2009-03-31 09:39:12 +00:00
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Pairing-based cryptography is a relatively young area of cryptography
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that revolves around a certain function with special properties.
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The PBC (Pairing-Based Cryptography) library is a free C library
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(released under the GNU Public License) built on the GMP library that
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performs the mathematical operations underlying pairing-based
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cryptosystems.
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The PBC library is designed to be the backbone of implementations of
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pairing-based cryptosystems, thus speed and portability are important
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goals. It provides routines such as elliptic curve generation, elliptic
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curve arithmetic and pairing computation. Thanks to the GMP library,
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despite being written in C, pairings times are reasonable.
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2013-03-28 16:28:59 +00:00
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WWW: http://crypto.stanford.edu/pbc/
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