[Bug 1780807] Re: Please provide ED25519 support in 18.04 OpenSSL

[Alyssa Rowan]

Should add to this: 1.1.1 is the LTS version of OpenSSL; 1.1.0 is no
longer supported upstream. It's not going to be practical to backport
anything to 1.1.0.

1.1.1 has no API breakage beyond 1.1.0 (which you already did) and you
should upgrade this during bionic. 1.1.1 also adds TLSv1.3.

If you don't, a LOT of people are going to be running 18.04 with
frankenpatches.

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Title:
  Please provide ED25519 support in 18.04 OpenSSL

Status in openssl package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Current libss1.1 version in Bionic is 1.1.0g-2ubuntu4.1 and lacking
  support for the ED25519 signature algorithm.

  As ED25519 is quickly gaining traction as most demanded and preferred
  elliptic curve algorithm, it would be a substantial issue not to have
  any support for it in the remaining lifetime of Ubuntu LTS released
  most recently.

  OpenSSL is introducing ED25519 with their 1.1.1 release, which is
  currently in beta (openssl-1.1.1-pre8 as of today). I suggest to
  upgrade Bionic libss1.1 to OpenSSL 1.1.1, once finally released by
  OpenSSL.

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