Re: Brainpool Curves in Fedora (openssl, libgcrypt, gnupg)

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On Mon, 2021-09-13 at 08:56 +0200, Jakub Jelen wrote:
> On 3/18/21 4:10 PM, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:06 AM Jakub Jelen <jjelen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > We need to strip these curves from upstream tarballs and it would be
> > > great to have this resolved (in either way) rather sooner than later.
> > > 
> > The Brainpool curves are not approved for use in Fedora at this time.
> 
> Hi,
> I wanted to bring up this topic once more again as it was suggested that 
> if the curves are build-time disabled we should be able to go around 
> without hobbling the source tarball. I proposed the following change to 
> libgcrypt to support build-time disabling brainpool curves and I wanted 
> to double-check if this approach is legally acceptable:

Long-standing policy has been that anything which cannot be included for legal
reasons must be stripped from the source tarballs, so no.


-- 
Yaakov Selkowitz
Senior Software Engineer - Platform Enablement
Red Hat, Inc.
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