Re: [Dcrup] I-D draft-ietf-dcrup-dkim-crypto-06

Jeremy Harris <jgh@wizmail.org> Thu, 14 September 2017 08:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Dcrup] I-D draft-ietf-dcrup-dkim-crypto-06
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On 14/09/17 02:41, John Levine wrote:
> I haven't looked in detail at the APIs for Ed25519 crypto, but naively
> assumed that if the spec says there's a pure version that doesn't hash
> its input, the libraries would implement it.

Currently there is not, and the documentation seems to say there will
never be (at least for GnuTLS).  I think this needs sorting out before
publishing an RFC which might not be implementable.

I'll ask on the library mailinglists.
-- 
Cheers,
  Jeremy