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OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
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______________ $Date: 1999/09/30 08:32:54 $
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DEVELOPMENT STATE
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o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Under development...
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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 Lennart Bang: test program patches
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o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu)
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o SMIME tool (demo), Sampo Kellomaki <sampo@iki.fi>
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o OCSP patch, Massimiliano Pala (madwolf@openca.org)
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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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Checking and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
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Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
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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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=> It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate
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again for OpenSSL 0.9.3.
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2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
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=> I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
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3. The new documentation set in POD format under doc/
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=> I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
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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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=> Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge
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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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o Arne Ansper: d2i_ASN1_bytes bug
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o base64 decoding bug (Ivan Nejgebauer)
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o salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print
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<29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com>
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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 Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
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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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