STATUS

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   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2000/05/26 23:51:09 $
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   5   DEVELOPMENT STATE
   6
   7     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6:  Under development...
   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         EVP cipher enhancement.
  26         Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
  27         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
  28         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
  29         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
  30
  31   NEEDS PATCH
  32
  33     o  non-blocking socket on AIX
  34     o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
  35     o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
  36
  37   OPEN ISSUES
  38
  39     o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
  40       CA flag ...)
  41
  42     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
  43
  44        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
  45           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
  46           src/Configure. It confuses.
  47           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
  48                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
  49                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
  50                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
  51                       which are currently in Configure.
  52
  53     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
  54        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
  55        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
  56        solution to be really simple.
  57
  58        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
  59                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
  60                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
  61
  62                Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
  63                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
  64                     libcrypto)
  65
  66
  67     o  The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
  68        totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
  69        with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
  70        Net::SSLeay package we can find under
  71        http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html.  Ralf uses this package for a
  72        longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
  73        to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
  74        Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
  75        us.
  76
  77        Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
  78                and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
  79                to date.
  80                Paul +1
  81
  82   WISHES
  83
  84     o