On 07/15/2011 08:23 AM, Kyle Hamilton wrote: > ... Excuse me, I got lost somewhere... Does this mean that it is not possible to use EC crypto with OpenSSL because the algorithms are patented? If so, why OpenSSL does provide support to EC crypto?
Sorry, I don't want to start a religion war, but as an EU citizen (and as like as many other humans too, I guess), I find unbelievably absurd the idea of patenting the mathematical description of an algorithm. Let's put it in this way: in the unlikely and deplorable event of an user willing to illegally use patented EC cryptography with OpenSSL for personal use (hence assuming responsibility for any consequence), could he/she use OpenSSL? Is OpenSSL able to handle this kind of crypto? I guess yes, for (as in the first post of the thread) I managed to apparently do a lot of things with the curve of my choice... My question is, apart from legal considerations: did I do something wrong in the certificate generation process? Thanks for any help :) ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
