PBC Library Manual 0.5.6
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PBC Library Manual 0.5.6

Ben Lynn

Table of Contents

1. Installing PBC

Quick start
Basics

2. Tutorial

BLS signatures
Import/export

3. Pairing functions

Initializing pairings
Applying pairings
Other pairing functions

4. Element functions

Initializing elements
Assigning elements
Converting elements
Element arithmetic
Exponentiating elements
Comparing elements
Element I/O
Random elements
Element import/export

5. Param functions

Param generation

6. Other functions

Random bits
Custom allocation
Logging

7. Bundled programs

Pairing-based calculator
Parameter generation
Example cryptosystems
Benchmarks

8. PBC internals

Groups, rings, fields
Internal randomness
Type A internals
Type B internals
Type C internals
Type D internals
Type E Internals
Type F internals
Type G Internals
Testing functions
Dynamic arrays
Symbol tables
Religious stances

9. Security issues

A. Contributors

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