Based on an original patch by Neitrino Photonov <neitrinoph@gmail.com>

PR#3439

PR: #3424,#3423,#3422

PR#2985

Based on feedback from Jeffrey Walton.

Reduces number of silly casts in OpenSSL code and likely most
applications.  Consistent with (char *) for "peername" value from
X509_check_host() and X509_VERIFY_PARAM_get0_peername().

PR#2277

PR: #3431

PR#3418.

Pass address of X509_VERIFY_PARAM_ID peername to X509_check_host().
Document modified interface.

Declaration, memory management, accessor and documentation.

PR#319 (reoponed version).

(cherry picked from commit 2cfbec1c)

Remove RFC5878 code. It is no longer needed for CT and has numerous bugs

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PR: #3390

PR: #3397

ERR_get_error(3) references the non-existent
ERR_get_last_error_line_data instead of the one that does exist,
ERR_peek_last_error_line_data.

PR#3283

Primitive encodings shouldn't use indefinite length constructed
form.

PR#2438 (partial).

PR#2706 though patch is from PR#3366.