Change default curve (for compatibility with a

soon-to-be-widely-deployed implementation that doesn't support the
previous default)

Submitted by: Douglas Stebila
This commit is contained in:
Bodo Möller 2006-03-30 02:41:30 +00:00
parent f393b7449d
commit bcbe37b716

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@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ static void sv_usage(void)
#ifndef OPENSSL_NO_ECDH
BIO_printf(bio_err," -named_curve arg - Elliptic curve name to use for ephemeral ECDH keys.\n" \
" Use \"openssl ecparam -list_curves\" for all names\n" \
" (default is sect163r2).\n");
" (default is nistp256).\n");
#endif
#ifdef FIONBIO
BIO_printf(bio_err," -nbio - Run with non-blocking IO\n");
@ -1308,10 +1308,10 @@ bad:
else
{
BIO_printf(bio_s_out,"Using default temp ECDH parameters\n");
ecdh = EC_KEY_new_by_curve_name(NID_sect163r2);
ecdh = EC_KEY_new_by_curve_name(NID_X9_62_prime256v1);
if (ecdh == NULL)
{
BIO_printf(bio_err, "unable to create curve (sect163r2)\n");
BIO_printf(bio_err, "unable to create curve (nistp256)\n");
goto end;
}
}