Re: [TLS] Strawman on EdDSA/Ed25519 in TLS

Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> Mon, 01 June 2015 11:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Strawman on EdDSA/Ed25519 in TLS
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On 01/06/15 11:46, Yoav Nir wrote:
<snip>
>> "1.3.114 - Check Point's registered prefix"
>>
>> Yoav?
>
> That’s interesting. I’ll ask around.
<snip>

Thanks Yoav.


Another candidate to ask...

http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/1.3.101.html
Thawte are a commercial CA (owned by Symantec these days), so I expect 
they'll want to use EdDSA for TLS server certs at some point.

101 could create some nice OID encodings for EC, Ed*, Ed25519 and Ed448. 
  :-D


$ echo "06032b6563" | xxd -r -ps | openssl asn1parse -inform der -i
     0:d=0  hl=2 l=   3 prim: OBJECT            :1.3.101.99
$ echo "06032b6563" | xxd -r -ps | xxd
0000000: 0603 2b65 63                             ..+ec

$ echo "06032b6564" | xxd -r -ps | openssl asn1parse -inform der -i
     0:d=0  hl=2 l=   3 prim: OBJECT            :1.3.101.100
$ echo "06032b6564" | xxd -r -ps | xxd
0000000: 0603 2b65 64                             ..+ed

$ echo "06032b6532" | xxd -r -ps | openssl asn1parse -inform der -i
     0:d=0  hl=2 l=   3 prim: OBJECT            :1.3.101.50
$ echo "06032b6532" | xxd -r -ps | xxd
0000000: 0603 2b65 32                             ..+e2

$ echo "06032b6534" | xxd -r -ps | openssl asn1parse -inform der -i
     0:d=0  hl=2 l=   3 prim: OBJECT            :1.3.101.52
$ echo "06032b6534" | xxd -r -ps | xxd
0000000: 0603 2b65 34                             ..+e4

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