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OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
______________ $Date: 2000/02/27 01:15:18 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Under development...
0.9.5-beta1 is available.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 - test passed
Mingw32 egcs 1.1.2 - test passed
FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE - test passed
FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE - test passed
solaris-sparcv9-cc - test passed
solaris-sparcv9-gcc - test passed
hpux-parisc-gcc - test passed
AIX 4.3 (aix-cc) - test passed
VC++ - test passed
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 <behnke@trustcenter.de>
o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
o FreeBSD 3.0 changes (Richard Levitte)
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
It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
src/Configure. It confuses.
Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
which are currently in Configure.
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
solution to be really simple.
Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
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
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.
WISHES
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