Re: Encumbered EC crypto algorithms in openssl?

2013-08-17 Thread Scott Doty
On 08/16/2013 08:02 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com mailto:n...@cryptonector.com wrote: If only we could agree to use DJB's Curve25519... +1 That's actually a handy reference, for in looking at Curve25519, I came

Re: Encumbered EC crypto algorithms in openssl?

2013-08-17 Thread Nico Williams
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Scott Doty scott+open...@sonic.net wrote: That's actually a handy reference, for in looking at Curve25519, I came across... http://cr.yp.to/ecdh/patents.html That's half the point, yes. It'd be all of the point if Curve25519 didn't also rock perf-wise.

Encumbered EC crypto algorithms in openssl?

2013-08-16 Thread Scott Doty
Hello, As you may or may not know, Red Hat has vetoed use of ECC in openssl in their stock Fedora. The bug regarding this is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901 In a nutshell: Red Hat is so afraid of patent trolls,

Re: Encumbered EC crypto algorithms in openssl?

2013-08-16 Thread Nico Williams
If only we could agree to use DJB's Curve25519... __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing Listopenssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager

Re: Encumbered EC crypto algorithms in openssl?

2013-08-16 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.comwrote: If only we could agree to use DJB's Curve25519... +1