[er0k]

I thought this was a joke, but they really don't: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/virtual...

what the fuck? What is Microsoft doing? ed25519 was added to openssh, what, 7 years ago? This boggles my mind.

[Macha]

Just about exactly 10 years ago, actually: https://lwn.net/Articles/590870/

[adastra22]

It actually violates some federal contracting rules to support non-NIST keys. Maybe they don’t bother for that reason?

[dharmab]

Azure's gov cloud is a separate API.

[adastra22]

With a lot of shared software. Need a strong reason to introduce differences which if accidentally misconfigured could have large contract liabilities.

[pbhjpbhj]

Maybe they're supporting TLAs abilities to crack Microsoft users when 'necessary'?