Apologies if this has been already discussed before, I couldn't find any reference in the archives.
The version of OpenSSL shipped by Fedora comes with the ECDSA and ECDH algorithms stripped from the source code. Ubuntu and Debian instead are shipping ECC-enabled versions of OpenSSL.
I did some research and found that ECC *might* be covered by a number of patents: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_patents
I was told that the last patent supposedly covering ECC will expire in 2012, but I can't find a reliable source confirming this. Additionally, D. J. Bernstein thinks that ECDSA and ECDH can be *already* implemented without infringing: http://cr.yp.to/ecdh/patents.html
As usual in these cases, there's a lot of uncertainty around the ECC patents and few people are willing to publicly discuss the problem. Can anyone help shred some light?
On 06/02/2011 02:23 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
As usual in these cases, there's a lot of uncertainty around the ECC patents and few people are willing to publicly discuss the problem. Can anyone help shred some light?
Please do not continue this thread. Speculation on patents is inappropriate on this mailing list.
~tom
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