Re: OpenSSL and Elliptic Curve cryptography

Marcus Meissner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.security
Organization SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Jennifer Guild, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:09:20PM -0500, Bill Merriam wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 17:35:00 +0100
> Marcus Meissner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 11:31:05AM -0500, Bill Merriam wrote:
> > > The openssl package is currently built without support for Elliptic
> > > Curve cryptography. 
> > 
> > This is incorrect. What makes you think it is?
> > 
> > CIao, Marcus
> 
> Thank you, Marcus, for your quick reply.  
> 
> You are right.  My statement was incorrect.  I should have said it is
> built without support for some of the curves that openssl includes.  I
> ran into this trying to run Tribler which uses KEYPAIR_ECC_CURVE =
> EC.NID_sect233k1 which our build does not include.  There is a
> configuration option "no-ec2m" which may be involved.

The "no-ec2m" option is set in our build, correct, so no binary
curves are included by default.

> Can you explain why they have more curves than we do?

You probably know the first rule of talking to the legal department.

Ciao, Marcus
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