OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 1999/03/23 14:48:59 $
+ ______________ $Date: 1999/04/21 17:44:32 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Under development...
+ Proposed freeze date: Mon May 8th, 1999
+ Proposed release date: Mon May 17th, 1999
o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
o Compilation warnings: ctype-related int vs. char
o Compilation error: "unsigned long*" and "int*" under AIX
- o Why are NULL ciphers in front of the cipher spec?
- (see my posting "Bug?!: Cipher Suite and NULL Ciphers" in openssl-dev)
- o A Linux alpha user reported: "alpha.s does not have bn_div_word()"
- (see posting "ALPHA error" in openssl-dev)
- o Undefined BN symbols in assembler stuff on Solaris
- (see posting "openssl-SNAP-19990308-2130 on Solaris-2.6 SC4" in openssl-dev)
-
+ o BSD/OS: assembler functions must not have leading underscores
+ o exptest and rsa_oaep_test fail with irix64-*
+ (Don Badrak <dbadrak@geo.census.gov>: "Re: Problems to compile openssl
+ on IRIX 6.2", openssl-users)
+ o BN_add test fails on Caldera OpenLinux 1.3
+ (Marc Christensen <Marc.Christensen@m.cc.utah.edu>
+ "Compiles but fails big number test?", openssl-users)
+ o make test fails on AIX
+ (jvant@bsumail.idbsu.edu on openssl-users)
+
AVAILABLE PATCHES
- o Solaris AS error (kenji@miyake.org)
+ o OCSP (titchenert@certco.com)
+ o Install prefix for packagers (dharris@drh.net)
o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu)
- o s3_lib.c - export clients (levitte@stacken.kth.se)
o linux dynamic libs (colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au)
o MingW support (niklas@canit.se)
- o crypto/des/enc_read.c bugfix (mike@cs.mun.ca)
IN PROGRESS
- o Steve is currently working on:
- X509 V3 extension code including:
- 1. Support for the more common PKIX extensions.
- 2. Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
- 3. Support in standard applications (req, x509, ca).
- 4. Documentation on how all the above works.
- Next on the list is probably PKCS#12 integration.
+ o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
+ Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
+ Documentation on X509 V3 extension code.
+ PKCS#12 code cleanup and enhancement.
+ PKCS #8 and PKCS#5 v2.0 support.
+ Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
+ Redo error code and DEF file generation scripts.
o Mark is currently working on:
Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
NEEDS PATCH
+ o broken demos
+ o salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print
+ <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com>
+ o Jean-Hugues ROYER <jhroyer@joher.com>: rsa_oaep.c with Watcom C
+ o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
+ o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
+ o dubious declaration of crypt() in des.h
+
OPEN ISSUES
o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
which are currently in Configure.
- 2. The xxx.org -> xxx.h generation:
- It's not obvious for which file xxx.org is the source.
- Suggestion: Rename xxx.org to xxx.h.in (Autoconf style), this way
- one sees that xxx.h.in is the input for xxx.h
-
- Status: Mark +1
-
o The installation under "make install" produces a very
installation layout: $prefix/certs and $prefix/private dirs. That's
not nice. Ralf suggests to move the two certs and private dirs either
> go. I also noticed the even with -DNO_IDEA, _DNO_RC2, etc. the make
> still goes into those subdirectories and 'makes'.
+ o The "exported" header files should not use #include "foo.h", but
+ #include <foo.h> or even better #include <ssl/foo.h> or
+ #include <openssl/foo.h> in order to avoid filename clashes.
+
+ o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
+ there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)
+ or similar.
+
WISHES
o Damien Miller: