1998-12-30 09:08:05 +00:00
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OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
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1999-01-21 13:01:20 +00:00
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______________ $Date: 1999/01/21 13:01:20 $
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1998-12-30 09:08:05 +00:00
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DEVELOPMENT STATE
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o OpenSSL 0.9.2: Under development.
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1998-12-31 09:36:40 +00:00
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o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
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1998-12-30 09:08:05 +00:00
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RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
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AVAILABLE PATCHES
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IN PROGRESS
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o Ben is folding in his patches
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NEEDS PATCH
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OPEN ISSUES
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1999-01-02 16:28:51 +00:00
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o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
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1. The config vs. Configure scripts
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It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
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src/Configure. It confuses.
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Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
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script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
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Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
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itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
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which are currently in Configure.
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2. The massive symlinking of Makefile.ssl -> Makefile:
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First the `make -f Makefile.ssl links' command is nasty, second the
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whole process is slow and third it seems to be done without real
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need. And forth, the dependecies are currently missing. And fifth,
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it's complicated to always go to the top-level in order to get the
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local variables overriden.
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Suggestion: Rename Makefile.ssl to Makefile.in, add
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dependencies to Makefile.in and change the build process
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to _generate_ Makefile out of Makefile.in by
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substituting variables like CC, etc. This solves the
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above problems.
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3. The xxx.org -> xxx.h generation:
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It's not obvious for which file xxx.org is the source.
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Suggestion: Rename xxx.org to xxx.h.in (Autoconf style), this way
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one sees that xxx.h.in is the input for xxx.h
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1999-01-01 15:58:14 +00:00
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1998-12-31 12:14:27 +00:00
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o The installation under "make install" produces a very
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installation layout: $prefix/certs and $prefix/private dirs. That's
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not nice. Ralf suggests to move the two certs and private dirs either
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to $prefix/etc/, $prefix/lib/ or $prefix/share. Alternatively
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we could also not install the certs at all.
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Status: Ralf +1 for both not installing the certs at all and
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moving it to $prefix/etc/. +0 for $prefix/lib/
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and $prefix/share.
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1999-01-01 14:13:59 +00:00
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Paul: why is it not nice?
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1999-01-01 15:58:14 +00:00
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Ralf: because it messes up the install dir when
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$prefix is not a dedicated area like /usr/local/ssl.
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When we move them to a standard subdir like
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etc/ lib/ or share/ we don't mess up things
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when $prefix is /usr or /usr/local, etc.
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Additionally it makes package vendors life
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easier....
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1998-12-31 12:14:27 +00:00
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o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
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for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
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Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
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solution to be really simple.
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Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
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compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
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into the OpenSSL Configure script.
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o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
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totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
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with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
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Net::SSLeay package we can find under
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http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
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longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
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to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
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Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
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us.
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Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
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and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
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to date.
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1999-01-01 14:13:59 +00:00
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Paul +1
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1998-12-31 12:14:27 +00:00
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o Ralf has ported Stephen's pkcs12 program to OpenSSL (the
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ASN.1 stuff Eric recently changed :-( ), but needs some help from
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Stephen at two source locations. Stephen itself also has ported his
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internal pkcs12 0.53 version to OpenSSL, but thinks we still shouldn't
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incorporate it into OpenSSL because it needs more cleanups. Ralf still
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thinks pkcs12 should be incorporated better now than later because it's
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nasty to not have it in the core - one always has to install it
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manually and a lot of people use it. So, should we incorporate it?
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1998-12-31 12:52:23 +00:00
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BTW, we have to be carefully because of the pkcs12 license: There are
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some things which don't match the OpenSSL license, so Stephen has to
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change it for us when we want to incorporate the code.
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1998-12-31 12:14:27 +00:00
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Status: Ralf +1, Stephen -0
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1999-01-21 13:01:20 +00:00
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WISHES
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o Damien Miller:
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"How about making the each of the locations compile-time defined. I
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would like to (for example) put binaries in /usr/bin, configuration
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data, certs and keys in /etc/openssl/certs and /etc/openssl/keys, etc.
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This would also be a great boon to binary package makers. The
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SSLeay-0.9.1b RPM already includes some patches which do some of this.
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I can forward them if you wish."
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