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Feasibility of Upgrading Cryptography? #19835

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Librechain opened this issue Nov 21, 2021 · 3 comments
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Feasibility of Upgrading Cryptography? #19835

Librechain opened this issue Nov 21, 2021 · 3 comments

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@Librechain
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Was tempted to add this in as an 'issue', but recently the NSA deprecated 256-bit strength cryptography (secp256k1 specifically; I think the NIST SP reference still recommends ed25519).

In either case, was wondering about the feasibility of upgrading to ed448. otrv4 has a similar scheme to megolm, and the increase in overhead is negligible. Minus ed448, there are no additions to any of the libraries that I can think of at this point.

Not Demanding the Change

If I can implement it on my end personally, I'm happy to do so. Just wondering if there are any caveats or things I should look out for first.

Thank you in advance for taking time to answer this.

Have you considered any alternatives?

Only alternative would be using XMPP; I already have that integration in tow - but for other things.

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@SimonBrandner
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I believe this should be filed at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/

@t3chguy
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t3chguy commented Nov 22, 2021

Agreed

@t3chguy t3chguy closed this as completed Nov 22, 2021
@Librechain
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Will do guys @t3chguy @simon; thank you.

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