Hashing to Elliptic Curves

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IETF Data Tracker: draft-irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve

Internet-Draft: git repository

This document specifies a number of algorithms that may be used to encode or hash an arbitrary string to a point on an elliptic curve.

Reference Implementation

The purpose of this implementation is for generating test vectors and enabling cross compatibility with other implementations.

Warning

This implementation is not protected against any kind of attack, including side-channel attacks. It MUST NOT be used in production systems.

Limitations

• No specific architecture optimizations.
• No side-channel protection, see Warning section.

Development branch: master

Draft versions implemented:

• v05 (latest)

Compatible Implementations

• Sage
• Go

Internals

License

BSD 3-Clause License

Contact

Feel free to open a github issue for anything related to the implementation, otherwise e-mail authors of the draft.