Hi, Is there nice way to put back EC encryption on Centos? RHEL disabled it due "patent issues", but is third party providing packages to EC enabled packages to centos ? -- Eero
On 02/01/14 04:16 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:> Hi, > > Is there nice way to put back EC encryption on Centos? > > RHEL disabled it due "patent issues", but is third party providing packages > to EC enabled packages to centos ?It would have to come from an external repo. The goal of CentOS is to be binary compatible with RHEL, warts and all. So if you know of someone with a repo that has packaged it, it's best to use that, I would think. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education?
Eero Volotinen wrote:> > Is there nice way to put back EC encryption on Centos? > > RHEL disabled it due "patent issues", but is third party providing > packages to EC enabled packages to centos ?*Which* elliptic curve? I trust you've been reading the revelations from Snowdon about the NSA putting a backdoor in the common ones, esp. the POSIX ones. mark
On 01/03/2014 10:16 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:> Hi, > > Is there nice way to put back EC encryption on Centos?Yes, yum update should do it.> RHEL disabled it due "patent issues"RedHat no longer disables the EC ciphers as of RHEL6.5 Peter