Monthly Status Report (February 2021)

[Tomas Mraz]

My key activities this month were:

- triage of newly reported issues and responding to questions
- participation on the meetings

- reviews of various PRs:
  - I've reviewed about 70 PRs this month
  - Major PRs reviewed: 
    - 3.0 alpha 12 release review
    - PROV: Add SM2 encoders and decoders, as well as support
functionality #14028
    - test/recipes: split 81_test_cmp_cli.t, add test using -engine
loader_attic #13551
    - Refactor x509_vfy.c for code cleanup #13070
    - Remove compile time algorithm checks from libssl #13916
    - Deprecate SRP #14132
    - OSSL_PARAM: Correct the assumptions on the UTF8 string length
#14168
    - Add EVP_PKEY_public_check_quick. #14206
    - EVP: Implement data-driven translation between known ctrl and
OSSL_PARAMs #13913
    - Add context gettable and settable calls #14240
    - Make i2d_PublicKey() work with provider side EC EVP_PKEYs #14291

- submitted 18 PRs:
  - In particular:
    - speed: Always use the EVP APIs for speed measurements #14228
    - Deprecated EVP_PKEY_CTX_get0_dh_kdf_ukm() and
EVP_PKEY_CTX_get0_ecdh_kdf_ukm() #14279
    - Various cleanups related to EVP_PKEY_CTX_ctrl related TODOs
#14290
    - EVP_PKEY_CTX_get/settable_params: pass provider operation context
#14338
    - Deprecate BN_pseudo_rand() and BN_pseudo_rand_range() #14080
    - Make PROV_R_ reason codes public and do some cleanup of them
#14086
    - dsa_check: Perform simple parameter check if seed is not
available #14148
    - Rename OSSL_ENCODER_CTX_new_by_EVP_PKEY and
OSSL_DECODER_CTX_new_by_EVP_PKEY #14155

Tomas