OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 1999/05/10 19:28:00 $
+ ______________ $Date: 2000/02/28 19:14:38 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
- o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Under development...
- Proposed freeze date: Mon May 17th, 1999
- Proposed release date: Mon May 24th, 1999
- Release manager: Ben
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Under development...
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
+ o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
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 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)
-
AVAILABLE PATCHES
- o OCSP (titchenert@certco.com)
- 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)
+ o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
IN PROGRESS
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.
-
- o Mark is currently working on:
- Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
- not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release. Plus other minor
- tidying.
-
- o Ralf is currently working on:
- 1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(),
- SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and
- SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing
- 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 ;-)
- => 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.
+ Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
+ Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
+ Documentation for the openssl utility.
NEEDS PATCH
- o broken demos
- o salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print
- <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com>
+ o non-blocking socket on AIX
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 internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
+ CA flag ...)
+
o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
1. The config vs. Configure scripts
compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
into the OpenSSL Configure script.
+ Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
+ which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
+ libcrypto)
+
+
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
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 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:
- "How about making the each of the locations compile-time defined. I
- would like to (for example) put binaries in /usr/bin, configuration
- data, certs and keys in /etc/openssl/certs and /etc/openssl/keys, etc.
- This would also be a great boon to binary package makers. The
- 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."
-
+ o
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