STATUS

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   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2001/12/21 03:23:15 $
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   5   DEVELOPMENT STATE
   6
   7     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7:  Under development...
   8     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December  21st, 2001
   9     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July       9th, 2001
  10     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April      5th, 2001
  11     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6:  Released on September 24th, 2000
  12     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April      1st, 2000
  13     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February  28th, 2000
  14     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August    09th, 1999
  15     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May       29th, 1999
  16     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May       25th, 1999
  17     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March     22th, 1999
  18     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December  23th, 1998
  19
  20   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
  21
  22     o BIGNUM library failures on 64-bit platforms (0.9.7-dev):
  23       - BN_mod_mul verificiation (bc) fails for solaris64-sparcv9-cc
  24
  25   AVAILABLE PATCHES
  26
  27     o
  28
  29   IN PROGRESS
  30
  31     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
  32         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
  33         OCSP
  34         EVP cipher enhancement.
  35         Enhanced certificate chain verification.
  36         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
  37         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
  38         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
  39     o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
  40         ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
  41     o Richard is currently working on:
  42         UI (User Interface)
  43         UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
  44               functionality that is currently missing).
  45         Shared library support for VMS.
  46         Kerberos 5 authentication
  47         Constification
  48         OCSP
  49
  50   NEEDS PATCH
  51
  52     o  All 'openssl' subprograms taking '-des' and '-des3' options should
  53        include AES support (0.9.7-dev)
  54
  55     o  'openssl speed' should include AES support (0.9.7-dev)
  56
  57     o  apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
  58
  59     o  OpenSSL_0_9_6-stable:
  60        #include <openssl/e_os.h> in exported header files is illegal since
  61        e_os.h is suitable only for library-internal use.
  62
  63     o  Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated
  64        or an error is reported
  65
  66     o  "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
  67
  68   OPEN ISSUES
  69
  70     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
  71
  72        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
  73           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
  74           src/Configure. It confuses.
  75           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
  76                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
  77                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
  78                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
  79                       which are currently in Configure.
  80
  81     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
  82        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
  83        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
  84        solution to be really simple.
  85
  86        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
  87                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
  88                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
  89
  90                Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
  91                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
  92                     libcrypto)
  93
  94
  95     o  The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
  96        totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
  97        with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
  98        Net::SSLeay package we can find under
  99        http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html.  Ralf uses this package for a
 100        longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
 101        to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
 102        Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
 103        us.
 104
 105        Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
 106                and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
 107                to date.
 108                Paul +1
 109
 110   WISHES
 111
 112     o  SRP in TLS.
 113        [wished by:
 114         Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
 115         Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
 116
 117        See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
 118        as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
 119
 120        Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
 121        http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could
 122        be useful.