STATUS

   1
   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2000/09/20 15:22:02 $
   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     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April     1st, 2000
  88     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February 28th, 2000
  89     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August   09th, 1999
  90     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May      29th, 1999
  91     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May      25th, 1999
  92     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March    22th, 1999
  93     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
  94
  95   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
  96
  97   AVAILABLE PATCHES
  98
  99     o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
 100
 101   IN PROGRESS
 102
 103     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
 104         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
 105         EVP cipher enhancement.
 106         Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
 107         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
 108         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
 109         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
 110     o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
 111         ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
 112     o Richard is currently working on:
 113         UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
 114               functionality that is currently missing).
 115         Dynamic thread-lock support.
 116         Shared library support for VMS.
 117
 118   NEEDS PATCH
 119
 120     o  non-blocking socket on AIX
 121     o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
 122     o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
 123
 124   OPEN ISSUES
 125
 126     o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
 127       CA flag ...)
 128
 129     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
 130
 131        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
 132           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
 133           src/Configure. It confuses.
 134           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
 135                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
 136                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
 137                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
 138                       which are currently in Configure.
 139
 140     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
 141        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
 142        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
 143        solution to be really simple.
 144
 145        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
 146                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
 147                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
 148
 149                Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
 150                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
 151                     libcrypto)
 152
 153
 154     o  The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
 155        totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
 156        with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
 157        Net::SSLeay package we can find under
 158        http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html.  Ralf uses this package for a
 159        longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
 160        to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
 161        Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
 162        us.
 163
 164        Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
 165                and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
 166                to date.
 167                Paul +1
 168
 169   WISHES
 170
 171     o