Loup-Vaillant wrote this on Lobste.rs:
Personally I would actively avoid the check,
Hmm. What a weird thing to say.
Loup-Vaillant wrote a cryptography library called Monocypher, which famously had an EdDSA vulnerability mostly caused by their insistence on rolling their own custom EdDSA variant to avoid SHA512.
"I wonder how Monocypher holds up in 2026?"
Who said that? Well, anyway:
https://github.com/LoupVaillant/Monocypher/issues/285
Personally I would actively avoid the check,
Hmm. What a weird thing to say.
Loup-Vaillant wrote a cryptography library called Monocypher, which famously had an EdDSA vulnerability mostly caused by their insistence on rolling their own custom EdDSA variant to avoid SHA512.
"I wonder how Monocypher holds up in 2026?"
Who said that? Well, anyway:
https://github.com/LoupVaillant/Monocypher/issues/285
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