mkalinin/draft-irtf-cfrg-bls-signature

BLS Standard Draft

The repo is maintained by a working group aiming to standardize BLS signature scheme. This repo was moved from here.

News:

• This draft has been adopted by the CFRG as an active work group draft
• Major updates since last version:
  • Changed serialization methods
  • Use HKDF to derive keys
  • Use hash to curve/group methods from Hash to curve draft

Useful links:

• Pairing draft: stable, dev
• Hash to curve draft: stable, dev
• Current reference implementations:
  • https://github.com/kwantam/bls_sigs_ref
  • https://github.com/sigp/milagro_bls/tree/experimental
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/ursa/blob/master/libursa/src/bls/mod.rs
  • https://github.com/mikelodder7/bls12-381-comparison

Version control

Major milestone updates (version 0, 1, ...) will be uploaded to IETF webpage. Minor advancement are released through subversions.

Comments and feedbacks

Feel free to submit any feedback by

• creating issues (preferred method), or
• pull request (please use it for editorial only)

Formatting

To generate txt/pdf:

1. use mmark to convert md to xml
2. use xml2rfc to convert xml to txt/pdf