Fast and efficient Rust implementation of ed25519 key generation, signing, and verification in Rust.
On an Intel i5 Sandy Bridge running at 2.6 GHz, with TurboBoost enabled (and also running in QubesOS with lots of other VMs executing), this code achieves the following performance benchmarks:
∃!isisⒶwintermute:(release/0.1.0 *$)~/code/rust/ed25519 ∴ cargo bench
Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 0.0 secs
Running target/release/deps/ed25519-0135748522c518d8
running 5 tests
test ed25519::test::test_sign_verify ... ignored
test ed25519::test::test_unmarshal_marshal ... ignored
test ed25519::test::bench_key_generation ... bench: 54,837 ns/iter (+/- 11,613)
test ed25519::test::bench_sign ... bench: 69,735 ns/iter (+/- 21,902)
test ed25519::test::bench_verify ... bench: 183,891 ns/iter (+/- 75,304)
test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 2 ignored; 3 measured
In comparision, the equivalent package in Golang performs as follows:
∃!isisⒶwintermute:(master *=)~/code/go/src/github.com/agl/ed25519 ∴ go test -bench .
PASS
BenchmarkKeyGeneration 20000 85880 ns/op
BenchmarkSigning 20000 89115 ns/op
BenchmarkVerification 10000 212585 ns/op
ok github.com/agl/ed25519 7.500s
Making key generation, signing, and verification a rough average of one third faster, one fifth faster, and one eighth faster respectively. Of course, this is just my machine, and these results—nowhere near rigorous—should be taken with a fistful of salt.
Our elliptic curve library (which this code uses) has not yet received sufficient peer review by other qualified cryptographers to be considered in any way, shape, or form, safe.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK
Documentation is available here.
To install, add the following to the dependencies section of your project's
Cargo.toml:
ed25519 = "0.1.0"
Then, in your library or executable source, add:
extern crate ed25519