X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=STATUS;h=db5425f26912fb123902117cf185d7d28cf21367;hp=48636fadc0d90782d0a8dab5cf477e05a9e3d10d;hb=11750113c62b61ac152f581c28691927ecf59729;hpb=4c441f30bb0926edd87dd0c9c3663632842d52e3 diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS index 48636fadc0..db5425f269 100644 --- a/STATUS +++ b/STATUS @@ -1,22 +1,44 @@ OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at - ______________ $Date: 1999/01/30 12:06:16 $ + ______________ $Date: 2000/02/28 12:11:37 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE - o OpenSSL 0.9.2: Under development. + o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Under development... + o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on 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 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 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 @@ -28,29 +50,6 @@ 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 @@ -60,6 +59,11 @@ 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 @@ -75,27 +79,20 @@ 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. + 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 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