I have started this vote and will report back when I have an answer. Matt
On 14/09/2020 09:18, Matt Caswell wrote: > Currently, 1.1.1 supports SM2 asymmetric encryption. Real world use of > this is currently believed to be low (IIUC it is mainly useful for SM2 > in TLS, which we don't current support). A discussion in PR #12536 is > proposing to drop this feature from 3.0 (possibly to re-introduce it in > some later release). This was mentioned on this list by me in this post: > > https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-project/2020-August/002138.html > > No feedback has been received on that point. It was also discussed at > the recent OMC f2f (although no vote was held on the issue). Since > dropping this support is a breaking change it requires an OMC vote to > approve it. I'm proposing this vote wording: > > "Support for SM2 asymmetric encryption should be dropped from OpenSSL 3.0" > > Please let me know any thoughts on the vote wording (or any other > thoughts on the topic). Otherwise I plan to start this vote soon. > > Matt >
