TLS certificate sizes in Geminispace
colecmac at protonmail.com
colecmac at protonmail.com
Thu Jul 9 17:50:59 BST 2020
> What is the consensus on those self-signed ED25519 certificates? Good? Bad? Ugly?
I prefer using EC keys, which are still quite small (256 bits), but are more widely
supported. The OpenSSL command is a bit annoying, but I made a gemlog post about it
to make it easier.
gemini://makeworld.gq/gemlog/2020-07-06-openssl.gmi
The *key* part of it is:
-newkey ec -pkeyopt ec_paramgen_curve:prime256v1
Cheers,
makeworld
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