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Re: Bitcoin RPM packages for Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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backslash
on 27/02/2015, 20:18:25 UTC
But secp256k1 still needs a blessing from Red Hat Legal. See BZ#1021898.

This will not happen soon. RH was given the permission from the NSA to use the NIST curves. Most of the EC curves have patents (Certicom) on their speedup implementation. The NSA acquired the rights for the NIST curves from Certicom, if I am not mistaken. So RH will only ever provide the NIST curves, until the legal situation is clear.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_patents