Monthly Status Report (January 2021)

2021-02-01 Thread Tomas Mraz
My key activities this month were:

- triage of newly reported issues and responding to questions
- participation on the OTC meetings
- reviews of various PRs:
  - I've reviewed about 80 PRs this month, merged many of them submitted by 3rd 
party
contributors
  - Major PRs reviewed: 
- 3.0 alpha 11 release review
- Update CMP doc on cert and key sources and extend use of PKCS#10 input 
#13841
- Deprecate EVP_KEY_new_CMAC_key #13829 
- [crypto/dh] side channel hardening for computing DH shared keys #13783
- x509_vfy.c: Fix a regression in find_issuer(); extend and re-organize 
some tests #13762
- X509_cmp(): Fix comparison in case x509v3_cache_extensions() failed to 
due to invalid cert #13755
- Major improvemens of pkey app and bugfix on IS_HTTP(S) macros #13712
- X509 app: major cleanup of user guidance, documentation, and code 
structure #13711
- Fix a crash with multi-threaded applications using the FIPS module #13660
- apps/{req,x509,ca}.c Make sure certs have SKID and AKID by default #13658
- Use centralized fetching errors #13467
- Remove pkey_downgrade from PKCS7 code #13435
- Test CLI key validation and SM2 key validation #13359
- EVP: fix keygen for EVP_PKEY_RSA_PSS #13099
- submitted 11 PRs:
   - In particular:
 - chacha20: Properly reinitialize the cipher context with NULL key #13850
 - Deprecation of the remaining functions related to X9.31 RSA key 
generation #13921
 - Rename EVP_CIPHER_CTX_get_iv and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_get_iv_state for clarity 
#13870
 - Fixes in DH derivation related to DH support in CMS #13869
 - Implement missing algorithm id generation for the RSA-PSS signatures 
#13988
- took over the PR for deprecation of EC_KEY and related functions (#13139)
  from Shane, finalized it


-- 
Tomáš Mráz
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
  Turkish proverb
[You'll know whether the road is wrong if you carefully listen to your
conscience.]




Re: Change of scenery

2021-02-01 Thread Dmitry Belyavsky
Congratulations!

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 10:27 PM Dr Paul Dale  wrote:

> Letting people know that I'm starting as an OpenSSL fellow today.
>
> I'm looking forward to working as part of the team and I'll be able to
> fully devote my efforts to the benefit of the project.
>
>
> Dr Paul Dale
>
>
>
>

-- 
SY, Dmitry Belyavsky