Wait, do you want to hash messages to the curve, or just be able to hash curve points? The former is kind of a niche feature, though you could implement it yourself if the library doesn't support it.
Sent from my phone. Please excuse brevity and typos. > On Jun 18, 2015, at 10:38, Frank Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > Yes. Sorry, my goal right now is that I have a key revocation scheme that I > want to implement, involving elliptic curve addition, subtraction, and scalar > multiplication (as well as hashing messages to the curve). I would like > reasonable performance (so C does seem good) because I'm benchmarking it > against AES. However, I'm willing to trade off some performance for ease of > use. > > TweetNacl seems to be designed primarily for ECDH and EC signatures rather > than a general purpose elliptic curve library. I'm exploring alternatives. > > Frank > >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Thomas DuBuisson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> Frank, >> A lot of recommendations are pouring in about C and Java libraries, on >> top of which I'm tempted to recommend my own in Cryptol or one of the >> Sage version out there, but none of us have heard about your actual >> goal and needs. Could you say more about how this code will be used >> and what you hope to achieve? >> >> Thomas >> >> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Frank Wang <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I am working on a research project at MIT, and I need to use elliptic >> > curves >> > (or a group where DDH is hard, but elliptic curves seem like the best way >> > to >> > go) to implement a cryptographic scheme. I've been trying to search for >> > general Curve25519 and Ed25519 libraries where I can just do add and scalar >> > multiply as well as hash messages to points. The best library I've come >> > across so far is tweetnacl, which has the add and scalar multiply operation >> > for Ed25519, but it's a bit difficult to use, and I end up modifying the >> > library to do subtraction of points. >> > >> > I have yet to find a good library that allows me to just do operations on >> > Ed25519 or Curve25519. Does such a library exist? If not, any tips on what >> > I >> > should do? Should I just use another curve library that is better >> > supported? >> > If so, any suggestions? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Frank >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Curves mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/curves >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Curves mailing list > [email protected] > https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/curves
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