STATUS

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   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2001/09/25 11:01:14 $
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   5   DEVELOPMENT STATE
   6
   7     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7:  Under development...
   8     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July       9th, 2001
   9     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April      5th, 2001
  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
  18
  19   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
  20
  21     o BIGNUM library failures on 64-bit platforms (0.9.7-dev):
  22       - BN_mod_mul verificiation (bc) fails for solaris64-sparcv9-cc
  23
  24   AVAILABLE PATCHES
  25
  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
  31   IN PROGRESS
  32
  33     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
  34         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
  35         OCSP
  36         EVP cipher enhancement.
  37         Enhanced certificate chain verification.
  38         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
  39         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
  40         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
  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:
  44         UI (User Interface)
  45         UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
  46               functionality that is currently missing).
  47         Shared library support for VMS.
  48         Kerberos 5 authentication
  49         Constification
  50         OCSP
  51
  52   NEEDS PATCH
  53
  54     o  All 'openssl' subprograms taking '-des' and '-des3' options should
  55        include AES support (0.9.7-dev)
  56
  57     o  'openssl speed' should include AES support (0.9.7-dev)
  58
  59     o  apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
  60
  61     o  OpenSSL_0_9_6-stable:
  62        #include <openssl/e_os.h> in exported header files is illegal since
  63        e_os.h is suitable only for library-internal use.
  64
  65     o  Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated
  66        or an error is reported
  67
  68     o  "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
  69
  70   OPEN ISSUES
  71
  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
  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
  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
  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.
 110                Paul +1
 111
 112   WISHES
 113
 114     o  SRP in TLS.
 115        [wished by:
 116         Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
 117         Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
 118
 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/.
 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.