I also agree, given OpenSSL Version 1.1.0 will be supported until one year after the release of 1.1.1 (i.e 2019/09/11), migrating to 1.1.1 LTS would be the best course of action for 18.04 LTS (EOL 2023/04):
https://www.openssl.org/policies/releasestrat.html Quoting from yesterday's 1.1.1 release announcement: > Since 1.1.1 is our new LTS release we are strongly advising all users to upgrade as soon as possible. For most applications this should be straight forward if they are written to work with OpenSSL 1.1.0. Since OpenSSL 1.1.0 is not an LTS release it will start receiving security fixes only with immediate affect as per our previous announcement and as published in our release strategy. It will cease receiving all support in one years time. https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2018/09/11/release111 Perhaps this warrants its own new ticket? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to openssl in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780807 Title: Please provide ED25519 support in 18.04 OpenSSL Status in openssl package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Current libss1.1 version in Bionic is 1.1.0g-2ubuntu4.1 and lacking support for the ED25519 signature algorithm. As ED25519 is quickly gaining traction as most demanded and preferred elliptic curve algorithm, it would be a substantial issue not to have any support for it in the remaining lifetime of Ubuntu LTS released most recently. OpenSSL is introducing ED25519 with their 1.1.1 release, which is currently in beta (openssl-1.1.1-pre8 as of today). I suggest to upgrade Bionic libss1.1 to OpenSSL 1.1.1, once finally released by OpenSSL. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssl/+bug/1780807/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
