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OpenSSL Gets Cryptography Gift From Sun

Posted by timothy on from the curvaceousness dept.

Kataire writes "C|Net posted this story about how Sun Microsystems' has donated 'elliptic curve' encryption technology, (developed by Whitfield Diffie of Diffie-Hellman public key fame) to the OpenSSL project. This potentially means better encryption for lighter-weight systems such as PDAs."

3 of 217 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Great! by mdechene · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, palms get lonely too.

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    Karma: Not Particularly Funny.
  2. Re:When cryptography is outlawed, by unicron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I got 18 "cows" working on that right now, with ya in a sec.

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    Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
  3. Why don't they release a OPENSSL patch for Cobalts by backtick · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    If they are so *&*^ serious about security? The slapper worm has been out for quite a while now, and Sun's cobalts run a REALLY old version of OpenSSL. Sun's last patch was released almost a month ago, for a CGI vulnerability. They've been asked dozens of times about the OpenSSL patch, and won't even give customers the courtesy of a "We're going to have one by X" response. CobaltOS is just a flippin' rebuilt RedHat OS; it isn't hard to patch!