News Archive 2

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.

A couple of bug fixes.

I added functions so you can get at the coordinates of a point, and also the coefficients of a polynomial.

I replaced the hand-coded parser of pbc/pbc with one generated by Flex and Bison. I also changed its syntax slightly.

No garbage is collected, so long scripts should be avoided. I added a sample script, pairing_test.pbc, which I hope to be the beginning of a battery of tests.