559214 – dev-libs/openssl: enable ECDHE Support

Bug 559214 - dev-libs/openssl: enable ECDHE Support

Summary: dev-libs/openssl: enable ECDHE Support

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 531540

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Reported:	2015-08-31 02:57 UTC by Anton Bolshakov
Modified:	2015-09-01 04:41 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Anton Bolshakov 2015-08-31 02:57:18 UTC

There are a lot of software which requires openssl/ec.h and openssl.ecdsa.h by default.

The openssl "bindist" flag (it is off by default) disables EC due to some legal issues. However, it seems possible to enable it partially at least. For example, it was enabled in RedHat back in 2013:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901
 

Please consider enabled it in Gentoo as well.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-09-01 04:41:53 UTC

we've already reviewed the patches used in fedora and found them untenable.  it isn't merely passing a "foo" flag to the configure script.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 531540 ***