OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 1999/01/02 16:28:51 $
+ ______________ $Date: 2000/02/27 01:15:18 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
- o OpenSSL 0.9.2: Under development.
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Under development...
+ 0.9.5-beta1 is available.
+ Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 - test passed
+ Mingw32 egcs 1.1.2 - test passed
+ FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE - test passed
+ FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE - test passed
+ solaris-sparcv9-cc - test passed
+ solaris-sparcv9-gcc - test passed
+ hpux-parisc-gcc - test passed
+ AIX 4.3 (aix-cc) - test passed
+ VC++ - test passed
+ 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 shared libraries <behnke@trustcenter.de>
+ o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
+ o FreeBSD 3.0 changes (Richard Levitte)
+
IN PROGRESS
- o Ben is folding in his patches
+ 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
itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
which are currently in Configure.
- 2. The massive symlinking of Makefile.ssl -> Makefile:
- First the `make -f Makefile.ssl links' command is nasty, second the
- whole process is slow and third it seems to be done without real
- need. And forth, the dependecies are currently missing. And fifth,
- it's complicated to always go to the top-level in order to get the
- local variables overriden.
- Suggestion: Rename Makefile.ssl to Makefile.in, add
- dependencies to Makefile.in and change the build process
- to _generate_ Makefile out of Makefile.in by
- substituting variables like CC, etc. This solves the
- above problems.
-
- 3. 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
-
- 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
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
to date.
Paul +1
- o Ralf has ported Stephen's pkcs12 program to OpenSSL (the
- ASN.1 stuff Eric recently changed :-( ), but needs some help from
- Stephen at two source locations. Stephen itself also has ported his
- internal pkcs12 0.53 version to OpenSSL, but thinks we still shouldn't
- incorporate it into OpenSSL because it needs more cleanups. Ralf still
- thinks pkcs12 should be incorporated better now than later because it's
- nasty to not have it in the core - one always has to install it
- manually and a lot of people use it. So, should we incorporate it?
- BTW, we have to be carefully because of the pkcs12 license: There are
- some things which don't match the OpenSSL license, so Stephen has to
- change it for us when we want to incorporate the code.
-
- Status: Ralf +1, Stephen -0
+ 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