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1 root 1.1 NAME
2     Crypt::Ed25519 - bare-bones Ed25519 public key signing/verification
3     system
4    
5     SYNOPSIS
6     use Crypt::Ed25519; # no symbols exported
7    
8     # generate a public/private key pair once
9     ($pubkey, $privkey) = Crypt::Ed25519::generate_keypair;
10    
11     # sign messages
12     $signature = Crypt::Ed25519::sign $message, $pubkey, $privkey;
13    
14     # verify message
15     $valid = Crypt::Ed25519::verify $message, $pubkey, $signature;
16    
17     # verify, but croak on failure
18     Crypt::Ed25519::verify_croak $message, $pubkey, $signature;
19    
20     DESCRIPTION
21     This module implements Ed25519 public key generation, message signing
22     and verification. It is a pretty bare-bones implementation that
23     implements the standard Ed25519 variant with SHA512 hash.
24    
25     The security target for Ed25519 is to be equivalent to 3000 bit RSA or
26     AES-128.
27    
28     The advantages of Ed25519 over most other signaturer algorithms are:
29     small public/private key and signature sizes (<= 64 octets), good key
30     generation, signing and verification performance, no reliance on random
31     number generators for signing and by-design immunity against branch or
32     memory access pattern side-channel attacks.
33    
34     More detailed praise and other info can be found at
35     <http://ed25519.cr.yp.to/index.html>.
36    
37     IMPLEMENTATIOIN
38     This module currently uses "Nightcracker's Ed25519" implementation, but
39     the interface is kept implementation-agnostic to allow usage of other
40     implementations in the future.
41    
42     AUTHOR
43     Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
44     http://sfotware.schmorp.de/pkg/Crypt-Ed25519.html
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