From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, licenses@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidance on distributed patented software
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:37:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <robbat2-20210922T162642-155590902Z@orbis-terrarum.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d104f89d-a4bc-cbca-38db-750e6bb217a4@gentoo.org>
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On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 08:54:40AM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote:
> Is there any advice on how this impacts net-misc/dropbear? That has ECC
> (both ECDSA and Ed25519) support, and I use it for SGI/MIPS netboot images.
> The build doesn't have any bindist uses in it, and ECC support is a
> localoptions.h compile-time option (enabled by default). ECC is much faster
> on old SGI hardware and generating the hostkeys at bootup takes just a
> second or two, whereas RSA can take up to 10-15 seconds. So I'd like to be
> able to use ECC on these platforms and distribute netboot images using them.
RedHat doesn't seem to disable ECC in Dropbear:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/dropbear/blob/rawhide/f/dropbear.spec
Based on what they've said for OpenSSL, I would expect that they SHOULD
have disabled ECC there, but there is certainly no consistency from
them.
Probably nobody asked legal and just shipped dropbear anyway.
If you wanted to stir the pot, you could post to the Fedora legal list
and ask for consistency ;-).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-22 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-20 16:46 [gentoo-dev] Guidance on distributed patented software Alec Warner
2021-09-20 17:27 ` Rich Freeman
2021-09-20 18:15 ` Robin H. Johnson
2021-09-20 18:41 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-09-20 19:20 ` Robin H. Johnson
2021-09-22 12:54 ` Joshua Kinard
2021-09-22 16:37 ` Robin H. Johnson [this message]
2021-09-23 5:54 ` Joshua Kinard
2021-09-23 15:52 ` Peter Stuge
[not found] ` <CAAr7Pr9a6cRbHDxkUbKwxabW8skh1izA7C2GqTE1XF8mg-CV0g@mail.gmail.com>
2021-09-24 7:46 ` Joshua Kinard
[not found] ` <20210924095510.6ff13620@computer>
2021-09-25 19:44 ` Joshua Kinard
2021-09-26 17:09 ` Peter Stuge
2021-09-26 19:20 ` Rich Freeman
2021-09-27 18:14 ` Marek Szuba
2021-09-27 21:09 ` Rich Freeman
2021-09-26 19:41 ` Sam James
2021-09-21 15:25 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2021-09-20 18:30 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ulrich Mueller
2021-09-26 6:38 ` Alec Warner
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