An advanced crypto library for Go

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Interesting features:

• An abstract group arithmetic framework for public-key cryptography based on the discrete logarithm problem.

• Several alternative concrete instantiations of this abstract group arithmetic framework, based on the NIST elliptic curve implementations in the Go standard library and in the OpenSSL crypto library, and implementations of both generic Edwards curves and an adaptation of Adam Langley’s Ed25519-curve-specific optimized group arithmetic code to the abstract group API.

• Implementations of a number of advanced crypto algorithms built on this abstract group arithmetic framework, and hence automatically compatible woth both integer group and any suitable elliptic curves:

  • Shamir Verifiable Secret Sharing (VSS), the standard foundation for t-of-n threshold cryptographic techniques.

  • An implementation of the general Camenisch/Stadler framework for proofs of knowledge based on the discrete-logarithm problem. For example…

  • Anonymous and pseudonymous public-key encryption and signatures, where the sender or receiver are identified only as an anonymous member of some explicit set of public keys, without revealing anything about which member of the set signed the message or is to receive it.

  • C. Andrew Neff’s cryptographic protocol for proving the correctness of a shuffle.

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