2 OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
3 ______________ $Date: 2000/09/11 16:36:14 $
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 (ftime/TIMEB)
11 hpux-parisc-cc 10.20 - passed
12 hpux-parisc-gcc 10.20 - passed
13 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
14 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
15 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
16 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
17 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
18 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
19 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
25 o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
29 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
30 ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
31 EVP cipher enhancement.
32 Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
33 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
34 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
35 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
36 o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
37 ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
38 o Richard is currently working on:
39 UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
40 functionality that is currently missing).
41 Dynamic thread-lock support.
42 Shared library support for VMS.
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