On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
I am certainly not ignoring legal concerns. While there are some patented EC cryptographic techniques, the basic infrastructure including ECDH over prime fields was first published back in 1984 and is not patentable. The IETF has published an extensive RFC covering the foundations of ECC which carefully shows to-old-to-be-patentable direct citations: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6090 If Redhat is aware of a specific patent concern here, they're keeping it secret from the public. The continued claims that there are legal issues here behind basic support really don't make a lot of sense, especially considering the functionality in RHEL.
[not speaking for Red Hat] You seem to believe only valid legal claims can put Red Hat in court.
(I would also note that the support in RHEL somewhat oddly support _only_ the parameters from the NSA, which doesn't quite play into the expressed concern about backdoors)
[again not speaking for Red Hat, no idea of any arrangements] I can come up with various commercial non-conspiracy theories for this. For example, who pays the lawyers when a patent troll arrives. Paul -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
