STATUS

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   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2000/09/21 14:26:12 $
   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 6.2)                  - success
  91                         linux-elf [engine] (RedHat 6.2)         - success
  92                         solaris-sparcv9-gcc (5.7, gcc 2.95.2)   - success
  93                         solaris-sparcv9-cc (5.6, SunWS C 4.2)   - success
  94                         solaris-sparcv9-cc [engine] (5.6, SunWS C 4.2)- success
  95                         VC-WIN32 (NT4 SP6, VC6 SP2)             - success
  96                         VC-WIN32 (NT4 SP6, Cygwin)              - success
  97                                 The files used for testing must have CR/LF
  98                                         as line endings.
  99                         VC-WIN32 (NT4 SP6, Mingw32)             - failed
 100                                 mingw32a.mak contains a few lines that
 101                                         generate an error.
 102                         VC-NT (NT4 SP6, VC6 SP4)                - failed static
 103                                 Complains about unresolved external symbol
 104                                         __imp__RegQueryValueEx.  This only
 105                                         happens when building the static
 106                                         libraries.
 107                         VC-WIN32 (W2K Pro SP1, VC6 SP3, PSDK Jul2000)- success
 108                         hpux-parisc-gcc (B.10.20, gcc 2.95.2)   - success
 109                         hpux-parisc-cc (B.10.20, cc A.10.32.30) - success
 110                         hpux-parisc-gcc [engine] (B.10.20, gcc 2.95.2)- success
 111                         hpux-parisc-cc [engine] (B.10.20, cc A.10.32.30)- success
 112     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April     1st, 2000
 113     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February 28th, 2000
 114     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August   09th, 1999
 115     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May      29th, 1999
 116     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May      25th, 1999
 117     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March    22th, 1999
 118     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
 119
 120   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
 121
 122   AVAILABLE PATCHES
 123
 124     o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
 125
 126   IN PROGRESS
 127
 128     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
 129         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
 130         EVP cipher enhancement.
 131         Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
 132         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
 133         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
 134         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
 135     o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
 136         ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
 137     o Richard is currently working on:
 138         UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
 139               functionality that is currently missing).
 140         Dynamic thread-lock support.
 141         Shared library support for VMS.
 142
 143   NEEDS PATCH
 144
 145     o  non-blocking socket on AIX
 146     o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
 147     o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
 148
 149   OPEN ISSUES
 150
 151     o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
 152       CA flag ...)
 153
 154     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
 155
 156        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
 157           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
 158           src/Configure. It confuses.
 159           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
 160                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
 161                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
 162                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
 163                       which are currently in Configure.
 164
 165     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
 166        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
 167        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
 168        solution to be really simple.
 169
 170        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
 171                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
 172                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
 173
 174                Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
 175                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
 176                     libcrypto)
 177
 178
 179     o  The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
 180        totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
 181        with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
 182        Net::SSLeay package we can find under
 183        http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html.  Ralf uses this package for a
 184        longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
 185        to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
 186        Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
 187        us.
 188
 189        Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
 190                and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
 191                to date.
 192                Paul +1
 193
 194   WISHES
 195
 196     o