[Cryptography] How slow is pairing based crypto compared to 25519

jamesd at echeque.com jamesd at echeque.com
Tue Feb 6 08:11:47 EST 2018


The fastest library I can find for pairing based crypto is 
https://github.com/herumi/mcl

How does this compare to Curve25519 https://github.com/bernedogit/amber

The trouble is that doing interesting things with crypto currency tends 
to involve rather large number of elliptic curve operations per transaction.


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