[OTR-dev] RSA signatures again

[Tom Ritter]

On 26 August 2013 12:29, Paul Wouters <paul at cypherpunks.ca> 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