Kent Yoder píše v St 11. 05. 2011 v 09:12 -0500: 
> Hi Dan,
> 
>   The patch Ashley is submitting doesn't implement any cryptography
> itself.  This patch is simply the plumbing needed for opencryptoki to
> access our 4765 HSM, which does all the crypto itself.

aha, then we should be safe. Thanks for clarification, but one must be
careful when Elliptic Curve is mentioned.


Dan

> Kent
> 
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Dan Horák <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Ashley Lai píše v Út 10. 05. 2011 v 15:43 -0500:
> >> Attached is the patch to support Elliptic Curve.  Please let me know if
> >> you see any issues or have any questions.
> >
> > Isn't Elliptic Curve covered by software patents? Inclusion of patented
> > technologies makes open-source software non-free and as such can't be
> > included in distributions like Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
> >
> >
> > Dan
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