2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2000/09/17 22:36:25 $
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
16 hpux-brokengcc - failed
19 linux-sparcv7 - 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
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
37 aix-gcc (AIX 4.3.2) - passed
39 Some things were missing [FIXED]
40 0.9.6-beta1 is available:
41 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
42 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
43 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
44 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
45 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
46 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
47 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
53 o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
57 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
58 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
59 EVP cipher enhancement.
60 Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
61 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
62 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
63 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
64 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
65 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
66 o Richard is currently working on:
67 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
68 functionality that is currently missing).
69 Dynamic thread-lock support.
70 Shared library support for VMS.
74 o non-blocking socket on AIX
75 o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
76 o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
80 o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
83 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
85 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
86 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
87 src/Configure. It confuses.
88 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
89 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
90 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
91 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
92 which are currently in Configure.
94 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
95 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
96 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
97 solution to be really simple.
99 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
100 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
101 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
103 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
104 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
108 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
109 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
110 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
111 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
112 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
113 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
114 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
115 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
118 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
119 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up