Dmitry Belyavskiy
TL,DR: Stockholm syndrome with OpenSSL.
I have been working with OpenSSL code since late 2004. Working on implementing national cryptography for OpenSSL, I got familiar with many parts of the library.
Since 2020 I apply my knowledge of OpenSSL for Red Hat, currently I'm most busy with post-quantum transition of Red Hat and OpenSSL
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Before OpenSSL 3.5 we implied that symmetric keys are always represented as an array of bytes. Unfortunately, that's not enough for non-extractable symmetric keys.
Since 3.5 we are closing this deficiency.
Since 2014 we see a lot of different forks of OpenSSL project, with various goals and limitations.
The diverging of the OpenSSL forks impacts the application developers - they have to maintain slightly different code paths.