News Archive 4

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

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.

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

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.

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.