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OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
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______________ $Date: 2001/02/22 15:10:11 $
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DEVELOPMENT STATE
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o OpenSSL 0.9.7: Under development...
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o OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Bugfix release -- under development...
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o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Released on September 24th, 2000
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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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IN PROGRESS
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o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
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ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
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OCSP
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EVP cipher enhancement.
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Enhanced 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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o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
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ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
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o Richard is currently working on:
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UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
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functionality that is currently missing).
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Shared library support for VMS.
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OCSP
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Kerberos 5 authentication
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Constification
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NEEDS PATCH
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o apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
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o OpenSSL_0_9_6-stable:
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#include <openssl/e_os.h> in exported header files is illegal since
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e_os.h is suitable only for library-internal use.
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o Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated
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or an error is reported
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OPEN ISSUES
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o crypto/ex_data.c is not really thread-safe and so must be used
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with care (e.g., extra locking where necessary, or don't call
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CRYPTO_get_ex_new_index once multiple threads exist).
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The current API is not suitable for everything that it pretends
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to offer.
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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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