OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 2000/10/26 21:07:27 $
+ ______________ $Date: 2002/04/25 07:52:07 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development...
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001
o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
+ o BIGNUM library failures on 64-bit platforms (0.9.7-dev):
+ - BN_mod_mul verificiation (bc) fails for solaris64-sparcv9-cc
+ and other 64-bit platforms
+
+ Checked on Result
+ alpha-cc (Tru64 version 4.0) works
+ linux-alpha+bwx-gcc doesn't work. Reported by
+ Sean O'Riordain <seanpor@acm.org>
+ OpenBSD-sparc64 doesn't work. BN_mod_mul breaks.
+
+ Needs checked on
+ [add platforms here]
+
+ - BN_mod_mul verification fails for mips3-sgi-irix
+ unless configured with no-asm
+
AVAILABLE PATCHES
- o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
+ o
IN PROGRESS
o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
+ OCSP
EVP cipher enhancement.
- /* Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification. */
+ Enhanced certificate chain verification.
Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
o Richard is currently working on:
+ UI (User Interface)
UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
functionality that is currently missing).
- Dynamic thread-lock support.
Shared library support for VMS.
+ Kerberos 5 authentication
+ Constification
+ OCSP
NEEDS PATCH
- o non-blocking socket on AIX
- o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
- o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
+ o parameters should be omitted (not NULL) with id-dsa-with-sha1 OID
+ in X.509 signatures
+
+ o inappropriate AlgorithmIdentifier used in S/MIME signatures
+ (key type instead of signature algorithm)
+
+ o AES ciphersuites are not (yet) official and should not be enabled
+ unless explicitly requested
+
+ o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
+
+ o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
OPEN ISSUES
+ o Do we want the EVP API changes in 0.9.7?
+ Can compatibility be improved?
+
o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
1. The config vs. Configure scripts
which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
libcrypto)
+ WISHES
- o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
- totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
- with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
- Net::SSLeay package we can find under
- http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
- longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
- to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
- Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
- us.
+ o Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
+ where the callback function can request that the function be aborted.
+ [Gregory Stark <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
- Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
- and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
- to date.
- Paul +1
+ o SRP in TLS.
+ [wished by:
+ Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
+ Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
- WISHES
+ See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
+ as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
- o
+ Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
+ http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could
+ be useful.
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