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  1. Bug #1018522
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Comment 0 for bug 1018522

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cc (codecrumb) wrote :

This is to turn on the code contributed by Google for optimized 64bit implementations of elliptic curves.

From the OpenSSL changelog,

Specify "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128" on the Configure (or config) command
     line to include this in your build of OpenSSL, and run "make depend" (or
     "make update"). This enables the following EC_METHODs:

So it really is as simple as enabling an additional compile flag.