| From: Richard Barnes <rbarnes@xxxxxxx> | ... all the openssl headers seem to be | present *except* the elliptic curve ones (ec.h and ecdh.h). Can anyone give me | an idea of why this is? Pure guess: Certicom asserts that it has patents on this stuff. I am not a cryptographer but I talked to Hilarie Orman and others about some elliptical curve stuff at an IETF meeting. There was a disagreement about whether Certicom patents left enough gaps to allow useful open source code. Here's a sample message that I got via google: http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ipsec/1998/07/msg00119.html
