2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2000/03/24 15:08:04 $
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
27 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
28 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
29 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
30 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
31 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
32 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
38 o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
42 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
43 Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
44 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
45 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
46 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
47 Documentation for the openssl utility.
51 o non-blocking socket on AIX
52 o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
53 o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
57 o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
60 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
62 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
63 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
64 src/Configure. It confuses.
65 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
66 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
67 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
68 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
69 which are currently in Configure.
71 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
72 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
73 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
74 solution to be really simple.
76 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
77 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
78 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
80 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
81 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
85 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
86 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
87 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
88 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
89 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
90 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
91 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
92 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
95 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
96 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
100 o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
101 structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
102 for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
103 use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
104 is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
105 an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
106 don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
107 use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
110 o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
111 there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)