Make ed25519 keys generated by Packer serialize in the format usable by ssh#120
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Hey @nikolaymatrosov,
Great job on the research (and providing the links to the docs/specs, that's very helpful in understanding the change) and the implementation. The code looks good to me, I think we can merge this right away.
Thank you very much for this contribution!
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As said in the method comment, the method produced the key in a format incompatible with ssh. As a result, the key Packer SDK created resulted in the error
Load key "id_ed25519": invalid format.I found the format description and fixed the generation algorithm to fix this problem:
As
ed25519keys are getting more popular, I think it would be helpful to have them serialize correctly.