Creating an X25519 client certificate

[Robert Moskowitz]

I have created my X25519 pub/priv keypair with:

openssl genpkey -algorithm X25519\
     -out $dir/private/$clientemail-X.key.$format

And displays properly with:

openssl pkey -in $dir/private/$clientemail-X.key.$format -text -noout


So now to make the csr with:

openssl req -config $dir/openssl-intermediate.cnf\
     -key $dir/private/$clientemail-X.key.$format \
     -subj "$DN" -new -out $dir/csr/$clientemail-X.csr.$format

which is what I used for ED25519 client certs.  But I get an error:

140487683954496:error:0608D096:digital envelope 
routines:EVP_PKEY_sign_init:operation not supported for this 
keytype:crypto/evp/pmeth_fn.c:39:

I can't figure out from my config file why this error.  and googling the 
error has not helped.  yet.

Can someone point me to what I am missing?

Oh, and I am ASSuMEing that a CA cert of ED25519 signs an X25519 client 
cert.  Haven't found instructions on this, but it seems reasonable...

thanks