Re: [TLS] Updated EdDSA in TLS drafts

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Tue, 09 June 2015 00:42 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Updated EdDSA in TLS drafts
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> I don't think so.  I understand that there might be some shared code, but we
> are likely to see implementation of DH on 25519 long before signatures.

Agree, use distinct identifiers; djb thinks they are fundamentally different, and calls them X25519 and Ed25519.  (And of course the point format is different :)