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   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
 
   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at

-  ______________                           $Date: 1999/01/30 12:06:16 $
+  ______________                           $Date: 2000/02/28 12:11:37 $

 
   DEVELOPMENT STATE
 
 
   DEVELOPMENT STATE
 

-    o  OpenSSL 0.9.2:  Under development.
+    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
 
   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
 
   AVAILABLE PATCHES
 
     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
 
   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
 
   AVAILABLE PATCHES
 

+    o shared libraries <behnke@trustcenter.de>
+    o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
+

   IN PROGRESS
 
   IN PROGRESS
 

+    o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
+        Proper (or at least usable) 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.
+       Documentation for the openssl utility.
+

   NEEDS PATCH
 
   NEEDS PATCH
 

+    o  non-blocking socket on AIX
+    o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
+    o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
+

   OPEN ISSUES
 
   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
     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
 
        1. The config vs. Configure scripts


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                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
                       which are currently in Configure.
 
                       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
-
-    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  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


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                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
 
                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
     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


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                to date.
                Paul +1
 
                to date.
                Paul +1
 

-    o  Ralf has ported Stephen's pkcs12 program to OpenSSL (the 
-       ASN.1 stuff Eric recently changed :-( ), but needs some help from
-       Stephen at two source locations.  Stephen itself also has ported his
-       internal pkcs12 0.53 version to OpenSSL, but thinks we still shouldn't
-       incorporate it into OpenSSL because it needs more cleanups. Ralf still
-       thinks pkcs12 should be incorporated better now than later because it's
-       nasty to not have it in the core - one always has to install it
-       manually and a lot of people use it. So, should we incorporate it?
-       BTW, we have to be carefully because of the pkcs12 license: There are
-       some things which don't match the OpenSSL license, so Stephen has to
-       change it for us when we want to incorporate the code.
+    o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
+      structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
+      for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
+      use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
+      is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
+      an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
+      don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
+      use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
+      RC2 to adapt).

 
 

-       Status: Ralf +1, Stephen -0
+    o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
+      there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)
+      or similar.

 
   WISHES
 
 
   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