On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Carsten Mattner
<carstenmatt...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I've tried to search bugzilla and forums for information on ECDSA support
> in the Fedora provided OpenSSH packages, but didn't find anything conclusive.
>
> What is the status?

Elliptic curve cryptography support has been excluded from Fedora [1],
presumably due to patent concerns [2].

-T.C.

[1] 
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blob;f=hobble-openssl;h=291d8a35f7cebdaf8d131f036b6dfa60fd3e543b;hb=HEAD
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_patents
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