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Discussion on: How to generate a secure SSH key pair?

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Christophe Colombier

Ok, I'm using ED25519 for more than a year now, but it's not widely adopted.

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Jim Zandueta

That’s good to know. I read somewhere that NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) speculates that RSA 2048 will be safe to use until 2030 (maybe +10 years for RSA 4096). By that time, we’ll probably see more ECDSA adoption. But yes using ECDSA today is future-proofing your systems security.

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Christophe Colombier

ED25519 is not exactly EDDSA, but I agree with you.

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Jim Zandueta

Oh my bad. I was thinking that ED25519 was a type of ECDSA instead of ECC. 😅