[Bug 1780807] [NEW] Please provide ED25519 support in 18.04 OpenSSL

[Michael Steffens]

Public bug reported:

Current libss1.1 version in Bionic is 1.1.0g-2ubuntu4.1 and lacking
support for the ED25519 signature algorithm.

As ED25519 is quickly gaining traction as most demanded and preferred
elliptic curve algorithm, it would be a substantial issue not to have
any support for it in the remaining lifetime of Ubuntu LTS releases most
recently.

OpenSSL is introducing ED25519 with their 1.1.1 release, which is
currently in beta (openssl-1.1.1-pre8 as of today). I suggest to upgrade
Bionic libss1.1 to OpenSSL 1.1.1, once finally released by OpenSSL.

** Affects: openssl (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Please provide ED25519 support in 18.04 OpenSSL

Status in openssl package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Current libss1.1 version in Bionic is 1.1.0g-2ubuntu4.1 and lacking
  support for the ED25519 signature algorithm.

  As ED25519 is quickly gaining traction as most demanded and preferred
  elliptic curve algorithm, it would be a substantial issue not to have
  any support for it in the remaining lifetime of Ubuntu LTS releases
  most recently.

  OpenSSL is introducing ED25519 with their 1.1.1 release, which is
  currently in beta (openssl-1.1.1-pre8 as of today). I suggest to
  upgrade Bionic libss1.1 to OpenSSL 1.1.1, once finally released by
  OpenSSL.

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