STATUS

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   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2000/09/19 15:55:43 $
   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)          - failed
  58                                 Typo in Configure, -ldl should be -ldld [FIXED]
  59                         hpux-parisc-cc (10.20 w/ -ldld)         - success
  60                         hpux-parisc-gcc (10.20 w/ -ldld)        - success
  61                         hpux-parisc-cc [engine] (10.20 w/ -ldld)- success
  62                         hpux-parisc-gcc [endine] (10.20 w/ -ldld)- success
  63                         hpux-parisc2-cc                         - success
  64                         hpux64-parisc2-cc                       - success
  65                         hpux-parisc1_1-cc                       - success
  66                                 All hpux 10.20 targets succeeded provided -ldl
  67                                         has been changed to -ldld.
  68                         solaris-sparcv9-gcc (2.6/ultra5)        - success
  69                         solaris-sparcv9-cc (SunOS 5.7 SC3.0)    - failed
  70                                 Complaints about a number of -x parameters to
  71                                         the compiler and failed to compile an
  72                                         assembler file.  Maybe a too old
  73                                         compiler?
  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     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April     1st, 2000
  80     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February 28th, 2000
  81     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August   09th, 1999
  82     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May      29th, 1999
  83     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May      25th, 1999
  84     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March    22th, 1999
  85     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
  86
  87   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
  88
  89   AVAILABLE PATCHES
  90
  91     o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
  92
  93   IN PROGRESS
  94
  95     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
  96         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
  97         EVP cipher enhancement.
  98         Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
  99         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
 100         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
 101         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
 102     o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
 103         ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
 104     o Richard is currently working on:
 105         UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
 106               functionality that is currently missing).
 107         Dynamic thread-lock support.
 108         Shared library support for VMS.
 109
 110   NEEDS PATCH
 111
 112     o  non-blocking socket on AIX
 113     o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
 114     o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
 115
 116   OPEN ISSUES
 117
 118     o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
 119       CA flag ...)
 120
 121     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
 122
 123        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
 124           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
 125           src/Configure. It confuses.
 126           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
 127                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
 128                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
 129                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
 130                       which are currently in Configure.
 131
 132     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
 133        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
 134        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
 135        solution to be really simple.
 136
 137        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
 138                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
 139                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
 140
 141                Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
 142                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
 143                     libcrypto)
 144
 145
 146     o  The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
 147        totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
 148        with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
 149        Net::SSLeay package we can find under
 150        http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html.  Ralf uses this package for a
 151        longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
 152        to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
 153        Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
 154        us.
 155
 156        Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
 157                and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
 158                to date.
 159                Paul +1
 160
 161   WISHES
 162
 163     o