2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2000/09/11 17:10:21 $
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 (ftime/TIMEB)
11 hpux-parisc-cc 10.20 - passed
12 hpux-parisc-gcc 10.20 - passed
14 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
15 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
16 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
17 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
18 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
19 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
20 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
26 o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
30 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
31 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
32 EVP cipher enhancement.
33 Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
34 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
35 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
36 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
37 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
38 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
39 o Richard is currently working on:
40 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
41 functionality that is currently missing).
42 Dynamic thread-lock support.
43 Shared library support for VMS.
47 o non-blocking socket on AIX
48 o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
49 o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
53 o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
56 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
58 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
59 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
60 src/Configure. It confuses.
61 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
62 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
63 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
64 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
65 which are currently in Configure.
67 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
68 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
69 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
70 solution to be really simple.
72 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
73 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
74 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
76 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
77 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
81 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
82 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
83 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
84 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
85 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
86 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
87 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
88 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
91 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
92 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up