I have a number of patches against 0.9.4 supporting shared libraries on AIX,
Solaris, and NT. I plan to sync up with 0.9.5a and/or 0.9.6 in the next
couple days. Let me know if you're interested in seeing the diffs.
-- Howard Chu
Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun
http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc
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> OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
> ______________ $Date: 2000/04/14 23:35:50 $
>
> DEVELOPMENT STATE
>
> o OpenSSL 0.9.6: Under development...
> o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April 1st, 2000
> o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
> o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
> o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
> o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
> o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
> o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
>
> RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
>
> AVAILABLE PATCHES
>
> o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
>
> IN PROGRESS
>
> o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
> Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
> Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
> Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
> Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request
> extensions.
> Documentation for the openssl utility.
>
> NEEDS PATCH
>
> o non-blocking socket on AIX
> o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
> o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
>
> OPEN ISSUES
>
> o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
> CA flag ...)
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but
> not automake,
> which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
> libcrypto)
>
>
> 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).
>
> WISHES
>
> o
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