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RSA vs ECDSA vs ED25519
Wondering why ECDSA is not supported. ED25519 is not supported by FIPS-140-20 and so FIPS enabled hosts cannot use ED25519. I was under the impression, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but RSA 2...
floris_1P
1Password Team
1Password TeamGreat question. We still consider RSA 3072-bit and 4096-bit keys to be strong keys. The biggest downside though is that they're noticeably slow.
Why we left out ECDSA is because it doesn't provide additional benefits over Ed25519, other than legacy reasons, which are better covered by RSA.
With that said, we haven't fully ruled out ECDSA yet. This is still on the list, but not prioritized at the moment.
