STATUS

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   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2000/10/26 21:07:27 $
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   5   DEVELOPMENT STATE
   6
   7     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7:  Under development...
   8     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6:  Released on September 24th, 2000
   9     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April      1st, 2000
  10     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February  28th, 2000
  11     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August    09th, 1999
  12     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May       29th, 1999
  13     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May       25th, 1999
  14     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March     22th, 1999
  15     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December  23th, 1998
  16
  17   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
  18
  19   AVAILABLE PATCHES
  20
  21     o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
  22
  23   IN PROGRESS
  24
  25     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
  26         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
  27         EVP cipher enhancement.
  28      /* Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification. */
  29         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
  30         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
  31         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
  32     o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
  33         ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
  34     o Richard is currently working on:
  35         UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
  36               functionality that is currently missing).
  37         Dynamic thread-lock support.
  38         Shared library support for VMS.
  39
  40   NEEDS PATCH
  41
  42     o  non-blocking socket on AIX
  43     o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
  44     o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
  45
  46   OPEN ISSUES
  47
  48     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
  49
  50        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
  51           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
  52           src/Configure. It confuses.
  53           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
  54                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
  55                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
  56                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
  57                       which are currently in Configure.
  58
  59     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
  60        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
  61        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
  62        solution to be really simple.
  63
  64        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
  65                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
  66                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
  67
  68                Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
  69                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
  70                     libcrypto)
  71
  72
  73     o  The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
  74        totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
  75        with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
  76        Net::SSLeay package we can find under
  77        http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html.  Ralf uses this package for a
  78        longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
  79        to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
  80        Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
  81        us.
  82
  83        Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
  84                and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
  85                to date.
  86                Paul +1
  87
  88   WISHES
  89
  90     o