Monthly Status Report (September)

[Matt Caswell]

As well as normal reviews, responding to user queries, wiki user
requests, OMC business, handling security reports, etc., key activities
this month:

- Implemented the ability for providers to perform signature operations and
moved DSA to the default provider
- Performed the release of 1.1.1d, 1.1.0l and 1.0.2t
- Fixed an issue where a non-empty status_request extension was being sent in a
CertificateRequest message
- Investigated a failure when calling DH_check() in the pyca cryptography
external tests
- Fixed no-dsa
- Fixed no-engine
- Fixed an asan failure due to an incorrect value being passed to provider KDF
functions
- Fixed undefined behaviour where NULL was passed to memcpy
- Made proposals for fixing the issue around FIPS self-test being triggered
multiple times
- Fixed an issue where EVP_MD_CTX_[gettable|settable]_params, did not actually
take an EVP_MD_CTX as a parameter
- Implemented PR for DigestSign/DigestVerify support in providers
- Fixed documentation for stateless cookie callbacks, and added documentation
for DTLSv1_listen() cookie callbacks


Matt