[tor-dev] How do Ed25519 relay IDs look like?

Sebastian Hahn hahn.seb at web.de
Sat Aug 1 22:30:55 UTC 2020


Hi Damian,

> On 2. Aug 2020, at 00:04, Damian Johnson <atagar at torproject.org> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to use "ed25519 identity" or even just "identity" here going
>> forward.
>
> Gotcha. The name of 'identity' makes me wonder how this relates to
> relay fingerprints, which are the canonical identifier we use.
>
> Regardless, the more we can standardize the terminology we use the
> less confusing these fields will be.

The way I understand it is this: Relay fingerprints are based on the
RSA key, which will go away eventually. The canonical identifier will
be the identity. We should start that transition

Cheers
Sebastian


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