RustCrypto / RustCrypto/crypto-bigint
Evaluate HACL-rs bignums
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Description
From https://github.com/RustCrypto/crypto-bigint/issues/577#issuecomment-2016550215:
HACL* extracted as pure safe Rust (dubbed "HACL-rs") lives here: https://github.com/hacl-star/hacl-star/tree/afromher_rs/dist/rs
In there, you'll find bignums in src/hacl:
- bignum.rs, bignum64.rs: variable-length, 32 and 64-bit versions (scattered across these two files, this needs to be done better)
- bignum{4096,256}.rs: fixed-length, 32-bit limbs
- bignum{4096,256}_64.rs: fixed-length, 64-bit limbs
cc @protz @spitters
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Research direction
Start by reading the HACL-rs bignum implementations in src/hacl, especially bignum.rs, bignum64.rs, bignum4096.rs, bignum256.rs, and their 64-bit variants. Compare their scope and organization with this library, then establish what should be evaluated or integrated; the issue does not define a completion criterion.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cryptography
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100