From ba9abdd4a34f80cbd31771ad00ff074c06e682dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: miod <> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:53:13 +0000 Subject: 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. --- src/lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ec.pod | 3 --- src/lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ecparam.pod | 3 --- 2 files changed, 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/lib') diff --git a/src/lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ec.pod b/src/lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ec.pod index 5c7b45d4e7..95190a9a2e 100644 --- a/src/lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ec.pod +++ b/src/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 (the default value), B and B. For more information regarding the point conversion forms please read the X9.62 standard. -B Due to patent issues the B option is disabled -by default for binary curves and can be enabled by defining -the preprocessor macro B at compile time. =item B<-param_enc arg> diff --git a/src/lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ecparam.pod b/src/lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ecparam.pod index 788c074d7b..d11c0a27f9 100644 --- a/src/lib/libssl/src/doc/apps/ecparam.pod +++ b/src/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 (the default value), B and B. For more information regarding the point conversion forms please read the X9.62 standard. -B Due to patent issues the B option is disabled -by default for binary curves and can be enabled by defining -the preprocessor macro B at compile time. =item B<-param_enc arg> -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g6feb