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Regarding DNSSEC, it should be noted that ECDSA was specified in April 2012 (RFC 6605) and resolver support started with Unbound 1.4.17 (May 2012) and BIND 9.9.2 (Oct 2012). So this was very recent and the percentage of resolvers on the Internet which have already upgraded to an ECDSA-enabled release is so small that it is absolutely pointless to use ECDSA with DNSSEC now. Most of the resolvers won't recognize the algorithm and will treat the zone contents as unsigned.

Regarding OpenSSL, I tested ECC with S/MIME in 2009 and it turned out to be unsupported. Just tried it again with 1.0.1e and it's still not supported. It works for TLS but the problem is that vendors ship outdated releases: Debian stable comes with 1.0.1 which is good, RHEL comes with 1.0.0 which is not so good (no TLS 1.2), SLES comes with 0.9.8j (even in the recently release SLES 11 SP3) which is very bad.

So support for ECC is still very disappointing and far away from being usable in production.




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