News Archive 1

Fixed bug reported by Adam McLaurin.

Wed Feb 20 01:25:58 PST 2008

Adam Aviv has released an application for SSARES: Secure Searchable Automated Remote Email Storage, which uses the PBC library.

His code originally used PBC version 0.2.16, an ancient version of PBC. He recently converted to the latest version: 0.4.12. If anyone else needs to do this same, the main obstacles Adam reported are:

• element_pow is now element_pow_mpz

• element_from_hash has swapped the order of the last two parameters

• pairing_apply is the current name for executing a pairing (without preprocessing)

Sun Oct 7 02:03:53 PDT 2007

Preprocessed exponentiation works again in GT. Thanks to Ian Goldberg for reporting this bug.

Mon Aug 27 15:03:25 PDT 2007

I finally repaired my laptop on which I develop PBC.

This release plugs a couple of memory leaks that were reported on the mailing list.

Sat Jul 14 20:13:15 PDT 2007

My PhD dissertation, "On the Implementation of Pairing-Based Cryptography", talks about many of the algorithms used by the PBC library.

Sat Jun 9 19:18:15 PDT 2007