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change the default key type to Ed25519 #1576

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Cryptographically, there's no reason to prefer RSA over Ed25519 (quite the contrary, actually!).

The peer ID spec says that all implementations MUST support Ed25519, so this should be a safe change to make.

@vyzo @Stebalien Are you aware of any backwards compatibility issues this might cause (that wouldn't be better handled by the application that requires backwards compatibility)?

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Interestingly, this change is driving the AutoRelay TestSingleRelay crazy. This test is already the most flaky test by a large margin, and will get fixed once I tackle #1569. I suggest delaying the merge of this PR until that PR has landed, and CI is happy.

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vyzo commented May 28, 2022

I think this is a change we should have made a while ago, RSA keys are a pita.

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We made this switch quite a while ago in go-ipfs.

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