This repository offers a very simple Go binding for the ascon-80pq C implementation (aead_encrypt/decrypt operations). Ascon is one finalist of the Lightweight Cryptography standardization process conducted by NIST (LWC).
In a single line: git clone --recursive https://github.com/AAGiron/ascon80pq-go-binding
Or use cd ascon80pq-go-binding && git submodule update --init --recursive after cloning.
In order to compile the required implementations for the binding, use:
cd ascon-c
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DALG_LIST="ascon80pq" -DIMPL_LIST="ref" -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON
cmake --build .
Install it (and export) to LD_LIBRARY_PATH (e.g., sudo cp *.so /usr/local/lib/ if that is your path).
After cloning and building Ascon (above), go back cd ../../ to main directory and then test the binding using go run test.go.
We also provide a benchmark in an attempt to evaluate the cost of such a binding (C to Go). It is almost identical to getcycles.c, with small modifications for building the benchmark. (We might provide results in the future).
The benchmark requires the above build process, a cd ../../ and the following steps:
cd bench/
cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON .
cmake --build .
sudo cp libascongobench.so /usr/local/lib/
Run the benchmark using go run bench.go, it calls the benchmarking c-functions for ascon-80pq and displays the results.
This is a very simple and third-party binding implementation: it does not offer warranty of any kind (nor any security guarantees).