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authormiod <miod@openbsd.org>2014-04-15 18:53:13 +0000
committermiod <miod@openbsd.org>2014-04-15 18:53:13 +0000
commit3bc43f52e10f74c4956eef2cc95c66f5dc832c92 (patch)
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No longer mention OPENSSL_EC_BIN_PT_COMP being required to allow for
`compressed' EC point representation. First, as researched by djb, quoting from http://cr.yp.to/ecdh/patents.html : ``It should, in any case, be obvious to the reader that a patent cannot cover compression mechanisms published seven years before the patent was filed.'' Second, that define was actually removed from the code in in OpenSSL 1.0.0.
-rw-r--r--lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ec.pod3
-rw-r--r--lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ecparam.pod3
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ec.pod b/lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ec.pod
index 5c7b45d4e75..95190a9a2e7 100644
--- a/lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ec.pod
+++ b/lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ec.pod
@@ -114,9 +114,6 @@ This specifies how the points on the elliptic curve are converted
into octet strings. Possible values are: B<compressed> (the default
value), B<uncompressed> and B<hybrid>. For more information regarding
the point conversion forms please read the X9.62 standard.
-B<Note> Due to patent issues the B<compressed> option is disabled
-by default for binary curves and can be enabled by defining
-the preprocessor macro B<OPENSSL_EC_BIN_PT_COMP> at compile time.
=item B<-param_enc arg>
diff --git a/lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ecparam.pod b/lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ecparam.pod
index 788c074d7b4..d11c0a27f95 100644
--- a/lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ecparam.pod
+++ b/lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ecparam.pod
@@ -88,9 +88,6 @@ This specifies how the points on the elliptic curve are converted
into octet strings. Possible values are: B<compressed> (the default
value), B<uncompressed> and B<hybrid>. For more information regarding
the point conversion forms please read the X9.62 standard.
-B<Note> Due to patent issues the B<compressed> option is disabled
-by default for binary curves and can be enabled by defining
-the preprocessor macro B<OPENSSL_EC_BIN_PT_COMP> at compile time.
=item B<-param_enc arg>