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..eeded to post public keys on the Internet in textual form. I pi



What happened was, I was fooling around with zero-knowledge proof ideas and needed to post public keys on the Internet in textual form. I picked 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdDSA: ed25519 keys (elliptic-curve, also known as EdDSA) so I asked the Internet “How do you turn ed25519 keys into short text strings?” The answer took quite a bit of work to find and, after I posted it, provoked a discussion about whether I was doing the right thing. So today’s question is: Should these things be encoded with the traditional PKIX/PEM serialization, or should developers just blast the key-bits into base64 and ship that?




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ongoing by Tim Bray · Algorithm Agility?: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/04/24/Algorithm-Agility