Hello Nils Larsch,
Thank you so much for your help. When will OpenSsl 9.8 be released ?
Thanks,
Prashant Kumar.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nils Larsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 4:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Elliptic curve in 9.7a
Prashant Kumar wrote:
> Hello Group,
Hi Prashant,
> Do we support curves K-163 (Group 7) and B-283 (Group 8) in the
> Elliptic
> curve implementation
> in 9.7a ? .
No, OpenSSL 0.9.7 supports only the basic arihtmetic for curves over GF(p). For support of binary curves you must wait for 0.9.8 (try the current head).
> Do we have any example program on how can we use it (I
> checked in the apps directory
> and didn't find anything) ?.
In the head are some examples (ectest, ecdsatest, apps/ec.c ...).
> Also, is there any licensing/patent issue
> if we use this Elliptic curve
> implementation in our product ?.
Don't know, but we tried to avoid patented algorithm.
Regards,
Nils
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