On Tuesday 03 November 2009 14:29:43 Rob Stradling wrote: > On Tuesday 03 November 2009 13:42:14 David Stutzman wrote: > <snip> > Hi David. > > Gentoo's NSS package supports ECC because I asked them to enable it: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/247221 > > I don't think it was ever a deliberate decision on their part to not enable > it previously. They raised no objections to my request.
FYI, the story was apparently very similar with Ubuntu and Debian: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nss/+bug/232392 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=490826 All it needed was somebody to ask them to set NSS_ENABLE_ECC=1 by default in their NSS packages. <snip> Rob Stradling Senior Research & Development Scientist C·O·M·O·D·O - Creating Trust Online -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
