OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 1999/02/20 16:50:53 $
+ ______________ $Date: 1999/03/14 01:16:42 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
- o OpenSSL 0.9.2: Still under development.
- Proposed freeze time: Monday, March 8th 1999
- Proposed release time: Monday, March 15th 1999
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.2: Freezed!
+ - No more feature commits, please.
+ - Commit bugfixes and cleanups only, please.
+ - Already successfully tested platform:
+ o FreeBSD 2.2.7 Ben Laurie OK
+ o FreeBSD 3.1 Ralf S. Engelschall OK
+ o Solaris 2.6 Ralf S. Engelschall OK except for ctype warns
+ o Linux RH 5.1 Steve Henson OK
+ o Linux 2.0 RH 5.2 Ralf S. Engelschall OK
+ o Linux 2.2 RH 5.2 Peter 'Luna' Altberg OK
+ o WinNT,95 VC++ 5 Steve Henson OK
+
+ Proposed release time: Monday, March 15th 1999
+
o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
+ 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)
+
AVAILABLE PATCHES
+ o Solaris AS error (kenji@miyake.org)
+ 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.
+ 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 Mark is currently working on:
Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed
to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in
mod_ssl or Apache-SSL.
+ => It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate
+ again for OpenSSL 0.9.3.
2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
- 3. The new documentation set in PID format under doc/
+ => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
+ 3. The new documentation set in POD format under doc/
+ => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the
source tree which are not really needed.
+ => Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge
+
+ o Ben is currently working on:
+ 1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues.
+ 2. Integrated documentation.
+ 3. New TLS Ciphersuites.
+ 4. Anything else that takes his fancy.
NEEDS PATCH
use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
RC2 to adapt).
+ o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
+
+ o > NO_RSA (ejs@bfd.com)
+ > ./Configure -DNO_IDEA -DNO_RC5 -DNO_RC4 -DNO_RC2 -DNO_RSA -DNO_ERR linux-elf
+ > I tried for a whole day to do this and could not get it to work. Linux
+ > machine, kernel 2.0.36 and 2.2.1, redhat 5.2 latest, gcc and egcs , no
+ > go. I also noticed the even with -DNO_IDEA, _DNO_RC2, etc. the make
+ > still goes into those subdirectories and 'makes'.
+
WISHES
o Damien Miller:
SSLeay-0.9.1b RPM already includes some patches which do some of this.
I can forward them if you wish."
+ o Mats Nilsson <mats.nilsson@xware.se>:
+ "Add reference counting to all substructures of X509 etc. For instance,
+ X509_NAME lacks a reference counter, while EVP_PKEY has one. I'm
+ making COM-wrappers for selected parts of SSLeay for a project of ours,
+ and has found this inconsistency in copy semantics annoying."
+