Support for SSH ed25519 keys

[bbo2adwuff]

I am trying to connect to a git server with a password protected ed25519 ssh key.

Seems that password protected keys work since #155.

But I get following error:

Clone failed:
ssh://username@server/repo.git:
invalid privatekey: SOMECHARACTERS

Is ed25519 supported?

[kb-1000]

I don't think so: https://sourceforge.net/p/jsch/feature-requests/7/

[bbo2adwuff]

Too bad. Let's see if I can get another key...
But many thanks for your quick response!

[bbo2adwuff]

sshj supports ed25519, while jsch does not support it.

After having a quick look at the code, it seems that it might even be a possibility to switch to sshj.

[kb-1000]

@bbo2adwuff I think a wrapper would have to be written to make JGit compatible.
But otherwise sounds great!

[bbo2adwuff]

True, maybe I had a too quick look...

There is also a report for JGit: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=520927

[maks]

@bbo2adwuff It would be nice to support ed25519 but as pointed out, the need is to get it working with JGit.

[tutaidalal]

Is there any update for ed25519 in jSCH? In case i have to switch all the implementation to sshj then its a big effort.

[kb-1000]

No, there is no update on it. If you give me a working Jsch>sshj bridge then there might be, but I'd rather use Apache sshd when JGit is updated because JGit added support for sshd.

[maks]

closed in favour of #545