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RustCrypto: Elliptic Curve Traits

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General purpose Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) support, including types and traits for representing various elliptic curve forms, scalars, points, and public/secret keys composed thereof.

Documentation

Minimum Supported Rust Version

Requires Rust 1.65 or higher.

Minimum supported Rust version can be changed in the future, but it will be done with a minor version bump.

SemVer Policy

  • All on-by-default features of this library are covered by SemVer
  • MSRV is considered exempt from SemVer as noted above

License

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Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

Usage

This crate provides traits for describing elliptic curves, along with types which are generic over elliptic curves which can be used as the basis of curve-agnostic code.

It’s intended to be used with the following concrete elliptic curve implementations from the RustCrypto/elliptic-curves project:

  • bp256: brainpoolP256r1 and brainpoolP256t1
  • bp384: brainpoolP384r1 and brainpoolP384t1
  • k256: secp256k1 a.k.a. K-256
  • p224: NIST P-224 a.k.a. secp224r1
  • p256: NIST P-256 a.k.a secp256r1, prime256v1
  • p384: NIST P-384 a.k.a. secp384r1
  • p521: NIST P-521 a.k.a. secp521r1

The ecdsa crate provides a generic implementation of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm which can be used with any of the above crates, either via an external ECDSA implementation, or using native curve arithmetic where applicable.

Type conversions

The following chart illustrates the various conversions possible between the various types defined by this crate.

Type Conversion Map

serde support

When the serde feature of this crate is enabled, Serialize and Deserialize impls are provided for the following types:

Please see type-specific documentation for more information.

Modules

Structs

Traits

  • Elliptic curve.
  • Elliptic curve with an arithmetic implementation.
  • This trait represents an element of a field.
  • Trait for decoding/encoding Curve::Uint from/to FieldBytes using curve-specific rules.
  • This trait represents an element of a cryptographic group.
  • Marker trait for elliptic curves with prime order.
  • Prime order elliptic curve with projective arithmetic implementation.
  • This represents an element of a non-binary prime field.

Type Definitions