X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=STATUS;h=e975bf31bbf8a77663e1623b5906197e9739eab8;hp=4028f3a4b25cd305653f10ddb067040949785e53;hb=d40a9e82572b7c2b751b975b3b481486e0449fc9;hpb=15a4b40c7f1162f5f0cfe431610c387f2312741b diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS index 4028f3a4b2..e975bf31bb 100644 --- a/STATUS +++ b/STATUS @@ -1,13 +1,18 @@ OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at - ______________ $Date: 1999/07/25 12:19:02 $ + ______________ $Date: 2000/09/11 16:36:14 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE - o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Under development... - Proposed code freeze: August, 2nd 1999 - Proposed release date: August, 9th 1999 - + o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Under development (in release cycle)... + Proposed release date September 24, 2000 + 0.9.6-beta1 is available: + OpenBSD-x86 2.7 - failed (ftime/TIMEB) + hpux-parisc-cc 10.20 - passed + hpux-parisc-gcc 10.20 - passed + o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000 + 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 @@ -15,60 +20,38 @@ RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS - o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints - CA flag ...) - AVAILABLE PATCHES - o OCSP (titchenert@certco.com) - o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) + o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller) IN PROGRESS o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order): + ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement. + EVP cipher enhancement. Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification. - Documentation on X509 V3 extension code. - PKCS #8 and PKCS#5 v2.0 support. Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation. - Checking and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code). - - 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. + Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code). + Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions. + o Geoff and Richard are currently working on: + ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others). + o Richard is currently working on: + UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level + functionality that is currently missing). + Dynamic thread-lock support. + Shared library support for VMS. NEEDS PATCH - o salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print - <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com> + 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 @@ -89,6 +72,11 @@ 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 @@ -104,22 +92,6 @@ to date. Paul +1 - 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 Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random. - - 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