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75b8dfc0 RE |
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2 | OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at | |
b7061c61 | 3 | ______________ $Date: 2001/09/25 11:01:14 $ |
75b8dfc0 RE |
4 | |
5 | DEVELOPMENT STATE | |
6 | ||
c5e8580e | 7 | o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development... |
6b46ca13 | 8 | o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001 |
4d231b43 | 9 | o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001 |
16221173 RL |
10 | o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000 |
11 | o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000 | |
12 | o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000 | |
13 | o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999 | |
14 | o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999 | |
15 | o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999 | |
16 | o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999 | |
17 | o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998 | |
75b8dfc0 RE |
18 | |
19 | RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS | |
20 | ||
117df10d BM |
21 | o BIGNUM library failures on 64-bit platforms (0.9.7-dev): |
22 | - BN_mod_mul verificiation (bc) fails for solaris64-sparcv9-cc | |
9d7a8d35 | 23 | |
75b8dfc0 RE |
24 | AVAILABLE PATCHES |
25 | ||
6b46ca13 AP |
26 | o IA-64 (a.k.a. Intel Itanium) public-key operation performance |
27 | patch for Linux is available for download at | |
28 | http://www.openssl.org/~appro/096b.linux-ia64.diff. As URL | |
29 | suggests the patch is relative to OpenSSL 0.9.6b. | |
30 | ||
75b8dfc0 RE |
31 | IN PROGRESS |
32 | ||
67d5ac03 | 33 | o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order): |
75c4f7e0 | 34 | ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement. |
36f554d4 | 35 | OCSP |
7f060601 | 36 | EVP cipher enhancement. |
36f554d4 | 37 | Enhanced certificate chain verification. |
1d48dd00 | 38 | Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation. |
5a9a4b29 | 39 | Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code). |
87c49f62 | 40 | Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions. |
1e552869 RL |
41 | o Geoff and Richard are currently working on: |
42 | ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others). | |
43 | o Richard is currently working on: | |
b8ffcf49 | 44 | UI (User Interface) |
1e552869 RL |
45 | UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level |
46 | functionality that is currently missing). | |
79d2eb64 | 47 | Shared library support for VMS. |
257341b5 RL |
48 | Kerberos 5 authentication |
49 | Constification | |
b8ffcf49 | 50 | OCSP |
679ab7c3 | 51 | |
75b8dfc0 RE |
52 | NEEDS PATCH |
53 | ||
b7061c61 BM |
54 | o All 'openssl' subprograms taking '-des' and '-des3' options should |
55 | include AES support (0.9.7-dev) | |
56 | ||
8a428200 BM |
57 | o 'openssl speed' should include AES support (0.9.7-dev) |
58 | ||
91b842c9 | 59 | o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file |
acafc0b4 | 60 | |
bbd1c84e BM |
61 | o OpenSSL_0_9_6-stable: |
62 | #include <openssl/e_os.h> in exported header files is illegal since | |
d0a8af61 BM |
63 | e_os.h is suitable only for library-internal use. |
64 | ||
f2c46006 BM |
65 | o Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated |
66 | or an error is reported | |
67 | ||
2cb924b0 | 68 | o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date. |
40753f76 | 69 | |
2cb924b0 | 70 | OPEN ISSUES |
a14280d4 | 71 | |
2ec077d8 RE |
72 | o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing: |
73 | ||
74 | 1. The config vs. Configure scripts | |
75 | It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs. | |
76 | src/Configure. It confuses. | |
77 | Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure | |
78 | script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove | |
79 | Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf | |
80 | itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks | |
81 | which are currently in Configure. | |
82 | ||
a6f20a1e RE |
83 | o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least |
84 | for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff | |
85 | Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the | |
86 | solution to be really simple. | |
87 | ||
88 | Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the | |
89 | compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache | |
90 | into the OpenSSL Configure script. | |
91 | ||
eb025998 UM |
92 | Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake, |
93 | which apparently is not flexible enough to generate | |
94 | libcrypto) | |
95 | ||
96 | ||
a6f20a1e RE |
97 | o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's |
98 | totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date | |
99 | with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice | |
100 | Net::SSLeay package we can find under | |
101 | http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a | |
102 | longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be | |
103 | to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a | |
104 | Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for | |
105 | us. | |
106 | ||
107 | Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay | |
108 | and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up | |
109 | to date. | |
68a8a41b | 110 | Paul +1 |
a6f20a1e | 111 | |
69d1dfba RE |
112 | WISHES |
113 | ||
27bfba29 | 114 | o SRP in TLS. |
528f6b81 RL |
115 | [wished by: |
116 | Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>, | |
117 | Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>] | |
118 | ||
27bfba29 RL |
119 | See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt |
120 | as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/. | |
528f6b81 RL |
121 | |
122 | Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at | |
123 | http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could | |
124 | be useful. |