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I’m still not sure why I should use Ed25519? Is it just cryptographically “tougher”?
by SomaticPirate 6y ago
I’m still not sure why I should use Ed25519? Is it just cryptographically “tougher”?
- Enginerrrd 6y agoAs I understand it, it's computationally faster and the same key size confers much more security than RSA. That said, there are some elliptic curve skeptics out there that think the NSA has cooked certain curves or may have techniques we don't know about and that's why they've been pushing it so hard. The latter being less likely than the former. Don't use the NIST curves.
- numpad0 6y agoRSA getting weaker ECDSA suspected backdoored by NSA EdDSA/Ed25519 like ECDSA but community made RSA32768 might be okay but weird
- cryptonector 6y agoECDSA isn't thought to be backdoored so much as designed on purpose to be very difficult to get right / very easy to get catastrophically wrong.