STATUS
OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
______________ $Date: 2001/03/21 18:18:51 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: In development...
Beta 1 released on March 13th, 2001
HP-UX 10.20 (hpux-parisc-cc) - PASSED [normal+engine]
HP-UX 10.20 (hpux-parisc-gcc) - PASSED [normal+engine]
HP-UX 11.00 32bit (hpux-parisc-gcc) - FAILED [engine]
"openssl speed rsa1024 -engine cswift" fails unless
libswift.sl is renamed to libswift.so.
[CORRECTED]
HP MPE/iX - PASSED [presumed normal]
Linux 2.2.17 SMP (linux-elf) - PASSED [normal+engine]
Windows (VC-WIN32) - FAILED [presumed normal]
Missing line in ms/32all.bat:
perl util\mkfiles.pl >MINFO
[CORRECTED]
In randfile.c, line 214, signed and unsigned int are mixed.
[CORRECTED]
In s_client.c and s_server.c, RAND_status() needs to get
declared (#include <openssl/rand.h>)
[CORRECTED]
OpenVMS (any version) - FAILED [normal+engine]
Missing instructions in building script.
[CORRECTED]
AIX 4.3 - FAILED [engine]
Needs -DDSO_DLFCN and -DHAVE_DLFCN_H to work.
[CORRECTED] (but will not be automagically configured)
Irix 6.5.11 - FAILED [presumed normal]
BN_sqr test fails.
solaris64-sparcv9-cc (SunOS 5.8) - PASSED [normal+engine]
BSDI 4.0.1 (bsdi-elf-gcc) - FAILED [engine]
Needs -DDSO_DLFCN, -DHAVE_DLFCN_H and -ldl to work.
[CORRECTED]
mingw32 w/ gcc 2.95.2 - PASSED [presumed normal]
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
AVAILABLE PATCHES
o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
IN PROGRESS
o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
EVP cipher enhancement.
Proper (or at least usable) 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:
UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
functionality that is currently missing).
Dynamic thread-lock support.
Shared library support for VMS.
NEEDS PATCH
o non-blocking socket on AIX
o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
OPEN ISSUES
o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
CA flag ...)
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
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