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		PunchyHamster 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ed25519-CLI – command-line interface for the Ed255... "this app needs me to generate a key and point to it in config" is plenty of overlap

Retr0id 3 months ago [–]

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.

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