STATUS

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   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2000/09/24 15:42:34 $
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   5   DEVELOPMENT STATE
   6
   7     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6:  Released on September 24th, 2000
   8     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April      1st, 2000
   9     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February  28th, 2000
  10     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August    09th, 1999
  11     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May       29th, 1999
  12     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May       25th, 1999
  13     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March     22th, 1999
  14     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December  23th, 1998
  15
  16   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
  17
  18   AVAILABLE PATCHES
  19
  20     o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
  21
  22   IN PROGRESS
  23
  24     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
  25         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
  26         EVP cipher enhancement.
  27         Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
  28         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
  29         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
  30         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
  31     o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
  32         ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
  33     o Richard is currently working on:
  34         UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
  35               functionality that is currently missing).
  36         Dynamic thread-lock support.
  37         Shared library support for VMS.
  38
  39   NEEDS PATCH
  40
  41     o  non-blocking socket on AIX
  42     o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
  43     o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
  44
  45   OPEN ISSUES
  46
  47     o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
  48       CA flag ...)
  49
  50     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
  51
  52        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
  53           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
  54           src/Configure. It confuses.
  55           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
  56                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
  57                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
  58                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
  59                       which are currently in Configure.
  60
  61     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
  62        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
  63        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
  64        solution to be really simple.
  65
  66        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
  67                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
  68                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
  69
  70                Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
  71                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
  72                     libcrypto)
  73
  74
  75     o  The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
  76        totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
  77        with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
  78        Net::SSLeay package we can find under
  79        http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html.  Ralf uses this package for a
  80        longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
  81        to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
  82        Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
  83        us.
  84
  85        Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
  86                and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
  87                to date.
  88                Paul +1
  89
  90   WISHES
  91
  92     o