LIBPBC

This is tested against libpbc version 0.4.18 .

(The v0.8+ builds will pull the right version of libpbc and try to build it on some platforms.)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2008 by Paul Miller

SYNOPSIS

use Crypt::PBC;

my $pairing = new Crypt::PBC("params_d.txt");

    my $G1      = $pairing->init_G1->random;
    my $G2      = $pairing->init_G2->random->double->square;
    my $GT      = $pairing->init_GT->pairing_apply( $G1, $G2 );

"Chapter 1. Overview"

The following text is the Overview chapter from the PBC library documentation:

The PBC library is a free portable C library designed to make it easy to implement pairing-based cryptosystems. It provides an abstract interface to a cyclic group with a bilinear pairing, and the programmer does not need to worry about, or even know about elliptic curves.

It is built on top of GMP, another C library which performs arbitrary precision arithmetic on integers, rationals and floats with strong emphasis on portability and speed.

The PBC library homepage: http://crypto.stanford.edu/pbc/

The GMP library homepage: http://www.swox.com/gmp/