X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=STATUS;h=9172360c9d016723245a1471bcd20df9706a566b;hp=e7b7687272249d92f54a07fd480fd7883f63f6e9;hb=fb044c592d58da1ba2f8eb137ccf99c484879679;hpb=69d1dfba24c9200a2cd307bf0b1949f6bb6291ea diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS index e7b7687272..9172360c9d 100644 --- a/STATUS +++ b/STATUS @@ -1,24 +1,77 @@ OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at - ______________ $Date: 1999/01/21 13:01:20 $ + ______________ $Date: 2000/02/14 16:58:40 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE - o OpenSSL 0.9.2: Under development. + 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 AVAILABLE PATCHES + o shared libraries + o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) + o SMIME tool (demo), Sampo Kellomaki + o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller) + o FreeBSD 3.0 changes (Richard Levitte) + 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. + + 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 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 @@ -30,41 +83,6 @@ itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks which are currently in Configure. - 2. The massive symlinking of Makefile.ssl -> Makefile: - First the `make -f Makefile.ssl links' command is nasty, second the - whole process is slow and third it seems to be done without real - need. And forth, the dependecies are currently missing. And fifth, - it's complicated to always go to the top-level in order to get the - local variables overriden. - Suggestion: Rename Makefile.ssl to Makefile.in, add - dependencies to Makefile.in and change the build process - to _generate_ Makefile out of Makefile.in by - substituting variables like CC, etc. This solves the - above problems. - - 3. 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 @@ -74,6 +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 @@ -89,27 +112,22 @@ 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 Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random. - WISHES + o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is, + there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize) + or similar. - 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." + WISHES + o