Hello All! Fedora ships gnutls (and, probably, other applications) w/o SRP support, which was disabled years ago (in the era of Jeff Jonston). See technical description here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_remote_password_protocol

Being curious lad, I quickly googled about its patents issues and found numerous discussion in the past. For example:

http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/mailinglists/ips/mail/msg09292.html http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/mailinglists/ips/mail/msg08027.html

From these discussions, I found that patent holder provides a

royalty-free license:

http://otl.stanford.edu/pdf/97006.pdf

I cannot find any other patent-related info at the dedicated site (created by patent holder):

http://srp.stanford.edu/

Maybe it's time to re-add support for SRP back in Fedora?