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  1. Usign provides public key signatures using the ed25519 algorithm.
  2. The home page for the algorithm is http://ed25519.cr.yp.to/.
  3. It is described in the following paper:
  4. Daniel J. Bernstein, Niels Duif, Tanja Lange, Peter Schwabe, Bo-Yin Yang
  5. High-speed high-security signatures
  6. Journal of Cryptographic Engineering 2 (2012), 77-89
  7. 2011-09-26
  8. http://ed25519.cr.yp.to/ed25519-20110926.pdf
  9. Signatures and keys are compatible to OpenBSD's signify utility:
  10. http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/signify.1
  11. To build and install the package run
  12. mkdir build
  13. cd build
  14. cmake ..
  15. make
  16. sudo make install