Fraunhofer-AISEC / libbbs

C implementation of the IRTF BBS Internet Draft

libbbs

Specification-compliant and performant implementation of the bbs signature scheme.

Provides a library libbbs implementing the BLS12381-SHA-256 and BLS12-381-SHAKE-256 cipher suite.

Setup

Prerequisites

Dependencies:

• gmp
• xsltproc (indirect dependency of XKCP Keccak hash library)
• cmake (build only)

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

Installation

Within build:

make install

Test

Within build:

make
make test

Benchmark

Within build:

make bench

Benchmark on Apple M1 Pro 2021 16GB:

• 2 messages each of size 64 bytes
• Disclosing first message only
• Runtime averaged over 1000 iterations without warmup

Function	SHA256 (ms)	SHAKE256 (ms)
key generation (SK & PK)	0,174	0,172
sign	1,995	1,888
verify	3,877	3,829
proof generation	3,289	3,220
proof verification	4,532	4,482