Re: [Sks-devel] Keyservers dropping ed22519 subkeys

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

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On 01/11/2015 08:20 AM, Todd Lyons wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> The ed22519 subway has been dropped. Why is this happening?
>> No it hasn't , it has just been cleaned out in the regular 
>> presentation layer, you will retrieve it by using the &clean=off 
>> option for older keyservers not supporting the protocol. You
>> should see it on 1.1.5+ servers such as [keys2.kfwebs.net]
>> though
> 
> Is that a general recommendation of upgrading to master?  That
> seems like a particularly important distinction of behavior
> change.
> 

The EdDSA I-D is not formally adopted and no algorithm ID has
subsequently been assigned to it. Ed25519 is as such rather
experimental in use and not expected to be interoperable between
clients at this point, so it alone does not merit a new release.

At the moment there are only two commits after the release of 1.1.5
though, (i) a typo fix in example file, and (ii) The EdDSA additions.
So it should be fairly stable. But no, it is not a general
recommendation to use master (although we try to keep it fairly stable).


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