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jmgrosen on Sept 25, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Keybase's New Key Model

> my Keybase key is an ed25519 key

Could you explain how you did this? I was under the impression it was impossible because Curve25519 encryption isn't implemented yet.

subway on Sept 25, 2015 [–]

The offline key isn't used for encryption, only signing. In this case, signing the subkeys, which are used for encryption (or auth, or signing).

Really not all that different from past days of having a dsa key with an el gamal subkey for encryption.

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