Monthly status: April

2022-05-01 Thread Dr Paul Dale

Significant activities throughout January included:

 * Fixes for Coverity issues (> 15)
 * Investigation into MS QUIC performance issues (ongoing)
 * Wrote document describing how to set up and performance test MS QUIC
 * Investigation into security vulnerably (not yet public)
 * Working on the contractor working hours policy
 * Investigation into timer based event queuing
 * Design and planning meetings for 3.1, including document reading
   that had fallen behind

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




Monthly status: April

2021-05-02 Thread Dr Paul Dale

Significant activities throughout April were:

 * Coverity triage and fixes
 * AES-CBC speed fix
 * KMAC buffer overflow fix
 * Removal of EVP_sha() and friends in favour of EVP_MD_fetch()
 * SipHash control fix
 * Document different returns from control functions
 * Fix double free issue
 * Triage and fix all failing run-checker jobs (ongoing)
 * Add additional run-checker jobs to cover missing options (ongoing)
 * EVP_MAC proposal for XOF MACs
 * Disable ACVP test code by default
 * Fix a threading problem in EVP_fetch with the default library context.


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



Pauli