On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 10:18:54AM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
On 01/09/2015 09:57 AM, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> On Fedora 21, OpenSSL doesn't appear to support NIST p224r1, but *does*
> support other NIST curves. I presume this was intentional, but I'm not
> sure why. Can someone enlighten me?
>
> $ openssl ecparam -list_curves
> secp384r1 : NIST/SECG curve over a 384 bit prime field
> secp521r1 : NIST/SECG curve over a 521 bit prime field
> prime256v1: X9.62/SECG curve over a 256 bit prime field
>
> Nathaniel
>
Individual curves must be considered by Fedora Legal on a case by case basis
see e.g.:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1067697
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1021898
Kinda affects Tor, too:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164210
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