[Gnuk-users] Ed25519 for signing broken?

Jonathan Schleifer js-gnuk-users at webkeks.org
Wed Feb 11 21:03:10 UTC 2015


Am 11.02.2015 um 21:59 schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net>:

> On Mon 2015-02-09 20:30:00 -0500, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
>> I don't recommend using EdDSA signing yet.  It is OK for OpenSSH,
>> provided you don't distribute your public key with EdDSA subkey
>> widely.
> 
> Why should anyone avoid distributing their public key widely?  What risk
> is this preventing?

I'm guessing this about Ed25519 not being an RFC yet, but only an I-D.

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Jonathan




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