[OTR-dev] RSA signatures again

[Taylor R Campbell]

   Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:29:36 -0400 (EDT)
   From: Paul Wouters <paul at cypherpunks.ca>

   On Sun, 25 Aug 2013, Jurre van Bergen wrote:

   >> ECC is still problematic patent-wise. It is getting better, but it is
   >> still not supported in current releases of Fedora and RHEL.
   >>
   > Are all the ECC ciphers disabled in Fedora/RHEL?

   Yes. All ECC is currently banned. While the push to allow ECC is getting
   stronger, we are not there yet.

Instead of ECDSA, why not Ed25519?  It is unencumbered by patents, and
as an added benefit over DSA and ECDSA, it doesn't rely on an entropy
source to make signatures.