[Bug 1780807] Re: Please provide ED25519 support in 18.04 OpenSSL

[ruffsl]

I also agree, given OpenSSL Version 1.1.0 will be supported until one
year after the release of 1.1.1 (i.e 2019/09/11), migrating to 1.1.1 LTS
would be the best course of action for 18.04 LTS (EOL 2023/04):

https://www.openssl.org/policies/releasestrat.html

Quoting from yesterday's 1.1.1 release announcement:

> Since 1.1.1 is our new LTS release we are strongly advising all users
to upgrade as soon as possible. For most applications this should be
straight forward if they are written to work with OpenSSL 1.1.0. Since
OpenSSL 1.1.0 is not an LTS release it will start receiving security
fixes only with immediate affect as per our previous announcement and as
published in our release strategy. It will cease receiving all support
in one years time.

https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2018/09/11/release111

Perhaps this warrants its own new ticket?

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Title:
  Please provide ED25519 support in 18.04 OpenSSL

Status in openssl package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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 released
  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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