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Ironically I lately had a payment service provider handing me newly generated ecdsa ssh keys where ed25519 should be supported to the best of my knowledge. And fluxcd moved from rsa to ecdsa by https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2/releases/tag/v0.21.0.

Kinda strange people are moving on to EC cipher - which is good, but to the cipher which has the NIST/NSA smell.

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I have upgraded all of my ECDSA host keys to the 521 curve, which has some praise from DJB, unlike the 256 and 384 curves (ssh-keygen -b #: "For ECDSA keys, the -b flag determines the key length by selecting from one of three elliptic curve sizes: 256, 384 or 521 bits").

http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html

"To be fair I should mention that there's one standard NIST curve using a nice prime, namely 2^521 - 1; but the sheer size of this prime makes it much slower than NIST P-256."

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