X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=STATUS;h=fe860ae309a24f3821f331b51bcc75df8e03434e;hp=44cc9901eb3a32534a670460cf137e767e638c10;hb=36734b2bab61e47b252ec3be85f8133a0d1c28f7;hpb=2c0ff02fba90ca3d5f9288c6c88ec8c62cd515b5 diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS index 44cc9901eb..fe860ae309 100644 --- a/STATUS +++ b/STATUS @@ -1,45 +1,75 @@ OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at - ______________ $Date: 2000/02/24 17:17:29 $ + ______________ $Date: 2003/02/28 15:17:45 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE - o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Under development... - 0.9.5-beta1 is available. - 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 + o OpenSSL 0.9.8: Under development... + o OpenSSL 0.9.7a: Released on February 19th, 2003 + o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Released on December 31st, 2002 + o OpenSSL 0.9.6i: Released on February 19th, 2003 + o OpenSSL 0.9.6h: Released on December 5th, 2002 + o OpenSSL 0.9.6g: Released on August 9th, 2002 + o OpenSSL 0.9.6f: Released on August 8th, 2002 + o OpenSSL 0.9.6e: Released on July 30th, 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 + AVAILABLE PATCHES - o shared libraries - o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller) - o FreeBSD 3.0 changes (Richard Levitte) + o IN PROGRESS o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order): - Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification. + ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement. + OCSP + EVP cipher enhancement. + Enhanced 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 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 (Heimdal) + Constification + Compression + Attribute Certificate support + Certificate Pair support + Storage Engines (primarly an LDAP storage engine) + Certificate chain validation with full RFC 3280 compatibility NEEDS PATCH - o non-blocking socket on AIX - o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl - o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file + o 0.9.8-dev: COMPLEMENTOFALL and COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT do not + handle ECCdraft cipher suites correctly. - OPEN ISSUES + o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file + + o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date. - o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints - CA flag ...) + OPEN ISSUES o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing: @@ -65,36 +95,20 @@ which apparently is not flexible enough to generate libcrypto) + WISHES - 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 ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is, - there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize) - or similar. + 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 , ] - WISHES + o SRP in TLS. + [wished by: + Dj , Tom Wu , + Tom Holroyd ] - o + 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.