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Probably more related to RHEL compiling openssl in FIPS mode.


No, Red Hat has confirmed that they are leery of patents.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901#c2

Tomas Mraz 2007-10-05 10:23:00 UTC: "They are intentionally removed due to possible patent issues."

Bill McGonigle 2013-04-11 06:26:53 UTC: "I've read that Sun's ECC code (that went to OpenSSL) was developed to specifically avoid Certicom patents, but I've only seen that asserted, not proven."

Jan-Frode Myklebust 2013-10-07 09:18:49 UTC: "Is this now solved in the RHEL6.5 beta... only the nistp256 and nistp384 curves are supported."




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