News Archive 1

Many thanks to Zhang Ye, for contributing code that computes products of pairings. I’m told that using techniques described by Scott, Granger and Smart, the new function element_prod_pairing() is about 20% faster than a naive loop.

Many thanks to Aniket Kate for releasing C++ wrappers for the PBC library.

Geremy Condra has written Python 3 bindings for PBC.

Zhang Ye contributed a bugfix, and a patch that reportedly speeds up A1 pairings by about 5%.

Angelo De Caro wrote Java wrappers for the PBC library, and more amazingly, ported almost all of PBC to Java. I added a link to jPBC 1.0.0 on the Download page.