From: Arne Schwabe <a...@rfc2549.org>

OpenSSL has a weird way of only reporting EC curves that are implemented
in a certain way in the list of all EC curves. Note this fact and point
out that also the very important curves X448 and X25519 are affected.

Change-Id: I86641bf60d62a50e9b2719e809d2429d65c00097
Acked-by: Frank Lichtenheld <fr...@lichtenheld.com>
---

This change was reviewed on Gerrit and approved by at least one
developer. I request to merge it to master.

Note: I fixed some typos on-the-fly. See my comments in Gerrit
for details.

Gerrit URL: https://gerrit.openvpn.net/c/openvpn/+/366
This mail reflects revision 7 of this Change.
Acked-by according to Gerrit (reflected above):
Frank Lichtenheld <fr...@lichtenheld.com>

        
diff --git a/src/openvpn/ssl_openssl.c b/src/openvpn/ssl_openssl.c
index 686ecf7..2b3f4f4 100644
--- a/src/openvpn/ssl_openssl.c
+++ b/src/openvpn/ssl_openssl.c
@@ -2359,8 +2359,10 @@
 void
 show_available_curves(void)
 {
-    printf("Consider using openssl 'ecparam -list_curves' as\n"
-           "alternative to running this command.\n");
+    printf("Consider using 'openssl ecparam -list_curves' as alternative to 
running\n"
+           "this command.\n"
+           "Note this output does only list curves/groups that OpenSSL 
considers as\n"
+           "builtin EC curves. It does not list additional curves nor X448 or 
X25519\n");
 #ifndef OPENSSL_NO_EC
     EC_builtin_curve *curves = NULL;
     size_t crv_len = 0;


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