2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2000/03/24 15:19:07 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Under development...
8 0.9.5a-beta1 is available.
9 sunos-gcc - failed (ssize_t)
10 ultrix-gcc, ultrix-cc - failed (ssize_t)
11 sco5-cc - bc fails in test
12 VC-Win32 (MSVC6SP3, nasm) - failed (fixed)
13 FreeBSD-elf (i686-pc-freebsd3.2)- failed (fixed)
14 HPUX (hpux-parisc-cc w/ +02) - passed
16 solaris-sparcv9-cc - passed
17 0.9.5a-beta2 is available.
20 FreeBSD-elf (i586-pc-freebsd3.2)- passed
21 solaris-sparcv9-cc - passed
22 solaris-sparcv9-gcc - passed
24 VMS/Alpha 7.1 w/ DEC C 5.6-003 - passed
25 VMS/Alpha 7.2-1 w/ CPQ C 6.2-003- passed
26 AIX 4.3.3.0 w/ cc - passed
27 AIX 4.3.3.0 w/ gcc (2.7.2.3?) - passed
28 Irix 6.4 w/ cc - passed
29 Irix 6.4 w/ gcc - passed
30 Irix 6.5 w/ cc - passed
31 Irix 6.5 w/ gcc - passed
33 Unixware 7.0.1 w/ native cc - passed
34 Solaris-x86 2.6 w/ gcc 2.7.2.3 - passed
35 Solaris-x86 2.7 w/ gcc 2.7.2.3 - passed
36 True64 Unix w/ gcc 2.7.2.3 - passed
39 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
40 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
41 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
42 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
43 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
44 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
50 o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
54 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
55 Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
56 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
57 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
58 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
59 Documentation for the openssl utility.
63 o non-blocking socket on AIX
64 o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
65 o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
69 o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
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 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
84 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
85 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
86 solution to be really simple.
88 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
89 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
90 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
92 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
93 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
97 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
98 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
99 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
100 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
101 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
102 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
103 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
104 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
107 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
108 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
112 o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
113 structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
114 for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
115 use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
116 is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
117 an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
118 don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
119 use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
122 o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
123 there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)