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Re: [Dcrup] Hey, crypto experts, what signing algorithm should we add

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Sat, 10 June 2017 14:51 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 15:51:03 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Dcrup] Hey, crypto experts, what signing algorithm should we add
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On 10 June 2017 at 13:55, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
> Any suggestions?

I thought that you had already settled on Ed25519.  Availability is
the only concern of note based on your criteria.  We don't have it in
NSS (yet) and it's a bit green in some other libraries, but it's still
pretty widely available.

I see no huge motivation for Ed448 or ECDSA at this stage.

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