On 26 August 2013 12:29, Paul Wouters <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Aug 2013, Jurre van Bergen wrote: > >>> ECC is still problematic patent-wise. It is getting better, but it is >>> still not supported in current releases of Fedora and RHEL. >>> >> Are all the ECC ciphers disabled in Fedora/RHEL? > > > Yes. All ECC is currently banned. While the push to allow ECC is getting > stronger, we are not there yet.
A small note - ECC is being enabled in RHEL[0], but not (yet) in Fedora. If that sounds crazy, it is, but it's also the truth[1]. (If anyone wants to help them, they basically just need to know the [specific, mathematical equations used in] ECC operations in openssl, and their publish date.[2]) -tom [0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960193 [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901#c66 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901#c64 _______________________________________________ OTR-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-dev
