STATUS

   1
   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2000/09/19 16:14:47 $
   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?
  73                         FreeBSD (2.2.5-RELEASE)                 - success
  74                         alpha-cc [engine] (OSF1 5.0A)           - success
  75                         irix-mips3-cc [engine] (Irix 6.2)       - success
  76                                 One has to do the same as for OpenBSD in
  77                                         speed.c [FIXED]
  78     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April     1st, 2000
  79     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February 28th, 2000
  80     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August   09th, 1999
  81     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May      29th, 1999
  82     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May      25th, 1999
  83     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March    22th, 1999
  84     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
  85
  86   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
  87
  88   AVAILABLE PATCHES
  89
  90     o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
  91
  92   IN PROGRESS
  93
  94     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
  95         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
  96         EVP cipher enhancement.
  97         Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
  98         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
  99         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
 100         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
 101     o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
 102         ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
 103     o Richard is currently working on:
 104         UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
 105               functionality that is currently missing).
 106         Dynamic thread-lock support.
 107         Shared library support for VMS.
 108
 109   NEEDS PATCH
 110
 111     o  non-blocking socket on AIX
 112     o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
 113     o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
 114
 115   OPEN ISSUES
 116
 117     o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
 118       CA flag ...)
 119
 120     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
 121
 122        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
 123           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
 124           src/Configure. It confuses.
 125           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
 126                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
 127                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
 128                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
 129                       which are currently in Configure.
 130
 131     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
 132        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
 133        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
 134        solution to be really simple.
 135
 136        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
 137                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
 138                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
 139
 140                Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
 141                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
 142                     libcrypto)
 143
 144
 145     o  The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
 146        totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
 147        with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
 148        Net::SSLeay package we can find under
 149        http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html.  Ralf uses this package for a
 150        longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
 151        to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
 152        Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
 153        us.
 154
 155        Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
 156                and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
 157                to date.
 158                Paul +1
 159
 160   WISHES
 161
 162     o