X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=STATUS;h=9172360c9d016723245a1471bcd20df9706a566b;hp=8780a270b513692e9c3a26ee5c4aadd6269f741d;hb=4a26329b4c105a2fa0f10de3ecf644e0d082b056;hpb=199d59e5a1683aec183bf4eacbc096663357c46b diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS index 8780a270b5..9172360c9d 100644 --- a/STATUS +++ b/STATUS @@ -1,54 +1,36 @@ OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at - ______________ $Date: 1999/03/14 01:16:42 $ + ______________ $Date: 2000/02/14 16:58:40 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE - o OpenSSL 0.9.2: Freezed! - - No more feature commits, please. - - Commit bugfixes and cleanups only, please. - - Already successfully tested platform: - o FreeBSD 2.2.7 Ben Laurie OK - o FreeBSD 3.1 Ralf S. Engelschall OK - o Solaris 2.6 Ralf S. Engelschall OK except for ctype warns - o Linux RH 5.1 Steve Henson OK - o Linux 2.0 RH 5.2 Ralf S. Engelschall OK - o Linux 2.2 RH 5.2 Peter 'Luna' Altberg OK - o WinNT,95 VC++ 5 Steve Henson OK - - Proposed release time: Monday, March 15th 1999 - + o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Under development... + Proposed freeze time: Monday, February 21st 2000 + 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 - o Compilation warnings: ctype-related int vs. char - o Compilation error: "unsigned long*" and "int*" under AIX - o Why are NULL ciphers in front of the cipher spec? - (see my posting "Bug?!: Cipher Suite and NULL Ciphers" in openssl-dev) - o A Linux alpha user reported: "alpha.s does not have bn_div_word()" - (see posting "ALPHA error" in openssl-dev) - o Undefined BN symbols in assembler stuff on Solaris - (see posting "openssl-SNAP-19990308-2130 on Solaris-2.6 SC4" in openssl-dev) - AVAILABLE PATCHES - o Solaris AS error (kenji@miyake.org) + o shared libraries o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) - o s3_lib.c - export clients (levitte@stacken.kth.se) - o linux dynamic libs (colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au) - o MingW support (niklas@canit.se) - o crypto/des/enc_read.c bugfix (mike@cs.mun.ca) + o SMIME tool (demo), Sampo Kellomaki + 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. + Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code). + Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions. + Documentation for the openssl utility. o Mark is currently working on: Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were @@ -80,8 +62,16 @@ NEEDS PATCH + 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 @@ -93,31 +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 - - 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 @@ -127,6 +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 @@ -154,26 +124,10 @@ 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 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." - + o