Beginnings of EVP cipher overhaul. This should eventually

enhance and tidy up the EVP interface.

This patch adds initial support for variable length ciphers
and changes S/MIME code to use this.

Some other library functions need modifying to support use
of modified cipher parameters.

Also need to change all the cipher functions that should
return error codes, but currenly don't.

And of course it needs extensive testing...

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS
index 410739c045..98b8656af9 100644
--- a/STATUS
+++ b/STATUS
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 
   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
-  ______________                           $Date: 2000/04/14 23:35:50 $
+  ______________                           $Date: 2000/05/26 23:51:09 $
 
   DEVELOPMENT STATE
 
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@
   IN PROGRESS
 
     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
+        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.
-	Documentation for the openssl utility.
 
   NEEDS PATCH
 
@@ -79,16 +79,6 @@
                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