JEP Proposal: EdDSA Signatures

[Anders Rundgren]

On 2018-05-01 17:21, Adam Petcher wrote:
> The work for X25519/X448 is wrapping up[1], so I have started thinking
> about EdDSA. Please review the draft JEP[2] for EdDSA, and let me know
> what you think. I'm not really sure what priority to give the EdDSA
> work, and it is optional in TLS 1.3. So if you have a particular need or
> desire for EdDSA in the JDK, please let me know so I can figure what
> priority to give this task. Also let me know which variants of EdDSA you
> want---TLS only uses the "pure" variant, and I'm trying to decide
> whether it it is worthwhile to also implement the other variants.

https://ianix.com/pub/ed25519-deployment.html may be of some interest.

> 
> Of course, I'm also interested in technical feedback on the JEP. A lot
> of the goals and design are similar to the X25519/X448 JEP.
> 
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/324
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8199231
>