[cabfpub] [Servercert-wg] Interest in Ed25519 and/or Ed448?

[Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA)]

On 20/12/2018 12:27 μ.μ., Rob Stradling via Servercert-wg wrote:
> [Adding servercert-wg@ at Ryan's suggestion]
I suggest removing public at cabforum.org from the recipient list so that 
we don't get cross-posting.

I bcc-ed public so we can continue the discussion ONLY in servercert-wg@ 
list.


Thank you,
Dimitris.
>
> Wayne, thanks for responding.
>
> Do any of our other browser members have any plans to implement support
> for Ed25519/Ed448 public keys and certificate signatures [RFC8410] (for
> Server Authentication Certificates, or indeed for any other sort of
> publicly-trusted certificates)?
>
> On 19/12/2018 16:58, Ryan Sleevi wrote:
>> I believe this discussion is for the servercert-wg@ mailing list, right?
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 10:22 AM Wayne Thayer via Public
>> <public at cabforum.org <mailto:public at cabforum.org>> wrote:
>>
>>      Mozilla is interested in adding EdDSA support to Firefox, but we
>>      don't currently have the work scheduled. If someone wants to submit
>>      a patch, we'd be happy to consider it. The tracking bug is
>>      https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1325335
>>
>>      - Wayne
>>
>>      On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 4:36 AM Rob Stradling via Public
>>      <public at cabforum.org <mailto:public at cabforum.org>> wrote:
>>
>>          Do any of our browser members have any plans to implement
>>          support for
>>          Ed25519/Ed448 public keys and certificate signatures [RFC8410]?
>>
>>          Are any members seeing any demand for this yet from their
>>          customers/users?
>>
>>          EdDSA has a number of advantages over ECDSA, so ISTM that the
>>          idea of
>>          permitting EdDSA in the BRs/EVGs is worthy of discussion.