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> I'm curious, what do you actually use it for?

FTA:

> These tools allow lib25519 to be easily used from shell scripts.

I've never used ed25519-cli, but not having to use a library is nice for someone who isn't a programmer.



The Venn diagram of "not a programmer" and "can safely use Ed25519" is two non-overlapping circles.


"this app needs me to generate a key and point to it in config" is plenty of overlap


If you just want a raw ed25519 private key then `head -c32 /dev/urandom` does the job. But usually you want a DER/PEM wrapper or similar, which the openssl cli tools handle nicely.


I don't consider myself a programmer and I can use Ed25519 safely. I do however understand computing fairly well.


I consider myself a programmer and ed25519-understander, but the idea of using it directly within a shell script terrifies me.


Simply combine this tool with `openssl enc` and your shell script is as secure as any shell script could be


Someone writing shell scripts is a programmer, for better or worse.




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