OpenSSH's `ssh-keygen` command just got a great upgrade.In today's episode, I cover how Ed25519 keys are now the default, and how it probably doesn't impact ...
  • deepdive@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Strange enough TLS 1.3 still doesn’t support signed ed25519 certificates :| P‐256, NIST P‐384 or NIST P‐521 curves are known to be “backdoored” or having deliberately chosen mathematical weakness. I’m not an expert and just a noob security/selfhoster enthusiast but I don’t want to depend on curves made by NSA or other spy agencies !

    I also wondering if the EU isn’t going to implement something similar with all their new spying laws currently discussed…

    • LaggyKar
      3·
      1 year ago

      AFAIK, they’re not known to be backdoored, only suspected

      • deepdive@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah wrong wording, but the fact that we have to depend mostly on NSA’s cryptographic schemes makes it very suspicious !