Re: [tor-dev] [draft] Proposal 220: Migrate server identity keys to Ed25519

13.08.2013, Nick Mathewson:

2.3.1. Checking descriptor signatures.

Current versions of Tor will handle these new formats by ignoring the new fields, and not checking any ed25519 information.

New version of Tor will have a flag that tells them whether to check ed25519 information. When it is set, they must check:

  * All RSA information and signatures that Tor implementations
    currently check.
  * If the identity-ed25519 line is present, it must be well-formed,
    and the certificate must be well-formed and correctly signed,
    and there must be a valid.

Hi,

I'm not getting the last part of this paragraph.

"... and there must be a valid." signature, something?

(I'm not done with reading it, but before I forget to mention it)

Regards, Sebastian G.