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>
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>
* Restructure README and CHANGELOG
* Explain semver policy
* Specify feature flags and backends more explicitly
* Remove nightly from the CI bc that didn't belong there
* Add @pinkforest to thankyou list
Co-authored-by: pinkforest <36498018+pinkforest@users.noreply.github.com>
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.
This is too late for the 0.19.0 release (I missed it because I grepped for
"0.18.", and the version in the README doesn't specify a minor version), but it
will now be in line with the other version strings.
When we put out the 1.0.0-pre.0 release we can change both together (our docs
already say we've released it, because we inserted an extra version, oops).
Each backend can now be selected by an individual feature:
- `u32_backend` for `backend::u32`;
- `u64_backend` for `backend::u64`;
- `avx2_backend` for `backend::avx2`;
The `u64_backend` is selected by default, since most people use X64 and we have
no way to select based on target (see discussion in #126). However, these
changes mean that it is possible to select the backend explicitly, and if we
had the ability to select target-default features, we could do so easily.
Since Criterion can only benchmark public API, these changes just drop
all internal benchmarks (e.g., benchmarks for field operations). But
those are usually microbenchmarks whose meaning is kind of questionable
anyways, so I don't think this is a big loss.
The `bench` feature disappears, since Criterion works on stable Rust.
