DEPRECATED
More useful implementations exist:
- https://github.com/supranational/blst/tree/master/bindings/go
- https://github.com/kilic/bls12-381 ...
Bilinear pairing BLS12-381.
RTFM
- https://github.com/ebfull/pairing/tree/master/src/bls12_381#bls12-381 for specification.
- https://godoc.org/github.com/dis2/bls12 for API documentation.
- https://godoc.org/github.com/dis2/blsig for example applicatoin.
Performance
(2.6ghz Haswell)
BenchmarkBaseMultG1 10000 204899 ns/op
BenchmarkMultG1 3000 543081 ns/op
BenchmarkMultG2 3000 593233 ns/op
BenchmarkPair 1000 1930860 ns/op
Ie about ~500 pairings/s. This is not far off from BN256.
Building gotchas
This is wrapper for RELIC. It is self-contained in that it links to amalgam of c files from git submodule of relic, no libraries involved. Meaning import should just straight work.