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 _______________________________________________ nettle-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/nettle-bugs
