A compact Ed25519 and X25519 implementation for Rust

• Formally-verified Curve25519 field arithmetic
• no_std-friendly
• WebAssembly-friendly
• Compute@Edge-friendly
• Lightweight
• Zero dependencies if randomness is provided by the application
• Only one portable dependency (getrandom) if not
• Supports incremental signatures (streaming API)
• Safe and simple Rust interface

API documentation

Example usage

cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
ed25519-compact = "2"

Example code:

// A message to sign and verify.
let message = b"test";

// Generates a new key pair using a random seed.
// A given seed will always produce the same key pair.
let key_pair = KeyPair::from_seed(Seed::default());

// Computes a signature for this message using the secret part of the key pair.
let signature = key_pair.sk.sign(message, Some(Noise::default()));

// Verifies the signature using the public part of the key pair.
key_pair
    .pk
    .verify(message, &signature)
    .expect("Signature didn't verify");

// Verification of a different message using the same signature and public key fails.
key_pair
    .pk
    .verify(b"A different message", &signature)
    .expect_err("Signature shouldn't verify");

// All these structures can be viewed as raw bytes simply by dereferencing them:
let signature_as_bytes: &[u8] = signature.as_ref();
println!("Signature as bytes: {:?}", signature_as_bytes);

Incremental API example usage

Messages can also be supplied as multiple parts (streaming API) in order to handle large messages without using much memory:

/// Creates a new key pair.
let kp = KeyPair::generate();

/// Creates a state for an incremental signer.
let mut st = kp.sk.sign_incremental(Noise::default());

/// Feeds the message as any number of chunks, and sign the concatenation.
st.absorb("mes");
st.absorb("sage");
let signature = st.sign();

/// Creates a state for an incremental verifier.
let mut st = kp.pk.verify_incremental(&signature)?;

/// Feeds the message as any number of chunks, and verify the concatenation.
st.absorb("mess");
st.absorb("age");
st.verify()?;

Cargo features

• self-verify: after having computed a new signature, verify that is it valid. This is slower, but improves resilience against fault attacks. It is enabled by default on WebAssembly targets.
• std: disables no_std compatibility in order to make errors implement the standard Error trait.
• random (enabled by default): adds Default implementations to the Seed and Noise objects, in order to securely create random keys and noise.
• traits: add support for the traits from the ed25519 and signature crates.
• pem: add support for importing/exporting keys as OpenSSL-compatible PEM files.
• blind-keys: add support for key blinding.
• opt_size: Enable size optimizations (based on benchmarks, 8-15% size reduction at the cost of 6.5-7% performance).
• x25519: Enable support for the X25519 key exchange system.
• disable-signatures: Disable support for signatures, and only compile support for X25519.