Comment on Ed25519-CLI – command-line interface for the Ed25519 signature system (2024)parentComments−quotemstr8moYeah, the OpenSSL CLI sucks. So what's to be done?Sure, we can build a 25519-specific tool with a less footgun-y interface. Fine, whatever, for that one use case.Or we can build an alternative OpenSSL CLI that explodes OpenSSL and its numerous useful features in a general way and helps fix lots of use cases.−tptacek8moNothing is to be done. Just don't use the OpenSSL CLI. It's a deeply cursed concept for a tool!−quotemstr8moA command like cryptography swiss army knife useful though. If not openssl, then what?−tptacek8moIt's useful as a toy and a learning tool, but for nothing else. For those two things, OpenSSL is fine as it is.
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Yeah, the OpenSSL CLI sucks. So what's to be done?
Sure, we can build a 25519-specific tool with a less footgun-y interface. Fine, whatever, for that one use case.
Or we can build an alternative OpenSSL CLI that explodes OpenSSL and its numerous useful features in a general way and helps fix lots of use cases.
Nothing is to be done. Just don't use the OpenSSL CLI. It's a deeply cursed concept for a tool!
A command like cryptography swiss army knife useful though. If not openssl, then what?
It's useful as a toy and a learning tool, but for nothing else. For those two things, OpenSSL is fine as it is.