Bug 1976662 - openssl should re-add support for code from expired patents
Summary: openssl should re-add support for code from expired patents
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 2141672
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: openssl
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: All
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dmitry Belyavskiy
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-06-27 22:27 UTC by Robin H. Johnson
Modified: 2022-11-10 12:35 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2022-11-10 12:35:30 UTC
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Description Robin H. Johnson 2021-06-27 22:27:07 UTC
Description of problem:
EC functionality is not complete.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
every version including latest rawhide when this ticket was filed...

How reproducible:
Try to use functionality that is under the removed/hobbled state.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install openssl
2. openssl ecparam -genkey -name brainpoolP512r1
3.

Actual results:
unable to create curve (brainpoolP512r1)

Expected results:
It should work because EC patents have expired.
-----BEGIN EC PARAMETERS-----
(redacted)
-----END EC PARAMETERS-----
-----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY-----
(redacted)
-----END EC PRIVATE KEY-----

Additional info:
The EC patents are marked should expire in the hobble-openssl script as 
"# EC:    ????????? ??/??/2020"

Please CC legal to confirm the Patents are expired, and should be included again.

Comment 1 Sahana Prasad 2021-06-29 15:52:35 UTC
Hi Robin,
Thanks for bringing it up.
Could you directly get in touch with Fedora legal team?
We discussed a similar case for libgcrypt earlier, and the decision was to continue to not support brainpool curves.
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/WUQNAB4EPWSJMMVECL2TZGKB5KIDESII/#WUQNAB4EPWSJMMVECL2TZGKB5KIDESII

I will close this bug as WONT FIX for now. Once we have a decision from the legal team, let us look into the next steps.
Hope this is fine for you.
Thank you.

Comment 2 Björn Esser (besser82) 2022-11-08 17:02:02 UTC
Hi Sahana,

it looks like the ECC Brainpool curves can be included in Fedora now [1].

Thank you.


[1]  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/752Z34MTHB6B4XRUW2TTAPEIUUK4O2LA/

Comment 3 Björn Esser (besser82) 2022-11-09 07:12:13 UTC
Richard Fontana confirmed Brainpool ECC is allowed for Fedora in this RHBZ [1].


[1]  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1413618#c14

Comment 4 Björn Esser (besser82) 2022-11-10 12:35:30 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2141672 ***


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