l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > Christian Grothoff <groth...@in.tum.de> skribis: > >> On 03/14/2014 02:27 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> Guix is not tied to any particular public key crypto algorithm. >>> Currently we typically use RSA key, as you note, but we could just as >>> well tell libgcrypt to use something else, no? >> >> Yes, and my point is you should. I also do not believe in giving >> users choices in this respect, as they will invariably make bad >> choices. > > Heh, right. > >> For GNS-compatibility, you should use ECDSA on Curve25519 with RFC 6979 >> (deterministic ECDSA). > > OK, then we should make it the default. IIUC, this should be: > > (genkey (ecdsa (curve Ed25519) (flags rfc6979)))
Done: <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=1cbfce16691327bd309d6b03d8cbe3aef38e57bf>. Ludo’.
