2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2000/02/27 15:58:09 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Under development...
8 0.9.5-beta1 was available.
9 Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 - test passed
10 Mingw32 egcs 1.1.2 - test passed
11 FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE - test passed
12 FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE - test passed
13 solaris-sparcv9-cc - test passed
14 solaris-sparcv9-gcc - test passed
15 hpux-parisc-gcc - test passed
16 AIX 4.3 (aix-cc) - test passed
18 0.9.5beta2 is available.
19 FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE - test passed
20 OpenVMS V7.1/Alpha - test passed
21 Proposed release time: Monday, February 28th 2000
22 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
23 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
24 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
25 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
26 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
32 o shared libraries <behnke@trustcenter.de>
33 o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
37 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
38 Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
39 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
40 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
41 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
42 Documentation for the openssl utility.
46 o non-blocking socket on AIX
47 o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
48 o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
52 o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
55 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
57 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
58 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
59 src/Configure. It confuses.
60 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
61 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
62 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
63 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
64 which are currently in Configure.
66 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
67 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
68 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
69 solution to be really simple.
71 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
72 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
73 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
75 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
76 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
80 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
81 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
82 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
83 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
84 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
85 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
86 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
87 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
90 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
91 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
95 o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
96 structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
97 for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
98 use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
99 is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
100 an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
101 don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
102 use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
105 o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
106 there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)