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Id: 91149
Status: resolved
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Queue: CryptX
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Requestors: christopher [...] pobox.com
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  Tue Dec 03 08:09:50 2013 christopher [...] pobox.com - Ticket created
Subject: Suspected backdoors in all supported curves, no support for suspected clean curves
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 23:09:21 +1000
To: bug-CryptX [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Chris Drake <christopher [...] pobox.com>
According to Snowden & suspected by Bruce Schneier, all the supported curves here have probable back doors. Support for other curves free from the influence of the NSA is needed in here.
  Wed Dec 11 10:00:09 2013 MIK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
I'll try to add generic support for passing custom curve parameters, libtomcrypt has support for this - I just need to design proper perl interface + implement better key export/import.
  Wed Dec 11 10:00:10 2013 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Wed Jan 15 05:26:57 2014 MIK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
The latest DEV release contains improved ECC module which now supports more predefined curves + allows you to use custom curve definition. See https://metacpan.org/pod/release/MIK/CryptX-0.019_1/lib/Crypt/PK/ECC.pm#generate_key
  Wed Jan 15 05:27:17 2014 MIK [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'patched'
  Sat Jan 18 04:21:02 2014 MIK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
released 0.020 with fix for this rt
  Sat Jan 18 04:21:03 2014 MIK [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'patched' to 'resolved'