Re: [Cfrg] Using ED25519 in SSHFP Resource Records - draft-moonesamy-sshfp-ed25519-01

Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com> Tue, 01 April 2014 16:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Using ED25519 in SSHFP Resource Records - draft-moonesamy-sshfp-ed25519-01
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On Apr 1, 2014 9:34 AM, "S Moonesamy" <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I posted a message previously about using ED25519 in SSHFP Resource
Records ( http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg04200.html).
 It would help if I could get some feedback from CFRG about
draft-moonesamy-sshfp-ed25519-01 (
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-moonesamy-sshfp-ed25519-01 ).
>

I don't see anything for CFRG. The SHA256 hash of a string of bytes
identifies that string. I assume Ed255 19 in SSH is defined elsewhere, and
I can trust the OpenSSH people to do things right. So from a crypto
perspective it looks fine to me.

> Thanks,
> S. Moonesamy
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