Re: [pkcs11-comment] PKCS#11 support for Ed25519/Ed448/EdDSA/etc

[Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>]

On 2017-06-06 22:49, Francis Dupont wrote:
> First note that perhaps the IETF Curdle mailing list is more apropriate.
>
> I seems there is nothin in PKCS#11 for Ed25519. Ed448 and co curves,
> EdDSA sign/verify, etc. IMHO this can be fully or partially forked
> from the current EC framework (cur-v2.40 section 2.3 Elliptic Curve
> even IMHO only the namedCurve ecParameters could be shared...
>
> Is there any work about this?

That's a good question indeed!

If you look at
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8037
it doesn't appear to reuse EC but rather create a new core type called OKP.

I would consider that because that will map better to other systems including JOSE and CBOR.

Anders

> Thanks
>
> Francis.Dupont@fdupont.fr