[Cryptech Tech] Curve 25519 in use cases?

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Tue Mar 3 22:50:33 UTC 2015


On Mon 2015-03-02 10:39:51 +0100, Joachim Strömbergson wrote:
> In what use cases do we see Curve 25519. And how is the algorithm being
> used - DH only?

in OpenPGP, we currently only have EdDSA mechanisms propoesd (and
implemented) by Werner Koch, and *not* yet DH.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-koch-eddsa-for-openpgp

fwiw, i'd like to see EC DH added for 25519 soon too, but it isn't
spec'ed out yet.

             --dkg


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