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Re: [dnsext] about ECDSA

Francis Dupont <Francis.Dupont@fdupont.fr> Wed, 11 April 2012 11:45 UTC

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From: Francis Dupont <Francis.Dupont@fdupont.fr>
To: Wes Hardaker <wjhns1@hardakers.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:25:01 PDT. <0l7gxnvcc2.fsf@wjh.hardakers.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:45:05 +0200
Cc: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>, dnsext@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [dnsext] about ECDSA
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 In your previous mail you wrote:

>  FD> => in fact a configure-time option: after this unexpected (:-) test of
>  FD> the ECDSA support detection, I looked at the .spec file: OpenSSL was
>  FD> configured with 'no-ec no-ecdh no-ecdsa'...
>  
>  It's worse than that: they've also removed the code from their compile.
>  So even if you pull the spec and rebuild with their package, you still
>  need to use an original (unmodified) upstream source tar-ball.
>  
>  But the good news is that it's still pretty easy.

=> as far as I can understand from the Fedora mailing-lists, the reason
is patents on EC technology...

Regards

Francis.Dupont@fdupont.fr
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