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enhance and tidy up the EVP interface. This patch adds initial support for variable length ciphers and changes S/MIME code to use this. Some other library functions need modifying to support use of modified cipher parameters. Also need to change all the cipher functions that should return error codes, but currenly don't. And of course it needs extensive testing...
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OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
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______________ $Date: 2000/05/26 23:51:09 $
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DEVELOPMENT STATE
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o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Under development...
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o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
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o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
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o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
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o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
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o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
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o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
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o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
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RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
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AVAILABLE PATCHES
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o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
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IN PROGRESS
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o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
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EVP cipher enhancement.
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Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
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Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
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Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
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Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
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NEEDS PATCH
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o non-blocking socket on AIX
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o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
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o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
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OPEN ISSUES
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o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
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CA flag ...)
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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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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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Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
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which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
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libcrypto)
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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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Paul +1
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WISHES
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o
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