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2 | OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at | |
6b46ca13 | 3 | ______________ $Date: 2001/07/17 14:39:26 $ |
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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 | ||
21 | AVAILABLE PATCHES | |
22 | ||
6b46ca13 AP |
23 | o IA-64 (a.k.a. Intel Itanium) public-key operation performance |
24 | patch for Linux is available for download at | |
25 | http://www.openssl.org/~appro/096b.linux-ia64.diff. As URL | |
26 | suggests the patch is relative to OpenSSL 0.9.6b. | |
27 | ||
75b8dfc0 RE |
28 | IN PROGRESS |
29 | ||
67d5ac03 | 30 | o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order): |
75c4f7e0 | 31 | ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement. |
36f554d4 | 32 | OCSP |
7f060601 | 33 | EVP cipher enhancement. |
36f554d4 | 34 | Enhanced certificate chain verification. |
1d48dd00 | 35 | Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation. |
5a9a4b29 | 36 | Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code). |
87c49f62 | 37 | Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions. |
1e552869 RL |
38 | o Geoff and Richard are currently working on: |
39 | ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others). | |
40 | o Richard is currently working on: | |
b8ffcf49 | 41 | UI (User Interface) |
1e552869 RL |
42 | UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level |
43 | functionality that is currently missing). | |
79d2eb64 | 44 | Shared library support for VMS. |
257341b5 RL |
45 | Kerberos 5 authentication |
46 | Constification | |
b8ffcf49 | 47 | OCSP |
679ab7c3 | 48 | |
75b8dfc0 RE |
49 | NEEDS PATCH |
50 | ||
91b842c9 | 51 | o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file |
acafc0b4 | 52 | |
bbd1c84e BM |
53 | o OpenSSL_0_9_6-stable: |
54 | #include <openssl/e_os.h> in exported header files is illegal since | |
d0a8af61 BM |
55 | e_os.h is suitable only for library-internal use. |
56 | ||
f2c46006 BM |
57 | o Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated |
58 | or an error is reported | |
59 | ||
40753f76 BM |
60 | OPEN ISSUES |
61 | ||
a14280d4 BM |
62 | o crypto/ex_data.c is not really thread-safe and so must be used |
63 | with care (e.g., extra locking where necessary, or don't call | |
64 | CRYPTO_get_ex_new_index once multiple threads exist). | |
65 | The current API is not suitable for everything that it pretends | |
66 | to offer. | |
67 | ||
2ec077d8 RE |
68 | o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing: |
69 | ||
70 | 1. The config vs. Configure scripts | |
71 | It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs. | |
72 | src/Configure. It confuses. | |
73 | Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure | |
74 | script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove | |
75 | Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf | |
76 | itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks | |
77 | which are currently in Configure. | |
78 | ||
a6f20a1e RE |
79 | o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least |
80 | for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff | |
81 | Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the | |
82 | solution to be really simple. | |
83 | ||
84 | Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the | |
85 | compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache | |
86 | into the OpenSSL Configure script. | |
87 | ||
eb025998 UM |
88 | Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake, |
89 | which apparently is not flexible enough to generate | |
90 | libcrypto) | |
91 | ||
92 | ||
a6f20a1e RE |
93 | o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's |
94 | totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date | |
95 | with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice | |
96 | Net::SSLeay package we can find under | |
97 | http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a | |
98 | longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be | |
99 | to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a | |
100 | Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for | |
101 | us. | |
102 | ||
103 | Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay | |
104 | and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up | |
105 | to date. | |
68a8a41b | 106 | Paul +1 |
a6f20a1e | 107 | |
69d1dfba RE |
108 | WISHES |
109 | ||
27bfba29 | 110 | o SRP in TLS. |
528f6b81 RL |
111 | [wished by: |
112 | Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>, | |
113 | Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>] | |
114 | ||
27bfba29 RL |
115 | See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt |
116 | as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/. | |
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117 | |
118 | Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at | |
119 | http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could | |
120 | be useful. |