says "175: parse error before `DWORD'"
  50                                         [FIXED?]
  51                         Win32 w/ CygWin                         - success?
  52                         VMS/Alpha 7.1 (CPQ C 5.6-003, TCP/IP 5.0) - success
  53                                 Just a small warning in dso_vms.c [FIXED]
  54                         VMS/Alpha 7.2-1 (CPQ 5.6-003, TCP/IP 5.0A) - success
  55                         VMS/VAX 7.2-1 (CPQ 5.2-003, TCP/IP 5.0) - success
  56                         hpux-parisc-cc (HP-UX B.11.00)          - failed
  57                                 Typo in Configure, -ldl should be -ldld [FIXED]
  58                         hpux-parisc-cc (10.20 w/ -ldld)         - success
  59                         hpux-parisc-gcc (10.20 w/ -ldld)        - success
  60                         hpux-parisc-cc [engine] (10.20 w/ -ldld)- success
  61                         hpux-parisc-gcc [endine] (10.20 w/ -ldld)- success
  62                                 All hpux 10.20 targets succeeded provided -ldl
  63                                         has been changed to -ldld.
  64                         solaris-sparcv9-gcc (2.6/ultra5)        - success
  65                         solaris-sparcv9-cc (SunOS 5.7 SC3.0)    - failed
  66                                 Complaints about a number of -x parameters to
  67                                         the compiler and failed to compile an
  68                                         assembler file.  Maybe a too old
  69                                         compiler?
  70                         FreeBSD (2.2.5-RELEASE)                 - success
  71                         alpha-cc [engine] (OSF1 5.0A)           - success
  72                         irix-mips3-cc [engine] (Irix 6.2)       - success
  73                                 One has to do the same as for OpenBSD in
  74                                         speed.c [FIXED]
  75     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April     1st, 2000
  76     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February 28th, 2000
  77     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August   09th, 1999
  78     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May      29th, 1999
  79     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May      25th, 1999
  80     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March    22th, 1999
  81     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
  82
  83   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
  84
  85   AVAILABLE PATCHES
  86
  87     o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
  88
  89   IN PROGRESS
  90
  91     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
  92         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
  93         EVP cipher enhancement.
  94         Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
  95         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
  96         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
  97         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
  98     o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
  99         ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
 100     o Richard is currently working on:
 101         UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
 102               functionality that is currently missing).
 103         Dynamic thread-lock support.
 104         Shared library support for VMS.
 105
 106   NEEDS PATCH
 107
 108     o  non-blocking socket on AIX
 109     o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
 110     o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
 111
 112   OPEN ISSUES
 113
 114     o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
 115       CA flag ...)
 116
 117     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
 118
 119        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
 120           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
 121           src/Configure. It confuses.
 122           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
 123                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
 124                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
 125                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
 126                       which are currently in Configure.
 127
 128     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
 129        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
 130        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
 131        solution to be really simple.
 132
 133        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
 134                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
 135                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
 136
 137                Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
 138                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
 139                     libcrypto)
 140
 141
 142     o  The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
 143        totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
 144        with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
 145        Net::SSLeay package we can find under
 146        http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html.  Ralf uses this package for a
 147        longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
 148        to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
 149        Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
 150        us.
 151
 152        Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
 153                and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
 154                to date.
 155                Paul +1
 156
 157   WISHES
 158
 159     o