Use ed25519 as default for ssh key pair generation

Use ed25519 algorithms as the default key pair generation algorithm
for the public key cryptography used by ssh in order to submit
patches via 'logerrit' script. If ed25519 is not available, RSA is
used.

List of supported algorithms in OpenSSH can be obtained by invoking
this command:

ssh -Q key

Change-Id: I12ebcbb62d0752c94b8c2d5225223ceb69b7fe79
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/122765
Reviewed-by: guilhem <guilhem@libreoffice.org>
Tested-by: Hossein <hossein@libreoffice.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/logerrit b/logerrit
index 630d5f4113e5..8432acde79f5 100755
--- a/logerrit
+++ b/logerrit
@@ -98,7 +98,18 @@ case "$1" in
 	    echo "Hit enter to generate an ssh key - you will need to enter a pass-phrase"
 	    echo
 	    read -r
-	    ssh-keygen -t rsa -f "$ssh_home/id_rsa" # default type as of OpenSSH 8.1
+        all_algo="$(ssh -Q key)"
+        if grep -q -x ssh-ed25519 <<< "$all_algo"
+        then
+            algo="ed25519"
+        elif grep -q -x ssh-rsa <<< "$all_algo"
+        then
+            algo="rsa"
+        else
+            echo "Could not find 'ssh-ed25519' or 'ssh-rsa' in the output from 'ssh -Q key'"
+            exit 1
+        fi
+        ssh-keygen -t "$algo" # Generate the key pair using the selected algorithm
 	fi
     if test -d "$ssh_home"; then
         # order algos based on the PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes option from OpenSSH 8.1