Experimenting with Faster Elliptic Curves in Rust

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The talk discusses the results of experiments improving the efficiency of constant-time cryptographic algorithms implemented in Rust, with applications to faster Elliptic Curve Cryptography of practical interest.

Links and Resources Mentioned in this Session

• This is the fork of the bls12381 crate from ZCash implementing the ideas in the talk: https://github.com/dfaranha/bls12381-bench
• The subtle crate for constant-time programming: https://crates.io/crates/subtle
• The RELIC library in C+ASM implementing pairings over many curves: https://github.com/relic-toolkit/relic/
• If one is interested in learning more about the math behind pairings: https://www.craigcostello.com.au/s/PairingsForBeginners.pdf

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