STATUS

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   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2000/09/22 06:15:10 $
   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                         linux/openbsd (all platforms?)          - mod_exp bug
  42                         sunos-gcc                               - passed
  43                         aix-gcc                                 - passed
  44                         Win32 w/ VC6 or Mingw32                 - failed
  45                                 RAND_poll(), a few uninitialised vars [FIXED]
  46                                 RAND_poll() should used LoadLibrary instead of
  47                                         GetModuleHandle [FIXED]
  48                                 Major compilation problem with VC6 on NT.
  49                                         [FIXED]
  50                                 Mingw32 says "175: parse error before `DWORD'"
  51                                         [FIXED?]
  52                         Win32 w/ CygWin                         - success?
  53                         VMS/Alpha 7.1 (CPQ C 5.6-003, TCP/IP 5.0) - success
  54                                 Just a small warning in dso_vms.c [FIXED]
  55                         VMS/Alpha 7.2-1 (CPQ 5.6-003, TCP/IP 5.0A) - success
  56                         VMS/VAX 7.2-1 (CPQ 5.2-003, TCP/IP 5.0) - success
  57                         hpux-parisc-cc (HP-UX B.11.00)          - success
  58                         hpux-parisc2-cc (11.00)                 - success
  59                         hpux64-parisc2-cc (11.00)               - success
  60                         hpux-parisc1_1-cc (11.00)               - success
  61                         hpux-parisc-cc (10.20 w/ -ldld)         - success
  62                         hpux-parisc-gcc (10.20 w/ -ldld)        - success
  63                         hpux-parisc-cc [engine] (10.20 w/ -ldld)- success
  64                         hpux-parisc-gcc [endine] (10.20 w/ -ldld)- success
  65                                 All hpux 10.20 targets succeeded provided -ldl
  66                                         has been changed to -ldld.
  67                         solaris-sparcv9-gcc (2.6/ultra5)        - success
  68                         [ solaris-sparcv9-cc (SunOS 5.7 SC3.0)  - failed      ]
  69                         [       Complaints about a number of -x parameters to ]
  70                         [               the compiler and failed to compile an ]
  71                         [               assembler file.  Maybe a too old      ]
  72                         [               compiler? (Yes, apparently:)          ]
  73                         solaris-sparcv9-cc (SunOS 5.6 SC4.2)    - success
  74                         FreeBSD (2.2.5-RELEASE)                 - success
  75                         alpha-cc [engine] (OSF1 5.0A)           - success
  76                         irix-mips3-cc [engine] (Irix 6.2)       - success
  77                                 One has to do the same as for OpenBSD in
  78                                         speed.c [FIXED]
  79                         aix-cc (3.2.5, cc 1.3.0.44)             - success
  80                         aix-gcc (3.2.5, gcc 2.8.1)              - success
  81                                 Both first failed to compiled due to ftime().
  82                                         [FIXED]
  83                         alpha-cc (V4.0E)                        - success
  84                         alpha-gcc (V4.0E, gcc 2.8.1)            - success
  85                         ultrix-cc (V4.5)                        - success
  86                         ultrix-gcc (V4.5, gcc 2.8.1)            - success
  87                        0.9.6-beta3 is available:
  88                         aix-cc (4.3)                            - success
  89                         aix-cc [engine] (4.3)                   - success
  90                         linux-elf (RedHat 5.2, gcc 2.7.2.3)     - success
  91                         linux-elf (RedHat 6.2)                  - success
  92                         linux-elf [engine] (RedHat 6.2)         - success
  93                         solaris-sparcv9-gcc (5.7, gcc 2.95.2)   - success
  94                         solaris-sparcv9-gcc (5.6, gcc 2.95.2)   - success
  95                         solaris-sparcv9-cc (5.6, SunWS C 4.2)   - success
  96                         solaris-sparcv9-cc [engine] (5.6, SunWS C 4.2)- success
  97                         VC-WIN32 (NT4 SP6, VC6 SP2)             - success
  98                         VC-WIN32 (NT4 SP6, Cygwin)              - success
  99                                 The files used for testing must have CR/LF
 100                                         as line endings.
 101                         VC-WIN32 (NT4 SP6, Mingw32)             - failed
 102                                 mingw32a.mak contains a few lines that
 103                                         generate an error.
 104                         VC-NT static libs (NT4 SP6, VC6 SP4)    - failed
 105                                 Complains about unresolved external symbol
 106                                         __imp__RegQueryValueEx.  This only
 107                                         happens when building the static
 108                                         libraries.  Tests pass as soon as
 109                                         you make sure advapi32.lib gets
 110                                         linked in. [FIXED]
 111                         VC-NT dynamic libs (NT4 SP6, VC6 SP4)   - success
 112                         VC-WIN32 (W2K Pro SP1, VC6 SP3, PSDK Jul2000)- success
 113                         hpux-parisc-gcc (B.10.20, gcc 2.95.2)   - success
 114                         hpux-parisc-cc (B.10.20, cc A.10.32.30) - success
 115                         hpux-parisc-gcc [engine] (B.10.20, gcc 2.95.2)- success
 116                         hpux-parisc-cc [engine] (B.10.20, cc A.10.32.30)- success
 117                         hpux-parisc2-cc (B.11.11)               - success
 118                         hpux64-parisc2-cc (B.11.11)             - success
 119                                 Kevin Steves also mentions that "All the new
 120                                 targets look good on my end with hp-ux 11.0."
 121                         MPE/iX-gcc                              - success
 122                         FreeBSD (2.2.5)                         - failed
 123                                 Only having USE_TOD made speed.c issue an
 124                                         error. [FIXED]
 125                         FreeBSD-alpha (4.1, gcc 2.95.2)         - success
 126                                 The USE_TOD fix needed to be applied.
 127                                 There were warnings about -O3 triggering
 128                                         known optimizer bugs on that
 129                                         platform. [FIXED]
 130                         OpenBSD-x86 (2.7, gcc 2.95.2)           - success
 131                         alpha-cc (OSF1 V4.0)                    - success
 132                         solaris-x86-gcc (5.8, gcc 2.95.2)       - success
 133     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April     1st, 2000
 134     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February 28th, 2000
 135     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August   09th, 1999
 136     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May      29th, 1999
 137     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May      25th, 1999
 138     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March    22th, 1999
 139     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
 140
 141   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
 142
 143   AVAILABLE PATCHES
 144
 145     o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
 146
 147   IN PROGRESS
 148
 149     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
 150         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
 151         EVP cipher enhancement.
 152         Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
 153         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
 154         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
 155         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
 156     o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
 157         ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
 158     o Richard is currently working on:
 159         UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
 160               functionality that is currently missing).
 161         Dynamic thread-lock support.
 162         Shared library support for VMS.
 163
 164   NEEDS PATCH
 165
 166     o  non-blocking socket on AIX
 167     o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
 168     o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
 169
 170   OPEN ISSUES
 171
 172     o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
 173       CA flag ...)
 174
 175     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
 176
 177        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
 178           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
 179           src/Configure. It confuses.
 180           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
 181                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
 182                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
 183                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
 184                       which are currently in Configure.
 185
 186     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
 187        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
 188        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
 189        solution to be really simple.
 190
 191        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
 192                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
 193                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
 194
 195                Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
 196                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
 197                     libcrypto)
 198
 199
 200     o  The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
 201        totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
 202        with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
 203        Net::SSLeay package we can find under
 204        http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html.  Ralf uses this package for a
 205        longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
 206        to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
 207        Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
 208        us.
 209
 210        Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
 211                and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
 212                to date.
 213                Paul +1
 214
 215   WISHES
 216
 217     o