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diff --git a/plugin/auth_ed25519/README b/plugin/auth_ed25519/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..aa0263428f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugin/auth_ed25519/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +This plugin uses public domain ed25519 code +by Daniel J. Bernstein, Niels Duif, Tanja Lange, Peter Schwabe, Bo-Yin Yang. + +It is "ref10" implementation from the SUPERCOP: +https://bench.cr.yp.to/supercop.html + +OpenSSH also uses ed25519 from SUPERCOP, but "ref" implementation. + +There are four ed25519 implementations in SUPERCOP, ref10 is faster then ref, +and there are two that are even faster, written in amd64 assembler. +Benchmarks are here: https://bench.cr.yp.to/impl-sign/ed25519.html + |