Re: [PATCH 0/7] crypto: add eddsa support for x509(Internet mail)

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>]

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 02:44:07PM +0000, herberthbli(李弘博) wrote:
> 在 2021/5/13 3:12, Eric Biggers 写道:
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> On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 10:04:07PM +0800, Hongbo Li wrote:
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> From: Hongbo Li <herberthbli@tencent.com><mailto:herberthbli@tencent.com>
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> This series of patches add support for x509 cert signed by eddsa,
> which is described in RFC8032 [1], currently ed25519 only.
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> It would be helpful to explain how this is related to the kernel's existing
> Curve25519 support.
> 
> - Eric
> 
> 
> Curve25519 is an elliptic curve used for key agreement(ECDH). It is a Montgomery curve.
> 
> Edwards25519 is a twisted Edwards curve and birationally equivalent to Curve25519, the
> birational maps are described in rfc7748 section 4.1.
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7748#section-4.1
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> 
> Ed25519 is a Digital Signature Algorithm over Edwards25519.
> 

Sure, but what does that mean in terms of code.  Can you reuse any of the code,
and if not why not?  I *think* the answer is no, but this is a common point of
confusion, so it would be helpful to properly explain this...

- Eric