OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 1999/04/23 22:20:21 $
+ ______________ $Date: 1999/04/29 21:56:13 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
+ [ Proposed new numbering scheme: <major>.<minor>[<patchlevel>]
+ 0.9.1c is 0913
+ 1.0 is 010000
+ 1.0 a is 010001
+ 1.8 z is 01081a ]
+
RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
o Compilation warnings: ctype-related int vs. char
- o Compilation error: "unsigned long*" and "int*" under AIX
o BSD/OS: assembler functions must not have leading underscores
- o exptest and rsa_oaep_test fail with irix64-*
+ 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 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 linux dynamic libs (colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au)
o MingW support (niklas@canit.se)
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
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
itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
which are currently in Configure.
- 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
- to $prefix/etc/, $prefix/lib/ or $prefix/share. Alternatively
- we could also not install the certs at all.
-
- Status: Ralf +1 for both not installing the certs at all and
- moving it to $prefix/etc/. +0 for $prefix/lib/
- and $prefix/share.
- Paul: why is it not nice?
- Ralf: because it messes up the install dir when
- $prefix is not a dedicated area like /usr/local/ssl.
- When we move them to a standard subdir like
- etc/ lib/ or share/ we don't mess up things
- when $prefix is /usr or /usr/local, etc.
- Additionally it makes package vendors life
- easier....
-
o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
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'.
-
o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)
or similar.