On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:32:57PM +0200, Nils Larsch wrote:
>
> > > I'm also a bit suspicious about the OIDs of "secp192r1" and "secp256r1".
> > > In obj_dat.h they both end up having OID 0. Their corresponding OBJ_
> > > macros in obj_mac.h get mapped to OBJ_X9_62_prime{192,256}v1 (of which I
> > > suppose they are aliases), though, so it may be OK.
> > > I'm not into all the gory details of this magic - it just looked a bit
> > > odd to me...
> >
> > I am not sure about these ones. Bodo Moeller overviewed these changes,
> > based on changes submitted by Nils Larsch.
> > I have copied them through on this email to receive their comments.
>
> I think it's a bug :-) The SECG Document ( 'SEC 2: Recommended Elliptic
> Curves Domain Parameters' , see http://www.secg.org/secg_docs.htm )
> assigns new names to the OIDs of the 'prime192v1' and the 'prime256v1'
> curves, and assigning two names to one OID can't work. I attached a patch for
> the necessary changes in crypto/objects and crypto/ec (, which will remove
> the secp{192|256}r1 names).
Thanks. I have applied the patch. Please cross-check, that nothing went
wrong during the automatic updates :-)
Lutz
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