Re: OpenSSL and Elliptic Curve cryptography
Marcus Meissner <[email protected]>
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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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]