Indicate that ed25519-sha256 is no longer experimental

2018-05-18 02:48:42 -04:00
parent 85c4fe2adf
commit 3b28e86f15
2 changed files with 8 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Unreleased Version 0.8.0
      dependencies for dkimpy (LP: #1227526)
    - Fix typo in dknewky(1) for k= tag (Thanks to Andreas Schulze for
      reporting)
+    - Indicate that ed25519-sha256 is no longer experimental

 2018-02-17 Version 0.7.1
    - Update ed25519 tests, including using sample keys from RFC 8032 Section
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ extras_requires feature 'ARC' will add the extra dependencies needed for ARC.
   installed to satisfy the DNS module requirement if neither are installed.
 - argparse.  Standard library in python2.7 and later.
 - authres.  Needed for ARC.
- - PyNaCl.  Needed for use of experimental ed25519 capability.
+ - PyNaCl.  Needed for use of ed25519 capability.

 INSTALLATION

@@ -112,6 +112,12 @@ The dkimpy 0.7 implementation matches the -08 revision of the draft, except it
 uses Ed25519 vice Ed25519ph (a change to Ed25519 is planned for -09, but that
 had not been published yet as of the release of dkimpy 0.7).

+draft-ietf-dcrup-dkim-crypto-09 has been released and dkimpy 0.7 and later are
+aligned to its requirements.  As of 0.8, ed25519 need not be considered
+experimental.  The dkimpy implementation has successfully interoperated with
+three other implementations and the technical parameters for ed25519-sha256
+are defined and stable.
+
 Three helper programs are also supplied: dknewkey, dkimsign and
 dkimverify