Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm
EdDSA
- Date
- 2011 · confidence low
- Place
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Credited to
- Daniel J. Bernstein, Niels Duif, Tanja Lange, Peter Schwabe, and Bo-Yin Yang
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A digital signature scheme based on twisted Edwards curves, developed by a team led by Daniel J. Bernstein to be faster than existing schemes without sacrificing security.
What it led to
- was widely adopted in protocols such as SSH, TLS, and cryptocurrencies
- popularized the use of efficient elliptic curves in public-key cryptography
- served as the basis for implementations such as Ed25519