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OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
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______________ $Date: 2000/02/25 20:46:09 $
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DEVELOPMENT STATE
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o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Under development...
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0.9.5-beta1 is available.
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Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 - test passed
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Mingw32 egcs 1.1.2 - test passed
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FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE - test passed
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FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE - test passed
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solaris-sparcv9-cc - test passed
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solaris-sparcv9-gcc - test passed
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hpux-parisc-gcc - test passed
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AIX 4.3 (aix-cc) - test passed
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VC++ - assembler error
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Proposed release time: Monday, 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 shared libraries <behnke@trustcenter.de>
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o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
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o FreeBSD 3.0 changes (Richard Levitte)
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IN PROGRESS
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o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
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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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Documentation for the openssl utility.
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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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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 ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
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there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)
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or similar.
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WISHES
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o
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