X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=STATUS;h=1e73ea2a80312d845d33cc37715472742dc483f1;hp=915d47fecc938352e2d999815cadc9adc00b2ac2;hb=28db340142f33f08370a51e010f262c1bf4462ae;hpb=75b8dfc068ebe76a773bb92f094ec4777c48ca81;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS index 915d47fecc..1e73ea2a80 100644 --- a/STATUS +++ b/STATUS @@ -1,29 +1,190 @@ OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at - ______________ $Date: 1998/12/30 09:08:05 $ + ______________ $Date: 1999/04/14 09:32:51 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE - o OpenSSL 0.9.2: Under development. - o OpenSSL 0.9.1b: Released on December 23th, 1998 + 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 RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS + o Compilation warnings: ctype-related int vs. char + o Compilation error: "unsigned long*" and "int*" under AIX + o Undefined BN symbols in assembler stuff on Solaris + (see posting "openssl-SNAP-19990308-2130 on Solaris-2.6 SC4" in openssl-dev) + o BN assembler code in r3000.s, mips*.s and pa-risc*.s is broken + o BSD/OS: assembler functions must not have leading underscores + o Niels Poppe reports that RSA fails with alpha.s + o exptest fails with irix64-* + (Don Badrak : "Re: Problems to compile openssl + on IRIX 6.2", openssl-users) + o BN_add test fails on Caldera OpenLinux 1.3 + (Marc Christensen + "Compiles but fails big number test?", openssl-users) + AVAILABLE PATCHES + o OCSP (titchenert@certco.com) + o unsigned vs. non-unsigned (levitte@stacken.kth.se) + 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) + o SPARC v8 assembler implementations of bn_asm.c + (appro@fy.chalmers.se) + IN PROGRESS - o Ben is folding in his patches + 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. + + 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 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. - - o Ralf is currently working on the final www.openssl.org - website. It'll use no longer frames and will be both look - perfect in Netscape 4.x _AND_ Lynx 2.7.x. + 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 + o broken demos + o salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print + <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com> + o autogenerated code in pem.h + o Jean-Hugues ROYER : 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: + + 1. The config vs. Configure scripts + It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs. + src/Configure. It confuses. + Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure + script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove + Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf + 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 + 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 + solution to be really simple. + + Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the + compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache + into the OpenSSL Configure script. + + 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 + Net::SSLeay package we can find under + http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a + longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be + to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a + Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for + us. + + Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay + and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up + to date. + Paul +1 + + 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). + + 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 The "exported" header files should not use #include "foo.h", but + #include or even better #include or + #include 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: + "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 : + "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." +