On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 15:52 +0100, Niels Möller wrote:

> > Do you plan a backport of the carry propagation fix in secp384 [0]
> > for
> > nettle 2.7.1? 
> I hadn't planned to do that. Do you think I should?

It's up to you. We plan to keep using this version of the library for
quite long time.


> > My limited understanding of the 3.2 assembly file
> > wouldn't work out of the box in 2.7 due to the change from
> > ecc_curve to
> > ecc_modulus.
> 
> I don't think that should be a problem, since the first argument to
> ecc_384_modp isn't used by the assembly implementation.
> 
> Hanno already pointed to the patches prepared by the debian
> maintainer.
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=15;bug=813679;filen
> ame=nettle_2.7.1-5%2Bdeb8u1.debian.tar.xz;att=1
> (not yet available at
> https://sources.debian.net/src/nettle/2.7.1-5/debian/patches/, it
> seems).

Thank you. One more thing on that. The Debian fix uses the new asm code
under the LGPLv2+ license. Could I assume that you grant an exception
for this file?

regards,
Nikos

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