EdDSA/Ed25519 I-D for OpenPGP
NIIBE Yutaka
gniibe at fsij.org
Thu Aug 21 02:32:13 CEST 2014
On 2014-08-19 at 22:04 +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> I just submitted an I-D for use of Ed25519 in OpenPGP:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-koch-eddsa-for-openpgp-00.txt
Great.
I have a question if you plan to submit another I-D for Curve25519 in
OpenPGP.
Well, I think that when people say "Curve25519", it refers two
different things: the Montgomery curve itself or the ECDH computation
with the curve. In the paragraph above, I mean ECDH computation.
Specifically,,,
> 6. Curve OID
>
> The EdDSA key parameter curve OID is an array of octets that defines
> a named curve. The table below specifies the exact sequence of bytes
> for each named curve referenced in this document:
>
> +------------------------+------+------------------------+----------+
> | OID | Len | Encoding in hex format | Name |
> +------------------------+------+------------------------+----------+
> | 1.3.6.1.4.1.11591.15.1 | 9 | 2B 06 01 04 01 DA 47 | Ed25519 |
> | | | 0F 01 | |
> +------------------------+------+------------------------+----------+
Do you intend to use this OID of Ed25519 for ECDH, too?
Or do we use another OID of Curve25519 (the Montgomery curve) for
ECDH, to specify Curve25519 (ECDH computation)?
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