X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=STATUS;h=20d8e856224daa7526b738c7781823fc7ac12dff;hp=0a1a99428ffa28e0ee597052a3cda1d5a5b22770;hb=74400f7348c589bf9e7cd17f657c05b25f8758b1;hpb=679ab7c39e1c011870a2f6f6092460dbe693600f diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS index 0a1a99428f..20d8e85622 100644 --- a/STATUS +++ b/STATUS @@ -1,30 +1,77 @@ OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at - ______________ $Date: 1999/01/30 17:34:59 $ + ______________ $Date: 1999/10/07 16:58:08 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE - o OpenSSL 0.9.2: Under development. + o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Under development... + 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 shared libraries + o Lennart Bang: test program patches + o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) + o SMIME tool (demo), Sampo Kellomaki + o OCSP patch, Massimiliano Pala (madwolf@openca.org) + o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller) + o FreeBSD 3.0 changes (Richard Levitte) + 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. + 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. + Checking and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code). + Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions. + + 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. NEEDS PATCH + o Arne Ansper: d2i_ASN1_bytes bug + o salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print + <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com> + o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl + o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file + 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 @@ -36,29 +83,6 @@ 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 @@ -68,6 +92,11 @@ 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 @@ -93,13 +122,12 @@ use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect RC2 to adapt). - WISHES + o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random. - 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 ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is, + there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize) + or similar. + + WISHES + o