RustCrypto / RustCrypto/crypto-bigint

Optimized assembly acceleration

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Description

Though we should definitely maintain a baseline profile which is pure Rust, it would be nice to be able to leverage optimized assembly implementations, and ideally formally verified ones which have been mechanically extracted from upstream sources.

One possible source of such assembly is the s2n-bignum project: https://github.com/awslabs/s2n-bignum

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Research direction

Begin by reviewing the pure Rust baseline and the s2n-bignum project linked in the issue. Done means the project has a path to leverage an optimized, ideally formally verified assembly implementation while retaining the pure Rust baseline.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
cryptography, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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