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

[Rob Stradling]

[Adding servercert-wg@ at Ryan's suggestion]

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.

-- 
Rob Stradling
Senior Research & Development Scientist
Sectigo Limited