OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
______________ $Date: 1999/04/08 20:45:53 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Under development...
o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
o Compilation warnings: ctype-related int vs. char
o Compilation error: "unsigned long*" and "int*" under AIX
o Undefined BN symbols in assembler stuff on Solaris
(see posting "openssl-SNAP-19990308-2130 on Solaris-2.6 SC4" in openssl-dev)
o BN assembler code in r3000.s, mips*.s and pa-risc*.s is broken
o BSD/OS: assembler functions must not have leading underscores
o Niels Poppe reports that RSA fails with alpha.s
o exptest fails with irix64-*
(Don Badrak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: "Re: Problems to compile openssl
on IRIX 6.2", openssl-users)
o BN_add test fails on Caldera OpenLinux 1.3
(Marc Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Compiles but fails big number test?", openssl-users)
AVAILABLE PATCHES
o OCSP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
o unsigned vs. non-unsigned ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
o Install prefix for packagers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
o linux dynamic libs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
o MingW support ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
o SPARC v9, SPARC v8 assembler implementations of bn_asm.c
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IN PROGRESS
o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
Documentation on X509 V3 extension code.
PKCS#12 code cleanup and enhancement.
o Mark is currently working on:
Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were
not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release. Plus other minor
tidying.
o Ralf is currently working on:
1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(),
SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and
SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing
SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed
to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in
mod_ssl or Apache-SSL.
=> It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate
again for OpenSSL 0.9.3.
2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-)
=> I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
3. The new documentation set in POD format under doc/
=> I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2
4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the
source tree which are not really needed.
=> Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge
o Ben is currently working on:
1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues.
2. Integrated documentation.
3. New TLS Ciphersuites.
4. Anything else that takes his fancy.
NEEDS PATCH
o broken demos
o [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
o autogenerated code in pem.h
o Jean-Hugues ROYER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: rsa_oaep.c with Watcom C
o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
o add Configure option "rsaref"
o dubious declaration of crypt() in des.h
OPEN ISSUES
o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
1. The config vs. Configure scripts
It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
src/Configure. It confuses.
Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
which are currently in Configure.
2. The xxx.org -> xxx.h generation:
It's not obvious for which file xxx.org is the source.
Suggestion: Rename xxx.org to xxx.h.in (Autoconf style), this way
one sees that xxx.h.in is the input for xxx.h
Status: Mark +1
o The installation under "make install" produces a very
installation layout: $prefix/certs and $prefix/private dirs. That's
not nice. Ralf suggests to move the two certs and private dirs either
to $prefix/etc/, $prefix/lib/ or $prefix/share. Alternatively
we could also not install the certs at all.
Status: Ralf +1 for both not installing the certs at all and
moving it to $prefix/etc/. +0 for $prefix/lib/
and $prefix/share.
Paul: why is it not nice?
Ralf: because it messes up the install dir when
$prefix is not a dedicated area like /usr/local/ssl.
When we move them to a standard subdir like
etc/ lib/ or share/ we don't mess up things
when $prefix is /usr or /usr/local, etc.
Additionally it makes package vendors life
easier....
o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
solution to be really simple.
Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
into the OpenSSL Configure script.
o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
Net::SSLeay package we can find under
http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
us.
Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
to date.
Paul +1
o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
RC2 to adapt).
o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random.
o > NO_RSA ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> ./Configure -DNO_IDEA -DNO_RC5 -DNO_RC4 -DNO_RC2 -DNO_RSA -DNO_ERR linux-elf
> I tried for a whole day to do this and could not get it to work. Linux
> machine, kernel 2.0.36 and 2.2.1, redhat 5.2 latest, gcc and egcs , no
> go. I also noticed the even with -DNO_IDEA, _DNO_RC2, etc. the make
> still goes into those subdirectories and 'makes'.
o The "exported" header files should not use #include "foo.h", but
#include <foo.h> or even better #include <ssl/foo.h> or
#include <openssl/foo.h> in order to avoid filename clashes.
o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)
or similar.
WISHES
o Damien Miller:
"How about making the each of the locations compile-time defined. I
would like to (for example) put binaries in /usr/bin, configuration
data, certs and keys in /etc/openssl/certs and /etc/openssl/keys, etc.
This would also be a great boon to binary package makers. The
SSLeay-0.9.1b RPM already includes some patches which do some of this.
I can forward them if you wish."
o Mats Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
"Add reference counting to all substructures of X509 etc. For instance,
X509_NAME lacks a reference counter, while EVP_PKEY has one. I'm
making COM-wrappers for selected parts of SSLeay for a project of ours,
and has found this inconsistency in copy semantics annoying."
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