BSD Ports

net/nats-nkeys 0.4.7_8 DragonFly

Public-key signature system based on Ed25519 for the NATS ecosystem

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
APACHE20
Categories
net
Package size
747.7 KiB, 1940.9 KiB installed

Description

NATS is an open-source, cloud-native messaging system.

This is a command line utility to manage NATS Ed25519 keys.

The NATS ecosystem will be moving to Ed25519 keys for identity, authentication and authorization for entities such as Accounts, Users, Servers and Clusters.

Ed25519 is fast and resistant to side channel attacks. Generation of a seed key is all that is needed to be stored and kept safe, as the seed can generate both the public and private keys.

The NATS system will utilize Ed25519 keys, meaning that NATS systems will never store or even have access to any private keys. Authentication will utilize a random challenge response mechanism.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 0.4.16, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlynet/nats-nkeys0.4.7_8none known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDnet/nats-nkeys0.4.16_8 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-10-20
HardenedBSDnet/nats-nkeys0.4.16_6 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDnet/nats-nkeys0.4.16_6 newestno data-[email protected]-

Install

Binary package:

pkg install nats-nkeys

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/net/nats-nkeys && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.