When EdDSA came up the last time, I remember an opinion was that it would be 
better to save the work to post quantum algorithms. Even though Ed25519 is a 
nice algorithm, I kind of agree with that. Moving to PQC will be more work that 
needs to be done, while Ed25519 seems like a nice-to-have for TLS server 
certificates? Does eDelivery really need publicly trusted Web PKI certificates?

Regards,
Tomas


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FYI. TBD next week at the ETSI ESI meeting.



Title: Proposed CR#7 on TS 119 312: Introduce EdDSA incl. its variants (Ed448 
and Ed25519)



Source: European Commission

Abstract: ETSI TS 119 312 provides guidance on selection of cryptographic 
suites with particular emphasis on interoperability. The Edwards-Curve Digital 
Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) is a state-of-the-art algorithm for electronic 
signatures. It is recommended by experts in cryptography and information 
security and adopted in many Internet security applications and specifications. 
Unfortunately, the currently published version of TS 119 312 does not reference 
EdDSA. This change request proposes to add EdDSA as a recommended digital 
signature algorithm to TS 119 312. The European Commission’s eDelivery Building 
Block is updating its eDelivery AS4 guidelines and would like to use EdDSA as 
digital signature algorithm in the updated version. Addition of EdDSA to TS 119 
312 would contribute to the continued broad adoption of eDelivery AS4 as an 
interoperable, open standards-based eDelivery solution based on 
state-of-the-art security.



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Hi Q,

I'm checking with the crypto team here at Mozilla and will let you know from 
our perspective.

Thanks,

Ben



On Sat, Jun 8, 2024 at 4:39 AM Q Misell via Servercert-wg 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Hi all,



At the Tor meeting a few weeks ago I had some discussions with people asking 
why Ed25519 certificates are not allowed under the BR (§ 6.1.5). As far as I 
can tell there isn't much of a reason not to allow Ed25519 certs (if a CA 
wishes to support them ofc) and there were a few scenarios presented to me 
where Ed25519 certs would be useful in the context of Tor, which already makes 
heavy usage of Ed25519 keys.



Would there be motivation to change the rules to allow Ed25519 certs, or is 
there some reason I'm missing as to why they're not allowed?



Thanks,

Q Misell

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