THE PBC LIBARY The PBC (Pairing-Based Crypto) library is a C library providing low-level routines for pairing-based cryptosystems. It provides an interface for cyclic groups and a bilinear pairing defined on them that are thought to be cryptographically secure. The interface abstracts the mathematical details away from the programmer, so no knowledge of elliptic curves is needed to use the library. The PBC library also contains routines to generate curves suitable for use in a bilinear pairing. See the online manual for more information. The DocBook source files that are used to create the manual are in the doc/ subdirectory. The PBC library is released under the GNU General Public License. See the file COPYING for details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ben Lynn <blynn@cs.stanford.edu>