Hi,
I sent mail to libzrtpcpp developer, he answered that
disabling elliptic curve stuff is not a good idea (libzrtpcpp built now without EC).
Other distributins seem to have no problem with it because openSSL
does
not use any of the patented enhancements for elliptic curve computations.
I know, some time ago there were discussions about this. However, Certicom
lost the law suits regarding their ECC patents. For more infor please
refer to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_patents
So, if openSSL does not use patented ECC algorithms then maybe it
can be re-enabled in openssl package?
On 12/26/2011 05:56 PM, alekcejk(a)googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to build libzrtpcpp-2.0.0 (see
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ccrtp/ ).
> But it is impossible to build it in Fedora because
> openssl/ec.h is disabled in openssl which is build with no-ec option.
>
> libzrtpcpp/crypto/openssl/ZrtpDH.cpp:46:24: fatal error: openssl/ec.h: No such file
or directory
>
> Is it possible to build openssl with enabled openssl/ec.h?
> If this is impossible is there any workaround for building libzrtpcpp-2.0.0?
Not at this time. I am researching this issue, and hopefully we will be
able to enable ec in the future.
~tom
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