X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=STATUS;h=554821c57cb727f346c3d19fc03da45b81d8630f;hp=553b429951e137a06736fded56e0108762cb3945;hb=1b7aee1d4e77433babc5487e05597ae01ce2d82c;hpb=68a8a41bef90c937e5c812df65365789e86ba17c diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS index 553b429951..554821c57c 100644 --- a/STATUS +++ b/STATUS @@ -1,34 +1,82 @@ OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at - ______________ $Date: 1999/01/01 14:13:59 $ + ______________ $Date: 2000/02/27 20:14:03 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE - o OpenSSL 0.9.2: Under development. + o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Under development... + 0.9.5-beta1 was available. + Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 - test passed + Mingw32 egcs 1.1.2 - test passed + FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE - test passed + FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE - test passed + solaris-sparcv9-cc - test passed + solaris-sparcv9-gcc - test passed + hpux-parisc-gcc - test passed + AIX 4.3 (aix-cc) - test passed + VC++ - test passed + 0.9.5beta2 is available. + hpux-parisc-cc - test passed + hpux-parisc-gcc (gcc 2.7.1) - test passed + hpux-parisc-gcc (gcc 2.8.0) - test passed + AIX 4.3 (aix-cc) - test passed + FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE - test passed + OpenVMS V7.1/Alpha - test passed + OpenVMS V7.2-1/Alpha - test passed + OpenVMS V7.2/VAX - test failed (is corrected) + OpenVMS V7.1/VAX - test failed (is corrected) + solaris-sparcv9-cc - test passed + irix-mips3-cc - test passed + irix64-mips4-cc - test passed + Rhapsody (MacOS X) - test passed + solaris64-sparcv9-cc - test passed + linux-alpha+bwx-ccc - test passed + linux-alpha-gcc (gcc 2.95.1) - test passed + linux-elf - test passed + Proposed release time: Monday, 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 shared libraries + o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller) + 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. + 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 + o non-blocking socket on AIX + o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl + o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file + OPEN ISSUES - 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. + o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints + CA flag ...) - 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? + 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. o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff @@ -39,6 +87,11 @@ 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 @@ -54,16 +107,20 @@ 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. - - Status: Ralf +1, Stephen -0 + 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 ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is, + there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize) + or similar. + + WISHES + + o