STATUS

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   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 1999/08/14 20:49:37 $
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   5   DEVELOPMENT STATE
   6
   7     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Under development...
   8     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August   09th, 1999
   9     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May      29th, 1999
  10     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May      25th, 1999
  11     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March    22th, 1999
  12     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
  13
  14   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
  15
  16   AVAILABLE PATCHES
  17
  18     o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu)
  19
  20   IN PROGRESS
  21
  22     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
  23         Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
  24         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
  25         Checking and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
  26         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
  27
  28     o Mark is currently working on:
  29         Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
  30         not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release.  Plus other minor
  31         tidying.
  32
  33     o Ralf is currently working on:
  34         1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(),
  35            SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and
  36            SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing
  37            SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed
  38            to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in
  39            mod_ssl or Apache-SSL.
  40            => It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate
  41               again for OpenSSL 0.9.3.
  42         2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
  43            => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
  44         3. The new documentation set in POD format under doc/
  45            => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
  46         4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the
  47            source tree which are not really needed.
  48            => Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge
  49
  50     o Ben is currently working on:
  51         1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues.
  52         2. Integrated documentation.
  53         3. New TLS Ciphersuites.
  54         4. Anything else that takes his fancy.
  55
  56   NEEDS PATCH
  57
  58     o  base64 decoding bug (Ivan Nejgebauer)
  59     o  salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print
  60        <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com>
  61     o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
  62     o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
  63
  64   OPEN ISSUES
  65
  66     o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
  67       CA flag ...)
  68
  69     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
  70
  71        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
  72           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
  73           src/Configure. It confuses.
  74           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
  75                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
  76                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
  77                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
  78                       which are currently in Configure.
  79
  80     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
  81        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
  82        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
  83        solution to be really simple.
  84
  85        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
  86                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
  87                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
  88
  89     o  The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
  90        totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
  91        with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
  92        Net::SSLeay package we can find under
  93        http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html.  Ralf uses this package for a
  94        longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
  95        to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
  96        Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
  97        us.
  98
  99        Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
 100                and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
 101                to date.
 102                Paul +1
 103
 104     o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
 105       structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
 106       for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
 107       use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
 108       is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
 109       an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
 110       don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
 111       use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
 112       RC2 to adapt).
 113
 114     o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
 115
 116     o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
 117       there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)
 118       or similar.
 119
 120   WISHES
 121
 122     o