On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:38 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Carsten Mattner > <carstenmattner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 I can't find the link but remember that there was talk about about reversing that decision after some investigation was finished. If Fedora doesn't plan to ship it with ECDSA enabled, what's the purpose of the Fedora ECC/TLS Test Server found here: https://ecc.fedora.redhat.com/ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
