algorand / bls_sigs_ref

Algorand's reference implementation of bls signature scheme

BLS signatures draft standard, reference implementations

This repository contains reference implementations of the BLS signatures draft standard.

Note: this code is WIP. It has not been audited for security, should not be assumed to be constant-time or otherwise secure, and the details may change at any time as the BLS standard evolves.

This code started as a fork of bls12-381_hash. (That repository also contains an implementation in C.)

implementation status

Please see the READMEs in each subdirectory for information on particular implementations. In brief,

• The Python and Rust implementations include all functionality currently specified in the standard, plus serialization and deserialization based on the ZCash spec.

• The Sage implementation does not implement verification, only hashing, signing, and proof-of-possession generation.

• The Python implementation uses the Python finite field implementation from Chia's BLS library.

• The Rust implementation is based on the Rust pairing_fork library.

Authors

Riad S. Wahby, Zhenfei Zhang

License

This software is (C) 2019 Algorand, Inc.

Licensed under the MIT license (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

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