[OTR-dev] RSA signatures again

[Jurre van Bergen]

On 08/25/2013 05:46 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Aug 2013, Ian Goldberg wrote:
>
>>> Allow me to hijack this thread a bit.. what happened to the idea of
>>> swapping out DSA for ECC? Wouldn't it make more sense to include ECC
>>> and
>>> not RSA? Especially with the look at the future?
>>
>> I'm more willing to discuss some variant of ECDSA (Ed25519?).  But one
>> of my big concerns is support in the variety of languages for which
>> there already exist libotr implementations.
>
> 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?

All the best,
Jurre

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