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| author |   miod <miod@openbsd.org> | 2014-04-15 18:53:13 +0000 |
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| committer | miod <miod@openbsd.org> | 2014-04-15 18:53:13 +0000 |
| commit | 3bc43f52e10f74c4956eef2cc95c66f5dc832c92 (patch) | |
| tree | 3c08385d361cd834042018a2826f444c75c18fd5 /lib | |
| parent | No licence. (diff) | |
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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.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ec.pod | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ecparam.pod | 3 |
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> |