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Re: Elliptic Curve support in 2.4 branch

To: hyc@symas.com (Howard Chu), a.chelouah@gmail.com (Abdelkader Chelouah), openldap-technical@openldap.org (openldap-technical@openldap.org)
Subject: Re: Elliptic Curve support in 2.4 branch
From: manu@netbsd.org (Emmanuel Dreyfus)
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 05:00:46 +0200
In-reply-to: <0205c37a-3189-7d15-99bd-b7ae7a2eaf56@symas.com>
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Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:

> > Elliptic Curve support for OpenSSL was added in master branch 4 years
> > ago (ITS#7595). Is there any plan to backport EC support for OpenSSL in
> > 2.4 branch ?
> 
> OpenLDAP 2.4 is feature-frozen. All new features are 2.5 only.

For however is interested, OpenLDAP 2.4 branch can be easily patched to
backport ITS#7595. NetBSD's pkgsrc package system have provided an
ECDH-enabled 2.4 OpenLDAP for 22 months now. Here is the up to date
patch:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/~checkout~/pkgsrc/databases/openldap
/patches/patch-its7595?rev=1.2

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
manu@netbsd.org

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