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