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The Venn diagram of "not a programmer" and "can safely use Ed25519" is two non-overlapping circles.
by tptacek 10mo ago
The Venn diagram of "not a programmer" and "can safely use Ed25519" is two non-overlapping circles.
- alexjurkiewicz 10mo agoSimply combine this tool with `openssl enc` and your shell script is as secure as any shell script could be
- kfreds 10mo agoI don't consider myself a programmer and I can use Ed25519 safely. I do however understand computing fairly well.
- Retr0id 10mo agoI consider myself a programmer and ed25519-understander, but the idea of using it directly within a shell script terrifies me.
- PunchyHamster 10mo ago"this app needs me to generate a key and point to it in config" is plenty of overlap
- Retr0id 10mo agoIf you just want a raw ed25519 private key then `head -c32 /dev/urandom` does the job. But usually you want a DER/PEM wrapper or similar, which the openssl cli tools handle nicely.