Bug 1012269

Summary:	bouncycastle: implements elliptic curve cryptography
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk>
Component:	bouncycastle	Assignee:	Mat Booth <mat.booth>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	i.grok, langel, mat.booth, puntogil, rsawhill, samuel-rhbugs, tcallawa
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Bug Depends On:	319901
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Description Mikolaj Izdebski 2013-09-26 07:19:54 UTC

Description of problem:
bouncycastle implements elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), which is patented and therefore not allowed to be included in Fedora.

See bug #319901 for detailed discussion about ECC in OpenSSL package.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.46-10

Steps to Reproduce:
1. unpack package sources
2. grep -i -r elliptic

Comment 1 Mat Booth 2013-09-26 12:56:08 UTC

For me, this really depends on two things:

a) The resolution of bug #319901 -- I'm not about to do any work on this that may be rendered unnecessary (I am a volunteer)

b) Whether bouncycastle actually implements the same allegedly patented algorithms as openssl (I don't think a cursory grep confirms this)

Comment 2 gil cattaneo 2013-09-26 15:00:12 UTC

(In reply to Mat Booth from comment #1)
> For me, this really depends on two things:
> 
> a) The resolution of bug #319901 -- I'm not about to do any work on this
> that may be rendered unnecessary (I am a volunteer)
> 
> b) Whether bouncycastle actually implements the same allegedly patented
> algorithms as openssl (I don't think a cursory grep confirms this)

+1
regards

Comment 3 Mikolaj Izdebski 2013-09-27 06:32:29 UTC

(In reply to Mat Booth from comment #1)
> For me, this really depends on two things:
> 
> a) The resolution of bug #319901 -- I'm not about to do any work on this
> that may be rendered unnecessary (I am a volunteer)
> 
> b) Whether bouncycastle actually implements the same allegedly patented
> algorithms as openssl (I don't think a cursory grep confirms this)

No argument here.  I just thought that it would be nice to track it and that as a new maintainer of bouncycastle you might be not aware of this issue.

Comment 4 Mat Booth 2013-09-27 06:53:43 UTC

Fair enough, thanks for raising the ticket.

Comment 5 Scott Schmit 2013-10-15 10:36:20 UTC

This may now be a non-issue. See bug #319901. CC'ing Tom.

Comment 6 Tom "spot" Callaway 2014-06-25 14:23:04 UTC

After review, I'm pretty sure this is a non-issue. Closing.