2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 1999/03/08 21:56:46 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.2: Freezed!
8 - No more feature commits, please.
9 - Commit bugfixes and cleanups only, please.
10 - Already successfully tested platform:
11 o FreeBSD 2.2.7 Ben Laurie OK
12 o FreeBSD 3.1 Ralf S. Engelschall all silent
13 o Solaris 2.6 Ralf S. Engelschall ctype-related warnings, test fails
15 Proposed release time: Monday, March 15th 1999
17 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
23 o Solaris AS error (kenji@miyake.org)
24 o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu)
25 o s3_lib.c - export clients (levitte@stacken.kth.se)
26 o linux dynamic libs (colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au)
27 o MingW support (niklas@canit.se)
28 o crypto/des/enc_read.c bugfix (mike@cs.mun.ca)
32 o Steve is currently working on:
33 X509 V3 extension code including:
34 1. Support for the more common PKIX extensions.
35 2. Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
36 3. Support in standard applications (req, x509, ca).
37 4. Documentation on how all the above works.
38 Next on the list is probably PKCS#12 integration.
40 o Mark is currently working on:
41 Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
42 not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release. Plus other minor
45 o Ralf is currently working on:
46 1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(),
47 SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and
48 SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing
49 SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed
50 to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in
51 mod_ssl or Apache-SSL.
52 => It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate
53 again for OpenSSL 0.9.3.
54 2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
55 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
56 3. The new documentation set in POD format under doc/
57 => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
58 4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the
59 source tree which are not really needed.
60 => Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge
62 o Ben is currently working on:
63 1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues.
64 2. Integrated documentation.
65 3. New TLS Ciphersuites.
66 4. Anything else that takes his fancy.
72 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
74 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
75 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
76 src/Configure. It confuses.
77 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
78 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
79 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
80 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
81 which are currently in Configure.
83 2. The xxx.org -> xxx.h generation:
84 It's not obvious for which file xxx.org is the source.
85 Suggestion: Rename xxx.org to xxx.h.in (Autoconf style), this way
86 one sees that xxx.h.in is the input for xxx.h
90 o The installation under "make install" produces a very
91 installation layout: $prefix/certs and $prefix/private dirs. That's
92 not nice. Ralf suggests to move the two certs and private dirs either
93 to $prefix/etc/, $prefix/lib/ or $prefix/share. Alternatively
94 we could also not install the certs at all.
96 Status: Ralf +1 for both not installing the certs at all and
97 moving it to $prefix/etc/. +0 for $prefix/lib/
99 Paul: why is it not nice?
100 Ralf: because it messes up the install dir when
101 $prefix is not a dedicated area like /usr/local/ssl.
102 When we move them to a standard subdir like
103 etc/ lib/ or share/ we don't mess up things
104 when $prefix is /usr or /usr/local, etc.
105 Additionally it makes package vendors life
108 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
109 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
110 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
111 solution to be really simple.
113 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
114 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
115 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
117 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
118 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
119 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
120 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
121 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
122 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
123 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
124 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
127 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
128 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
132 o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
133 structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
134 for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
135 use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
136 is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
137 an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
138 don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
139 use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
142 o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
144 o > NO_RSA (ejs@bfd.com)
145 > ./Configure -DNO_IDEA -DNO_RC5 -DNO_RC4 -DNO_RC2 -DNO_RSA -DNO_ERR linux-elf
146 > I tried for a whole day to do this and could not get it to work. Linux
147 > machine, kernel 2.0.36 and 2.2.1, redhat 5.2 latest, gcc and egcs , no
148 > go. I also noticed the even with -DNO_IDEA, _DNO_RC2, etc. the make
149 > still goes into those subdirectories and 'makes'.
154 "How about making the each of the locations compile-time defined. I
155 would like to (for example) put binaries in /usr/bin, configuration
156 data, certs and keys in /etc/openssl/certs and /etc/openssl/keys, etc.
157 This would also be a great boon to binary package makers. The
158 SSLeay-0.9.1b RPM already includes some patches which do some of this.
159 I can forward them if you wish."
161 o Mats Nilsson <mats.nilsson@xware.se>:
162 "Add reference counting to all substructures of X509 etc. For instance,
163 X509_NAME lacks a reference counter, while EVP_PKEY has one. I'm
164 making COM-wrappers for selected parts of SSLeay for a project of ours,
165 and has found this inconsistency in copy semantics annoying."