On 03/04/17 22:37, debbie10t wrote: > > Something to do with Licences: > #gentoo > <me> out of curiosity .. i presume gentoo intend to include elliptic > curve algos in openssl at some time ? > <iamben> they are included if you disable the bindist flag > <iamben> USE=bindist disables them, so that you can legally redistribute > your package as built > <iamben> those algorithms are (possibly) patent-encumbered
Huh!? Fedora and RHEL are usually very much weary in regards to such patents. And they've distributed openssl-1.0.1 for quite some time now, with EC (backported?) ... but, I do see that at least the Fedora packages does a lot of funky stuff in regards to EC [1] But there are some patent concerns, according to Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_patents> [1] OpenSSL 1.1.0: <http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/openssl.git/tree/> OpenSSL 1.0.2: <http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/openssl.git/tree/?h=f25> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Technologies, Inc
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