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From: Steffan Karger <steffan.karger@...1435...>
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:53:23 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Allow external EC key through
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Hi,

On 17-01-18 05:24, Selva Nair wrote:
> Also I'm toying with the idea of renaming ecdsa-sig/ECDSA-SIGN by
> pkey-sig/PKEY-SIGN so that eventually we may be able to use it for
> all types of keys and retire rsa-sig. Any thoughts on that?

This was my first though when looking at these patches.  Haven't looked
at the code yet, but functionally I think that's the way to go.  Even if
it were that Ed25519 / Ed448 sigs are technically not ECDSA sigs.

I'll look into these great patches more later.

-Steffan