This is the name we adopted for a similar feature in @RustCrypto.
It's a bit less jargony and also leaves the door open in the future to
other types of precomputed tables.
* Add `basepoint-tables` crate feature
Feature-gates the inclusion of basepoint tables under a
`basepoint-tables` feature, with the goal of reducing code size for e.g.
embedded applications.
* Add `mul_base` method to `EdwardsPoint` and `RistrettoPoint`
Provides fixed-base scalar multiplication which optionally uses
precomputed basepoint tables when the `basepoint-tables` feature is
enabled, providing 4X better performance.
Falls back on variable-base scalar multiplication in the event the
feature is disabled.
Co-authored-by: Michael Rosenberg <michael@mrosenberg.pub>
* Make basepoint table constants static references
This ensures they have a fixed address and aren't duplicated across
compilation units.
Since they were already always borrowed, this changes the static values
to be `&'static` addresses to ensure they're always borrowed rather than
potentially copied.
* rustfmt
The recommendation to set this has been removed from the Rust API
guidelines:
https://github.com/rust-lang/api-guidelines/pull/230
It used to be used by docs.rs, but docs.rs now unconditionally sets the
`--extern-html-root-url` parameter of rustdoc which overrides it, making
it no longer needed and superfluous.
Previously `alloc` implicitly activated `zeroize` via `zeroize/alloc`.
This commit switches to weak feature activation as added in Rust 1.60,
only activating `zeroize/alloc` if the `zeroize` dependency is
explicitly activated (which it is by default).
* Make `zeroize` an optional dependency
The `zeroize` crate provides a defense against memory read oracles which
typically arise from memory unsafety.
Pure Rust programs may not benefit from `zeroize`, and in certain cases
the unsafe code used by `zeroize` may be more concerning.
This commit makes `zeroize` into an optional feature so users may elect
to disable it if they so desire.
* Added zeroize feature flag to README
Co-authored-by: Michael Rosenberg <michael@mrosenberg.pub>
For the field element types `FieldElement` and `Scalar`, use inherent
constants instead of (non-const) functions to return these constant
values.
It's likely the original functions predate support for inherent
constants, but now that they're available, they're a better fit for
these sort of constant values.
This is a convenience/marker trait for types which impl `CryptoRng` +
`RngCore` which makes the type signatures a little more readable.
It was introduced in `rand_core` v0.6.4 (now pinned as the minimum
version)
Crate features are intended to be additive, whereas only 1-of-N possible
backends can be selected.
Features can also be activated by transitive dependencies, which leads
to a problem of different dependences selecting conflicting backends.
Using `--cfg` instead moves all backend selection control to the
toplevel executable.
This commit switches to the following RUSTFLAGS to enable backends:
- `--cfg curve25519_dalek_backend="fiat"`: uses `fiat-crypto`
- `--cfg curve25519_dalek_backend="simd"`: uses nightly-only SIMD
Previously `cargo test --no-default-features` would succeed but with
warnings. This commit fixes all of those warnings and tests
`--no-default-features` in CI to ensure that in perpetuity.
As proposed in #442 this makes `digest` an
optional feature that is not covered by the
SemVer public API stability guarantees.
Co-authored-by: Michael Rosenberg <michael@mrosenberg.pub>
As proposed in #442 this makes `rand_core` an
optional feature that is not covered by the
SemVer public API stability guarantees.
Co-authored-by: Michael Rosenberg <michael@mrosenberg.pub>
As suggested in #453 it is sometimes feasible to
select the backend bits via an override.
This change provides `cfg(curve25519_dalek_bits)`
to override the bits used in serial or fiat target backend.
* Deprecated `EdwardsPoint::hash_from_bytes` and renamed to
`EdwardsPoint::nonspec_map_to_curve`
* Added KAT test vectors for `RistrettoPoint::from_uniform_bytes`
As proposed in #414, this commit changes the backend selection approach,
introspecting `target_pointer_width` to select `u32_backend` vs
`u64_backend` (or `fiat_u32_backend`/`fiat_u64_backend` if the
`fiat_backend` feature is enabled).
This helps eliminate the use of non-additive features, and also the
rather confusing errors that happen if multiple backends are selected
(i.e. thousands of lines of rustc errors).
The selection logic checks if `target_pointer_width = "64"` and uses the
64-bit backend, or falls back to the 32-bit backend otherwise. This
means the crate will always have a valid backend regardless of the
pointer width, although there may be odd edge cases for exotic platforms
which would optimally use the 64-bit backend but have a non-"64" target
pointer width for whatever reason. We can handle those cases as they
come up.
As proposed in #426 this commit changes to include README.md into
the crate documentation instead of maintaining a carbon copy in
the code.
This helps to keep the documentation in a single place without
duplicating the documentation in multiple places leading to less
errors and out of date documentation.
