Source: libpbc Priority: extra Maintainer: Paul Miller Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), autotools-dev, gentoo-functions, libreadline-dev Standards-Version: 3.7.2 Section: libs Package: libpbc-dev Section: libdevel Architecture: any Depends: libpbc0 (= ${Source-Version}) Description: Pairing-Based Cryptography Library Pairing-based cryptography is a relatively young area of cryptography that revolves around a certain function with special properties. The PBC (Pairing-Based Cryptography) library is a free C library (released under the Lesser GNU Public License) built on the GMP library that performs the mathematical operations underlying pairing-based cryptosystem. The PBC library is designed to be the backbone of implementations of pairing-based cryptosystems, thus speed and portability are important goals. It provides routines such as elliptic curve generation, elliptic curve arithmetic and pairing computation. Thanks to the GMP library, despite being written in C, pairings times are reasonable. The API is abstract enough that the PBC library can be used even if the programmer possesses only an elementary understanding of pairings. There is no need to learn about elliptic curves or much of number theory. (The minimum requirement is some knowledge of cyclic groups and properties of the pairing.) This tutorial shows how to implement a pairing-based cryptosystem in a few lines using the PBC library. The PBC library can also be used to build conventional cryptosystems. Package: libpbc0 Section: libs Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Description: Pairing-Based Cryptography Library Pairing-based cryptography is a relatively young area of cryptography that revolves around a certain function with special properties. The PBC (Pairing-Based Cryptography) library is a free C library (released under the Lesser GNU Public License) built on the GMP library that performs the mathematical operations underlying pairing-based cryptosystem. The PBC library is designed to be the backbone of implementations of pairing-based cryptosystems, thus speed and portability are important goals. It provides routines such as elliptic curve generation, elliptic curve arithmetic and pairing computation. Thanks to the GMP library, despite being written in C, pairings times are reasonable. The API is abstract enough that the PBC library can be used even if the programmer possesses only an elementary understanding of pairings. There is no need to learn about elliptic curves or much of number theory. (The minimum requirement is some knowledge of cyclic groups and properties of the pairing.) This tutorial shows how to implement a pairing-based cryptosystem in a few lines using the PBC library. The PBC library can also be used to build conventional cryptosystems.