Monthly Status Report (October)

[Matt Caswell]

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

- Numerous OMC related tasks
- Investigated issue with RSA and padding with RSA_PKCS1_WITH_TLS_PADDING
- Investigated and developed a fix for dynamic engine loading (currently 
pending)
- QUIC investigations
- Identified and fixed an issue in pkey_set_type() which was mishandling 
ENGINE references
- Changed the default security level to 2 in master
- Fixes for short buffer handling
- Updates to the platform policy as per OMC decisions
- Fixed signature newctx documentation
- Fixed the s_server psk_server_cb to correctly handle DTLS
- Fixed some engine related problems
- Investigated a regression in the DES code
- Updated the documentation for EVP_get_cipherbyname/EVP_get_digestbyname
- Fixed a gcc 11.2.0 warning
- Fixed no-cmac
- Fixed a crash when encoding a public key with no public key value
- Worked on a design process for OTC
- Investigated MAC XOF interface issue


Matt