[cabfpub] Interest in Ed25519 and/or Ed448?

Wayne Thayer wthayer at mozilla.com
Wed Dec 19 15:22:29 UTC 2018


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> 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.
>
> --
> Rob Stradling
> Senior Research & Development Scientist
> Sectigo Limited
>
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