[CentOS] Elliptic curve on Centos 6.x

Adrian Sevcenco wrote:

> i was just blew away by this:
> "What almost all commentators have missed is
> that hidden away in the small print (and subsequently confirmed by our
> specific query) is that if you want to be FIPS 140-2 compliant you MUST
> use the compromised points."

I'm a complete innocent in this area, but is it necessary to be
"FIPS 140-2 compliant" if you are not dealing the US (or other?) government?

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Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland