X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=STATUS;h=eb6781d630cc9b12c882f551f7cef2f5ab97c201;hp=b7798a6a0df4a282399312c2150ba2c5d3e2fddf;hb=648765ba2fe4801820f087d839d43b944b1b6f19;hpb=9c2e306af35c7189370fe65c9c52548660142a01 diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS index b7798a6a0d..eb6781d630 100644 --- a/STATUS +++ b/STATUS @@ -1,84 +1,62 @@ OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at - ______________ $Date: 1999/05/17 22:33:25 $ + ______________ $Date: 2002/06/16 18:20:28 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE - o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Under development... - Proposed freeze date: Mon May 17th, 1999 - Proposed release date: Mon May 24th, 1999 - Release manager: Ben - o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999 - o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998 - - [ Proposed new numbering scheme: .[] - 0.9.1c is 0913 - 1.0 is 010000 - 1.0 a is 010001 - 1.8 z is 01081a ] + o OpenSSL 0.9.8: Under development... + o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta2: Released on June 16th, 2002 + o OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta1: Released on June 1st, 2002 + o OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Released on May 9th, 2002 + o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001 + o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001 + o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001 + o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000 + 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 + o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998 + + [See also http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html] RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS - o BSD/OS: assembler functions must not have leading underscores - o exptest and rsa_oaep_test fail with irix64-* - (Don Badrak : "Re: Problems to compile openssl - on IRIX 6.2", openssl-users) + o BN_mod_mul verification fails for mips3-sgi-irix + unless configured with no-asm AVAILABLE PATCHES - o OCSP (titchenert@certco.com) - o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) + o IN PROGRESS o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order): - Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification. - Documentation on X509 V3 extension code. - PKCS #8 and PKCS#5 v2.0 support. + ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement. + OCSP + EVP cipher enhancement. + Enhanced certificate chain verification. 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: + UI (User Interface) + UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level + functionality that is currently missing). + Shared library support for VMS. + Kerberos 5 authentication + Constification + OCSP NEEDS PATCH - o broken demos - o salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print - <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com> - o [ Compilation warnings: ctype-related int vs. char ] - => now casts (unsigned char), maybe those arrays should have - members of that type rather than plain char (i.e. - unsigned char *p; ....; if (isspace(*p)) ...; where it's now - char *p; ....; if (isspace((unsigned char)*p)) ...;) - o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl - o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file - o dubious declaration of crypt() in des.h + o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file + + o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date. OPEN ISSUES @@ -102,42 +80,24 @@ compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache into the OpenSSL Configure script. - 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 - Net::SSLeay package we can find under - http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a - longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be - to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a - Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for - us. - - Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay - and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up - 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. + Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake, + which apparently is not flexible enough to generate + libcrypto) WISHES - 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 Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?] + where the callback function can request that the function be aborted. + [Gregory Stark , ] + + o SRP in TLS. + [wished by: + Dj , Tom Wu , + Tom Holroyd ] + + See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt + as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/. + Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at + http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could + be useful.