[openssl-project] EdDSA and "default_md"?

[Matt Caswell]

On 08/08/18 21:22, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> Don't know whether everyone here also reads openssl-users, so to recap,
> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> reports considerable frustration
> as a result of "default_md = sha256" being incompatible with Ed25519
> (and Ed448).  He's working around this with "-md null" sprinkled about
> liberally, but it is not especially intutive.
> 
> What should we do here?  Perhaps we need a "default_md = default" that
> picks a sensible default for each key algorithm (sha256 typically,
> but "null" for EdDSA)?  Or ignore "default_md" with EdDSA, or ???
> 

Probably we should just ignore default_md for EdDSA.

Matt