openssh unix dev - Sep 2023 - [patch] ssh-keygen(1): generate Ed25519 keys when invoked without arguments

On Sun, 3 Sep 2023, Jim Knoble wrote:
>Or is there a specific jurisdiction that claims that DJB's original
>copyright somehow overrides that?
The Berne Convention kinda does that (copyright is automatic), and
in most of Europe, authors cannot voluntarily relinquish copyright
so all works only enter into the Public Domain on the 1?? January
that follows their 70?? anniversary of death.

In contrast to works done by employees of the USA government (who
successfully defended their copyright in a European court, whereas
it?s in the PD in the USA automatically), however, with an explicit
dedication like this DJB has no grounds to sue anyone over it. Yet,
it?s, strictly speaking, code under copyright with no licence, which
kinda violates ?Integrate good code from any source with acceptable
licenses.? (http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html), plus, commercial
violation of copyright is a felony in some legislations and possibly
might not need the original author to sue.

IANAL, TINLA,
//mirabilos
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15:41?<Lo-lan-do:#fusionforge> Somebody write a testsuite for helloworld
:-)

What I'm hearing in this thread is: "a minority of people on planet
Earth have a problem with the open-source implementation of ED25519,
but instead of letting that minority choose to re-implement it when/if
they want to, the rest of the community needs to stall their progress
in improving security."

And isn't the ED25519 code is already there on their machine?  So isn't
that itself already a problem for that minority, regardless of whether
or not its used?

Either way, that minority can still use "-t rsa".

I very often see IT personnel and developers simply use the default
options for ssh-keygen.  They just don't care/don't know to care.
 Switching the default to ED25519 would bring the equivalent security
up from 112-bits to 128-bits (as 2048-bit RSA is equivalent to 112-bits 
of symmetric strength), which would be a nice improvement for the
community at large.

-- 
Joseph S. Testa II
Founder & Principal Security Consultant
Positron Security