[HN Gopher] Falcon - ECDSA and Ed25519 replacement with post-qua...
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       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.
        
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