ED25519 key generation impossible

[tfoutrein]

• Version:
  {"version":"0.46.0","repo":7,"commit":""}

• Platform:
  Linux DESKTOP-21GI717 4.4.0-20150-Microsoft Read file error on Windows #1000-Microsoft Thu Jun 12 17:34:00 PST 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux

• Subsystem:
  KEY

Severity:

High

Description:

• What I did
  const key1 = await this._node.key.gen('tata', {type : 'ed25519'})
• What happened
  TypeError: keypair.export is not a function
• What you expected to happen
  get the key, if i try without the type , there is no problem

Steps to reproduce the error:

just do const key1 = await this._node.key.gen('tata', {type : 'ed25519'})

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[achingbrain]

js-ipfs doesn't support ED25519 keys yet, though support is going to land pretty soon.

Duplicate of #2553 - please see libp2p issues linked from there for further reading and timelines.