The original contribution to the Apache Milagro Cryptographic Library (AMCL) has now been extended and is being re-released as MIRACL Core.
MIRACL Core is a multi-lingual and architecturally agnostic cryptographic library that supports elliptic curve cryptography, pairing-friendly curve cryptography, RSA, AES symmetric encryption and hash functions. It is designed from the ground up with side-channel attack resistance in mind. Multiple curves can be supported in a single application..
All code is entirely in the supported high-level languages. No assembly language and no third party code is required - these libraries are completely self-contained. MIRACL Core is currently available in the C, C++, Go, Rust, Python, Java, Javascript and Swift programming languages. Via code translators it can be easily translated to other languages (like WebAssembly and C#). It is particularly suitable for smaller devices such as those supported by Arduino infrastructure.
MIRACL Core features several extensions over the stock Milagro Cryptographic Library.
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Easy to use and flexible Threshold Secret Sharing module added (see share.c, share.cpp, SHARE.java etc.)
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Example program to track test vectors from https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve/
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Curves SM2, BN462, BLS48581, C13318, JUBJUB, X448, SECP160R1, C1174, BLS48286, TWEEDLEDUM, TWEEDLEDEE
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Support for precomputation for pairings (see BLS API)
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Performance and security improvements
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New HMAC message authentication module (KDFs, HMAC, HKDF_Extract/Expand, XOF_Expand, XMD_Expand)
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Improved side-channel resistance
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Deterministic hashing to curve points map2point (Elligator, SVDW, SSWU)
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Point compression in G2
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Demonstrated support for low-powered IoT processor nodes (ARM Cortex-M0/M4, MIPS32, RISC-V, ESP32)
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Emerging-standards-compliant implementation of BLS signature
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Emerging-standards-compliant implementation of HPKE (Hybrid Public Key Encryption)
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Emerging-standards-compliant implementation of deterministic Hash-To-Curve
Doxygen generated documentation for the C version of the library can be created by simply executing doxygen inside of the C directory. The C++ code is probably the best commented.
Install Python 3 and suitable compilers for each language of interest to you. Python 3 scripts are used to build the libraries from the command line for each of the supported languages. If using windows, set a command alias via
DOSKEY python3 = py $*
For a quick start, try out the Python version of the library, and run our sample programs