ECDSA support in the openssl extension

Hello all. Openssl starting from version 0.9.8 supports the ECDSA signature algorithm. Return value of the openssl_get_md_methods() also includes "ecdsa-with-SHA1" string. But if I call openssl_sign() with EC key then I have an error: "key type not supported in this PHP build!". After some time of digging I discover that this error is rises in the php_openssl_is_private_key() in the openssl.c file. This function simply don't includes check for EVP_PKEY_EC. All signature related actions are performed by OpenSSL library by self and don't depend on any internal code. Is any chance that EVP_PKEY_EC check would be added in the next release? Could I do something to speed up ECDSA adding process? -- With best wishes Sergey Ryazanov