STATUS

   1
   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 1999/05/31 12:43:28 $
   4
   5   DEVELOPMENT STATE
   6
   7     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Under development...
   8     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May      29th, 1999
   9     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May      25th, 1999
  10     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March    22th, 1999
  11     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
  12
  13   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
  14
  15     o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
  16       CA flag ...)
  17
  18   AVAILABLE PATCHES
  19
  20     o OCSP (titchenert@certco.com)
  21     o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu)
  22
  23   IN PROGRESS
  24
  25     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
  26         Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
  27         Documentation on X509 V3 extension code.
  28         PKCS #8 and PKCS#5 v2.0 support.
  29         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
  30         Checking and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
  31
  32     o Mark is currently working on:
  33         Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
  34         not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release.  Plus other minor
  35         tidying.
  36
  37     o Ralf is currently working on:
  38         1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(),
  39            SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and
  40            SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing
  41            SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed
  42            to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in
  43            mod_ssl or Apache-SSL.
  44            => It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate
  45               again for OpenSSL 0.9.3.
  46         2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
  47            => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
  48         3. The new documentation set in POD format under doc/
  49            => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
  50         4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the
  51            source tree which are not really needed.
  52            => Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge
  53
  54     o Ben is currently working on:
  55         1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues.
  56         2. Integrated documentation.
  57         3. New TLS Ciphersuites.
  58         4. Anything else that takes his fancy.
  59
  60   NEEDS PATCH
  61
  62     o  broken demos
  63     o  salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print
  64        <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com>
  65     o  $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
  66     o  "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
  67     o  dubious declaration of crypt() in des.h
  68
  69   OPEN ISSUES
  70
  71     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
  72
  73        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
  74           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
  75           src/Configure. It confuses.
  76           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
  77                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
  78                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
  79                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
  80                       which are currently in Configure.
  81
  82     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
  83        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
  84        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
  85        solution to be really simple.
  86
  87        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
  88                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
  89                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
  90
  91     o  The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
  92        totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
  93        with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
  94        Net::SSLeay package we can find under
  95        http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html.  Ralf uses this package for a
  96        longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
  97        to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
  98        Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
  99        us.
 100
 101        Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
 102                and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
 103                to date.
 104                Paul +1
 105
 106     o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
 107       structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
 108       for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
 109       use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
 110       is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
 111       an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
 112       don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
 113       use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
 114       RC2 to adapt).
 115
 116     o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
 117
 118     o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
 119       there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)
 120       or similar.
 121
 122   WISHES
 123
 124     o