> Am 02.08.2015 um 01:10 schrieb Ben Harris <bjh21@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > [ posted to comp.security.ssh last month, to no reply ] > Didn't know it still exists. > I've written an Internet-Draft describing how to use Ed25519 in SSH and > formally allocating the name "ssh-ed25519" for it: > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bjh21-ssh-ed25519/ > > The primary purpose of this is to regularise the use of that name by implementations. I'd like to know what the OpenSSH developers think of this draft. Questions I'm particularly interested in are: > > * Is the specification technically correct? yes. > > * Is my guess that the first implementation of ssh-ed25519 was in > OpenSSH by Markus Friedl correct? yes, I don't know of any prior implementations. > > * Is there a better way to reference the OpenSSH 6.5 release notes? I don't think so. > > * Should this be Informational or Standards Track? An IETF-approved > Informational RFC is the minimum that's required to get an algorithm > name allocated, but if ssh-ed25519 is expected to be the new standard > public-key format, maybe it's worth the effort to put this on the > Standards Track. Standards Track would be nice, but I'm also undecided about the effort. Thanks! -m > > Thanks for your attention. > > -- > Ben Harris > _______________________________________________ > openssh-unix-dev mailing list > openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
