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Re: [dnsext] about ECDSA

Michael StJohns <mstjohns@comcast.net> Wed, 11 April 2012 16:22 UTC

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From: Michael StJohns <mstjohns@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:22:00 -0400
To: Francis Dupont <Francis.Dupont@fdupont.fr>
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To be specific, it's not because of the patents, but because of the fear the patents might apply to the code, a fear not shared by OpenSSL for the original code, by BouncyCastle for its java and C# providers, and Oracle for the EC code in JDK 1.7. Oh yeah, for NSS from Mozilla.  

Mike

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On Apr 11, 2012, at 7:45, Francis Dupont <Francis.Dupont@fdupont.fr> wrote:

> 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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