openssl/STATUS

  OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
  ______________                           $Date: 2000/09/18 09:36:25 $

  DEVELOPMENT STATE

    o  OpenSSL 0.9.6:  Under development (in release cycle)...
                       Proposed release date September 24, 2000
                       0.9.6-beta1 is available:
			OpenBSD-x86 2.7			- failed
				ftime not supported [FIXED]
			hpux-parisc-cc 10.20		- passed
			hpux-parisc-gcc 10.20		- passed
			hpux-parisc-gcc 11.00		- passed
			hpux-gcc			- passed
			hpux-brokengcc			- failed
				BN_sqr fails in test
			linux-elf			- passed
			linux-sparcv7			- passed
			linux-ppc			- passed
			Solaris [engine]		- failed
				speed cswift gives odd errors [FIXED]
			solaris-sparcv8-gcc		- passed
			solaris-sparcv9-gcc		- passed
			solaris-sparcv9-cc		- passed
			solaris64-sparcv9-cc		- passed
			sco5-gcc			- passed
			sco5-cc				- passed
			FreeBSD				- passed
			Win32 VC++			- failed
				PCURSORINFO not defined unless Win2000 [FIXED]
				RAND_poll() problem on Win2000 [FIXED]
				DSO method always DSO_METHOD_null [FIXED]
			CygWin32			- test failed
			MingW32				- failed
				thelp32.h
			aix-gcc (AIX 4.3.2)		- passed
			VMS/Alpha			- failed
				Some things were missing [FIXED]
                       0.9.6-beta2 is available:
			sunos-gcc			- passed
			aix-gcc				- passed
			Win32 w/ VC6 or Mingw32		- failed
				RAND_poll(), a few uninitialised vars [FIXED]
				RAND_poll() should used LoadLibrary instead of
					GetModuleHandle [FIXED]
				Major compilation problem with VC6 on NT
				Mingw32 says "175: parse error before `DWORD'"
			Win32 w/ CygWin			- success?
			VMS/Alpha 7.1 (CPQ C 5.6-003, TCP/IP 5.0) - success
				Just a small warning in dso_vms.c [FIXED]
			VMS/Alpha 7.2-1 (CPQ 5.6-003, TCP/IP 5.0A) - success
			VMS/VAX 7.2-1 (CPQ 5.2-003, TCP/IP 5.0) - success
			hpux-parisc-cc (HP-UX B.11.00)	- failed
				Typo in Configure, -ldl should be -ldld [FIXED]
    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):
        ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
        EVP cipher enhancement.
        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.
    o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
	ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
    o Richard is currently working on:
	UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
	      functionality that is currently missing).
	Dynamic thread-lock support.
	Shared library support for VMS.

  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

  WISHES

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