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@oleiba oleiba commented Apr 27, 2020

Note: ring's branch dependency can be changed to master once ZenGo-X/ring#1 is merged.

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[dependencies.ring]
git = "https://github.com/KZen-networks/ring.git"
branch = "feature/p256"
optional = true

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You probably explained it to me before, but why can't we take Ring from crate.io ?

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Because I forked and modified it (in order to extend the API of the keypair which is needed for this PR).
If we'll merge it to master (see ZenGo-X/ring#1) then we can publish KZen's repo with another name. How does that sound?

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can you give me a sense of what API extension were needed?

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Point arithmetics, serialization etc. (see PR)

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/// The size (in bytes) of a P-256 signature
pub const SIGNATURE_SIZE: usize = 64;
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what is P-256 signature ?
where do we use this const ?

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You're right, we don't we use it.
I'll push a commit to delete it.

BigInt::from(CURVE_ORDER.as_ref())
}

fn add(&self, other: &Seed) -> Secp256r1Scalar {
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Ring is not providing a way to do add/mul/sub/inv?

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Not for a field element.
I followed the same pattern as used in the Secp256k1 source, see https://github.com/KZen-networks/curv/blob/master/src/elliptic/curves/secp256_k1.rs#L160.

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omershlo commented May 1, 2020

Hey @oleiba ,

Have you checked https://github.com/RustCrypto/elliptic-curves ?
There is an implementation there for P-256 that looks really good.
(btw, it seems on first look that the above library has a similar concept to Curv library - maybe they were inspired by us. I would be happy to hear your take)

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oleiba commented May 1, 2020

It looks like a very new library, first commit in Jan 2020, even after I started my work on this P256 integration.
This seems like a good proposal for moving forward and easier integration in the future with smoother APIs, i.e. for p256 v2.
There's a good use of generics (type templates) for avoiding reuse of code and subtracting away the common and it's pure Rust. On the downside, ring is probably more battle-tested at this point (RustCrypto/elliptic-curves library do not use openssl or another highly used C lib).
That being said, I don't think I will have the bandwidth to substitute ring with this library in the near future.

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omershlo commented May 3, 2020

There is another issue there: RustCrypto/elliptic-curves#29

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str4d commented May 3, 2020

It looks like a very new library, first commit in Jan 2020

The traits in that library started off in the ecdsa crate back in October 2018. The elliptic-curves crate was extracted from ecdsa in December 2019, and moved into its own repository in January.

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