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On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 08:54:40AM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote: |
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> Is there any advice on how this impacts net-misc/dropbear? That has ECC |
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> (both ECDSA and Ed25519) support, and I use it for SGI/MIPS netboot images. |
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> The build doesn't have any bindist uses in it, and ECC support is a |
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> localoptions.h compile-time option (enabled by default). ECC is much faster |
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> on old SGI hardware and generating the hostkeys at bootup takes just a |
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> second or two, whereas RSA can take up to 10-15 seconds. So I'd like to be |
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> able to use ECC on these platforms and distribute netboot images using them. |
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RedHat doesn't seem to disable ECC in Dropbear: |
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https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/dropbear/blob/rawhide/f/dropbear.spec |
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Based on what they've said for OpenSSL, I would expect that they SHOULD |
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have disabled ECC there, but there is certainly no consistency from |
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them. |
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Probably nobody asked legal and just shipped dropbear anyway. |
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If you wanted to stir the pot, you could post to the Fedora legal list |
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and ask for consistency ;-). |
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