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OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
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______________ $Date: 1999/02/28 20:51:38 $
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DEVELOPMENT STATE
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o OpenSSL 0.9.2: Still under development.
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Proposed freeze time: Monday, March 8th 1999
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Proposed release time: Monday, March 15th 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 Solaris AS error (kenji@miyake.org)
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o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu)
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o s3_lib.c - export clients (levitte@stacken.kth.se)
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o linux dynamic libs (colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au)
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o MingW support (niklas@canit.se)
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o crypto/des/enc_read.c bugfix (mike@cs.mun.ca)
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IN PROGRESS
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o Steve is currently working on:
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X509 V3 extension code including:
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1. Support for the more common PKIX extensions.
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2. Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
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3. Support in standard applications (req, x509, ca).
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4. Documentation on how all the above works.
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Next on the list is probably PKCS#12 integration.
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o Mark is currently working on:
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Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
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not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release. Plus other minor
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tidying.
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o Ralf is currently working on:
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1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(),
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SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and
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SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing
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SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed
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to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in
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mod_ssl or Apache-SSL.
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2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
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3. The new documentation set in PID format under doc/
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4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the
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source tree which are not really needed.
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o Ben is currently working on:
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1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues.
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2. Integrated documentation.
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3. New TLS Ciphersuites.
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4. Anything else that takes his fancy.
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NEEDS PATCH
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OPEN ISSUES
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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 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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Status: Mark +1
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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 $prefix/share.
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Paul: why is it not nice?
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Ralf: because it messes up the install dir when
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$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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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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Paul +1
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o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
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structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
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for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
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use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
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is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
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an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
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don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
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use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
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RC2 to adapt).
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o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
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o > NO_RSA (ejs@bfd.com)
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> ./Configure -DNO_IDEA -DNO_RC5 -DNO_RC4 -DNO_RC2 -DNO_RSA -DNO_ERR linux-elf
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> I tried for a whole day to do this and could not get it to work. Linux
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> machine, kernel 2.0.36 and 2.2.1, redhat 5.2 latest, gcc and egcs , no
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> go. I also noticed the even with -DNO_IDEA, _DNO_RC2, etc. the make
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> still goes into those subdirectories and 'makes'.
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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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o Mats Nilsson <mats.nilsson@xware.se>:
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"Add reference counting to all substructures of X509 etc. For instance,
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X509_NAME lacks a reference counter, while EVP_PKEY has one. I'm
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making COM-wrappers for selected parts of SSLeay for a project of ours,
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and has found this inconsistency in copy semantics annoying."
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