Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Creating stronger keys for OpenSSH and GPG

Create Ed25519 SSH keypair (supported in OpenSSH 6.5+). Parameters are as follows:

-o save in new format
-a 128 for 128 kdf (key derivation function) rounds
-t ed25519 for type of key
ssh-keygen -o -a 128 -t ed25519 -f .ssh/ed25519-$(date '+%m-%d-%Y') -C ed25519-$(date '+%m-%d-%Y')
Create Ed448-Goldilocks GPG master key and sub keys.
gpg --quick-generate-key ed448-master-key-$(date '+%m-%d-%Y') ed448 sign 0
gpg --list-keys --with-colons "ed448-master-key-08-03-2021" | grep fpr
gpg --quick-add-key "$fpr" cv448 encr 2y
gpg --quick-add-key "$fpr" ed448 auth 2y
gpg --quick-add-key "$fpr" ed448 sign 2y