On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Tom Ritter <[email protected]> wrote: > 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])
Part of the challenge there is that OpenSSL implements many specialized optimizations for different curves, some of which may be patented, and provides no useful differentiation between the boring, existed since the mid 80s, generic implementations ECDSA over prime fields and things like the specialized implementations for characteristic 2 fields which are a lot closer to patented subject matter. This is really something that upstream should care about and have some ongoing diligence in dealing with, that it doesn't reflects poorly the quality of its maintenance. _______________________________________________ OTR-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-dev
