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go/common/identity: Use Ed25519 instead of P-256 for TLS certs #2058

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Yawning opened this issue Sep 4, 2019 · 2 comments · Fixed by #2600
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go/common/identity: Use Ed25519 instead of P-256 for TLS certs #2058

Yawning opened this issue Sep 4, 2019 · 2 comments · Fixed by #2600
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Yawning commented Sep 4, 2019

We use P-256 for the TLS cert signing key. Since Go 1.13 supports it, we could switch that to Ed25519. That said, I don't have anything against P-256 at this moment, and it would only be for consistency.

@Yawning Yawning added s:good first issue Status: good for newcomers c:common Category: common libraries golang labels Sep 4, 2019
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Yawning commented Nov 6, 2019

There's no real reason to do this.

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Yawning commented Jan 27, 2020

In retrospect, there is a reason to do this (#2599).

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