| OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at | |
| ______________ $Date: 2002/02/20 18:03:00 $ | |
| DEVELOPMENT STATE | |
| o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development... | |
| o OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December 21st, 2001 | |
| 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 | |
| Checked on Result | |
| alpha-cc (Tru64 version 4.0) works | |
| linux-alpha+bwx-gcc doesn't work. Reported by | |
| Sean O'Riordain <seanpor@acm.org> | |
| Needs checked on | |
| [add platforms here] | |
| AVAILABLE PATCHES | |
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| 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 An (optional) countermeasure against the predictable-IV CBC | |
| weakness in SSL/TLS should be added; see | |
| http://www.openssl.org/~bodo/tls-cbc.txt | |
| o 'openssl speed' should include AES support (0.9.7-dev) | |
| o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file | |
| 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 Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?] | |
| where the callback function can request that the function be aborted. | |
| [Gregory Stark <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>] | |
| 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. |