Currently a very old PolarSSL is shipped in Fedora, which has an API which is not compliant with the stable releases. Please update PolarSSL to 1.1.1.
Please give http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3899152 a try before I push it as an update.
I've tested some of the utilities provided in polarssl-utils and built the development version of OpenVPN with additional polarssl-1.1 support patches. Just smoke tested, but it all looked very fine to me. Thanks a lot!
polarssl-1.1.1-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/polarssl-1.1.1-1.fc17
Package polarssl-1.1.1-1.fc17: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing polarssl-1.1.1-1.fc17' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-3926/polarssl-1.1.1-1.fc17 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
polarssl-1.1.1-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.