[tor-dev] Tor's default behavior for ed25519 identities

[Nick Mathewson]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 8:24 PM, s7r <s7r at sky-ip.org> wrote:
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> On 8/4/2015 5:42 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote:
>> Hi, s7r!
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>> This is an impressive writeup; thanks!
>>
>> One thing that makes it hard for me to follow this document is
>> that I'm not sure which parts are describing how things work _now_,
>> and which parts describe how things _should_ work.  Would it be
>> possible to split up descriptions of current/revised behavior, and
>> mark each?
>>
>> many thanks,
>>
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> Hi Nick,
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> My pleasure. Done and written. It looks long but I hope it reads fast
> and makes sense. I know it's a PITA to fix things by reading about
> them on email, so do let me know what are the priorities and how
> should I open tickets on trac to be cleaner and easier for you (a
> single big ticket? more tickets for each case to the master ticket
> where we discuss the Ed25519 FAQ?).

Thanks; this is incredibly helpful!

I've started a branch to do a test case to demonstrate all these bugs
; it's called "ed25519_keygen" in my public repository.  It also adds
a couple more features to '--keygen'.  It does cases 2...4 so far; I
want to make it cover 5..10.

Once I've got it demonstrating all the cases, I'll try to clean it up
and start hammering down the bugs.

best wishes,
-- 
Nick