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Author meador.inge
Recipients jcea, meador.inge, naif, pitrou, python-dev
Date 2011-12-21.05:18:25
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ECC is *not* available in the OpenSSL package provided on RedHat systems.  RedHat intentionally strips it due to patent concerns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_patents).  Therefore committing this work made it much more difficult to build the ssl module on RedHat systems.

I couldn't find a clear statement of this in any RedHat documentation, but I did find a few references to the stripping in these places:

   * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=623483
   * https://www.martineve.com/2011/07/22/using-elliptical-curve-cryptography-in-openssh/
   * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615372

Perhaps we should make these algorithms build conditional?  Are these patent issues of concern to us?
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