From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Christian Grothoff <grothoff@in.tum.de>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, gnunet-developers@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix - GNUnet binary ditribution roadmap
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:13:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738ikvjui.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <532312D1.8010809@in.tum.de> (Christian Grothoff's message of "Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:31:45 +0100")
Christian Grothoff <grothoff@in.tum.de> skribis:
> On 03/14/2014 02:27 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Guix is not tied to any particular public key crypto algorithm.
>> Currently we typically use RSA key, as you note, but we could just as
>> well tell libgcrypt to use something else, no?
>
> Yes, and my point is you should. I also do not believe in giving
> users choices in this respect, as they will invariably make bad
> choices.
Heh, right.
> For GNS-compatibility, you should use ECDSA on Curve25519 with RFC 6979
> (deterministic ECDSA).
OK, then we should make it the default. IIUC, this should be:
(genkey (ecdsa (curve Ed25519) (flags rfc6979)))
Thanks for your feedback!
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2014-03-12 18:57 ` Guix - GNUnet binary ditribution roadmap Sree Harsha Totakura
2014-03-12 20:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-12 22:53 ` [GNUnet-developers] " Sree Harsha Totakura
2014-03-12 23:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-13 8:23 ` Sree Harsha Totakura
2014-03-13 9:46 ` Christian Grothoff
2014-03-13 23:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-13 23:58 ` Christian Grothoff
2014-03-14 13:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-14 14:31 ` Christian Grothoff
2014-03-14 16:13 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-03-18 11:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-13 14:06 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-03-13 14:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-13 14:30 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-03-13 14:44 ` Christian Grothoff
2014-03-18 19:48 ` Pierre-Antoine Rault
2014-03-18 20:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
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