OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at | |
______________ $Date: 2001/09/25 11:01:14 $ | |
DEVELOPMENT STATE | |
o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development... | |
o OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July 9th, 2001 | |
o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April 5th, 2001 | |
o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000 | |
o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000 | |
o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000 | |
o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999 | |
o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999 | |
o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999 | |
o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999 | |
o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998 | |
RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS | |
o BIGNUM library failures on 64-bit platforms (0.9.7-dev): | |
- BN_mod_mul verificiation (bc) fails for solaris64-sparcv9-cc | |
AVAILABLE PATCHES | |
o IA-64 (a.k.a. Intel Itanium) public-key operation performance | |
patch for Linux is available for download at | |
http://www.openssl.org/~appro/096b.linux-ia64.diff. As URL | |
suggests the patch is relative to OpenSSL 0.9.6b. | |
IN PROGRESS | |
o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order): | |
ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement. | |
OCSP | |
EVP cipher enhancement. | |
Enhanced certificate chain verification. | |
Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation. | |
Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code). | |
Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions. | |
o Geoff and Richard are currently working on: | |
ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others). | |
o Richard is currently working on: | |
UI (User Interface) | |
UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level | |
functionality that is currently missing). | |
Shared library support for VMS. | |
Kerberos 5 authentication | |
Constification | |
OCSP | |
NEEDS PATCH | |
o All 'openssl' subprograms taking '-des' and '-des3' options should | |
include AES support (0.9.7-dev) | |
o 'openssl speed' should include AES support (0.9.7-dev) | |
o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file | |
o OpenSSL_0_9_6-stable: | |
#include <openssl/e_os.h> in exported header files is illegal since | |
e_os.h is suitable only for library-internal use. | |
o Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated | |
or an error is reported | |
o "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date. | |
OPEN ISSUES | |
o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing: | |
1. The config vs. Configure scripts | |
It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs. | |
src/Configure. It confuses. | |
Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure | |
script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove | |
Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf | |
itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks | |
which are currently in Configure. | |
o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least | |
for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff | |
Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the | |
solution to be really simple. | |
Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the | |
compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache | |
into the OpenSSL Configure script. | |
Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake, | |
which apparently is not flexible enough to generate | |
libcrypto) | |
o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's | |
totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date | |
with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice | |
Net::SSLeay package we can find under | |
http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a | |
longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be | |
to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a | |
Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for | |
us. | |
Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay | |
and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up | |
to date. | |
Paul +1 | |
WISHES | |
o SRP in TLS. | |
[wished by: | |
Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>, | |
Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>] | |
See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt | |
as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/. | |
Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at | |
http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could | |
be useful. |