Support for the Edwards curves - ed25519

[banjo]

Recently, TinCanTech replied to a topic of mine saying that OpenVPN does not, at the moment, support the Edwards curves. So:

1. There appears to be some suspicion regarding NIST-supplied curves
2. The Edwards curves are apparently more secure and more difficult to crack
3. OpenSSL has supported them for more than a year
4. OpenVPN does not support them

When will OpenVPN support the Edwards curve, ed25519?

Given that I use OpenSSL with OpenVPN, a possibly self-serving observation is that I am OK with initially only providing support via OpenSSL.

[narun4sk]

Hey ho,

I've got to this page by researching the ed25519 support in OpenVPN and I second the OP. IMHO all 4 points are very valid and there were no updates from the OpenVPN devs for nearly a year

[TinCanTech]

Code: Select all

openvpn --show-curves

Also, https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa/blo ... /ChangeLog