I thought about this also, but I decided not to do it. Gentoo has clearly decided not to include the Elliptic Curve algorithms until they can get confirmation that it works on all archs. Funtoo has taken the opposite position.

From the looks of the Gentoo thread, they should add the flag in the near future, and I think it would be more diplomatic to just let the process play out.

My hope is that a Google search would lead most people to this post. I just created the ebuild in my overlay because I wanted it now and I thought some other enthusiasts would also want it now. I hope it works for you, and would be interested if it makes a difference.

Thanks for your contribution, can you also add some note to the underlying bug report https://bugs.gentoo.org/469976 so others may see it easier? -Jeremy

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Harold Naparst <harold@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

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If you want a version of openssl compiled with the enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128 option and you are using Gentoo Linux, you can grab it from my overlay: