Re: [PATCH] Enabling ECDSA in PKCS#11 support for ssh-agent

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On 10/8/2015 12:29 PM, Damien Miller wrote:
On Thu, 8 Oct 2015, Douglas E Engert wrote:

Then what is:
1.3.6.1.4.1.11591.15.1 Ed25519

defined here:
  https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/OID-Allocations.html

The whole idea of namedCurve was you did not have to pass in the parameters,
and PKIX certificates only allow namedCurve.

Ed25519 is a different algorithm to ECDSA, not just a different curve.

Then can you comment on what Thomas Calderon said:

> This can be done already using the CKM_ECDSA mechanism parameters (see CKA_ECDSA_PARAMS in the standard).
> Given that the underlying HW or SW tokens supports Ed25519 curves, then you could leverage it even with version 2.20 of the PKCS#11 standard.




-d


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