News Archive 2

Since I'll lose my office machine soon, I moved the git repository to repo.or.cz. Git doesn't appear to be installed on any Stanford servers. In fact, Googling for "stanford git" suggests I'm the only person here using this version control system.

Sat May 19 21:04:40 PDT 2007

Mulitplicative subgroups are handled properly so that one can pick random elements and hash to G_T. Hopefully it should be more robust in general. The code is a bit messy though, and I plan to clean it up later.

Mon May 14 23:29:03 PDT 2007

Michael Cheng kindly sent me a modified version of PBC 0.4.7 which can be compiled using Microsoft Visual C++. I have made it available on the download page.

I have not tried it myself as I don't have this particular compiler handy.

Tue Apr 3 19:53:19 PDT 2007

I patched a memory leak reported by Michael Cheng. I forgot to free a temporary variable when I added Lucas sequences (which speed up D and G pairings).

Sun Mar 25 14:41:56 PDT 2007

Applied patch by Joe Cooley that addresses configure.ac issues and fixes a bug in example/zss.c.

Fri Mar 16 01:08:52 PDT 2007