Diego de Freitas Aranha wrote:
During my Msc, I developed an implementation of bilinear pairings over
elliptic curves using OpenSSL. In particular, an implementation of the Tate
pairing over curves defined on prime fields.
I am writing to ask you guys if the OpenSSL team has any interest on merging
this implementation in the main tree, considering that bilinear pairings are
a novel cryptographic primitive and that a lot of new applications such as
Identity-Based Cryptography and Certicateless Cryptography could be developed
using exclusively the OpenSSL library.
I think openssl is stronly oriented toward ssl and pki cryptography, and
today there is no standard scheme defined to integrate ID-based
cryptography within any of those. As long as it is so, it doesn't make
much sense to integrate support for this inside openssl.
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