[HN Gopher] Falcon - ECDSA and Ed25519 replacement with post-qua...
___________________________________________________________________
Falcon - ECDSA and Ed25519 replacement with post-quantum ring
signatures
Author : capableweb
Score : 4 points
Date : 2021-03-04 21:33 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (falcon-sign.info)
(TXT) w3m dump (falcon-sign.info)
| api wrote:
| I wish the PoC of these were written in Go or Rust so they could
| be built without weird hacks or dependencies.
| capableweb wrote:
| Having both Python (https://github.com/tprest/falcon.py) and C
| (https://falcon-sign.info/impl/README.txt.html) seems good
| enough for a PoC. Usually you only get one implementation :)
| theamk wrote:
| C is great because almost every language, Go and Rust included,
| has well supported FFI interface for it, and because it has no
| runtime requirements.
|
| This particular library doesn't even use memory allocation,
| which is great for things like embedded, OS-less hardware. This
| would be impossible in Go, and will require non-ideomatic Rust.
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2021-03-04 23:01 UTC)