Monthly Status Report (July 2021)

[Tomas Mraz]

My key activities this month were:

- triage of newly reported issues and responding to questions
- re-triage of issues/PRs without triaged labels with closing obsolete
issues
- participation on the meetings
- studied the OpenSSL sysadmin documentation
- started studying the Buildbot documentation

- reviews of various PRs:
  - I've reviewed about 50 PRs this month
  - Notable PRs reviewed:
    - PROV & STORE: Don't decode keys in the 'file:' store loader
#15981
    - Avoid calling EVP_get_XXXbyname when legacy isn't relevant #16022
    - ASN.1: Refuse to encode to DER if non-optional items are missing
[3.0] #16036
    - EVP: Add EVP_PKEY_get0_provider() and
EVP_PKEY_CTX_get0_provider() #16063
    - Fix custom EVP_PKEY_METHODs #16118

- submitted 15 PRs:
  - In particular:
    - fips module header inclusion fine-tunning #15974
    - Split bignum code out of the sparcv9cap.c #16019
    - Allow RSA signature operations with RSA_NO_PADDING #16068 
    - Signature algos: allow having identical digest in params #16076
    - Fix potential problems with EVP_PKEY_CTX_new() with engine set
#16137

I had also 1 full week time off.

-- 
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.]