Monthly status: February

2022-02-28 Thread Dr Paul Dale

Significant activities throughout February included:

 * Fixes for scrypt testing & maximum memory usage
 * Lots of policy updates and policy creation:
 o Committer policy
 o Documentation policy
 o Versioning policy
 o Staff unavailability policy (in progress)
 o Glossary and amalgamation of definitions
 * Coverity fixes as and when required
 * Responding to FIPS related questioning
 * Fixed the OMC/OTC/Committer status scripts
 * QUIC investigation and planning
 o Picoquic
 o lsquic
 o Timer wheels
 * Caching algorithms with NULL property queries

This is in addition to the usual nightly meetings, issue triage, pull 
request reviews and responding to questions etc



Pauli




Monthly Status - February

2021-02-28 Thread Dr Paul Dale

Significant activities throughout February were:

 * Deprecation of RAND_METHOD and associated fallout
 * no-cache builds work and multitude of problems that fell out of this
 * Fixing a DRBG problem reported by the FIPS lab to do with entropy input
 * Investigation of DRBG incorrect output issue
 * Add EVP_xxx_CTX_gettable_params and EVP_xxx_CTX_settable_params calls
 * Improvements to the MAC API
 * Improvements to the KDF API
 * Improvement to the RAND API


In addition were minor pull requests, reviewing, OMC and OTC business, 
et al.



Pauli