On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 7:01 AM Fabio Valentini <decathorpe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 4:25 PM Fabio Valentini <decathorpe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> During package review of the fiat-crypto Rust library, I noticed that
> it contains an implementation of an elliptic curve (p434) which isn't
> mentioned on the "good" list here:
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:ECC
>
> I also can't find any references or sources for this curve (search
> results for P-434, p434, and curve434 all come up empty). The only
> mention of "p434" with respect to cryptography is in this Microsoft
> project:
https://github.com/microsoft/PQCrypto-SIDH
>
> And looking at the source code, I'm not even sure whether the P-434
> curve in fiat-crypto is at all related to SIKEp434 / SIDHp434 schemes
> that are mentioned there, other than the fact that they happen to be
> based on the same prime number (2^216 * 3^137 - 1).
>
> Given that there's no mention of any elliptic curves that use p434 on
> the internet (that I could find), is it OK to ship it in a Fedora
> package, or do we need to remove it from the sources?
>
> ref.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2005536
The linked package review is still blocked by this issue six months later :(
Any idea what I can do to move this forward?
Unfortunately I am pretty sure it won't be possible to get a
resolution on this any time soon.
Richard