Re: EC GF(2^m)

2011-08-01 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 02:51:19PM +, Spurr, Matthew E wrote: > Hello I am just looking for a simple question to be answered, and > cannot find a place to really have a discussion about it. Part of the > ECE GF(2^m) algorithms have a patent on them. I am wondering if it is > ok to use these

EC GF(2^m)

2011-08-01 Thread Spurr, Matthew E
Hello I am just looking for a simple question to be answered, and cannot find a place to really have a discussion about it. Part of the ECE GF(2^m) algorithms have a patent on them. I am wondering if it is ok to use these algorithms in a software suite that will be distributed to paying custom

Problem in RAND_query_egd_bytes?

2011-08-01 Thread Nick Gorham
Hi, Its entirly possible that I have this wrong, but I have been trying to debug a problem on AIX 5.1 wheer I seem to fail to open the socket of the entropy daemon. I still haven't fixed that yet, but I think I may have found a flaw in RAND_query_egd_bytes, at least in openssl-1.0.0d. If the