The blst package provides a Go interface to the blst BLS12-381 signature library.
The build process consists of two steps, code generation followed by compilation.
./generate.py # Optional - only required if making code changes
go build
go test
The generate.py script is used to generate both min-pk and min-sig variants of the binding from a common code base. It consumes the *.tgo files along with blst_minpk_test.go and produces blst.go and blst_minsig_test.go. The .tgo files can treated as if they were .go files, including the use of gofmt and goimports. The generate script will filter out extra imports while processing and automatically run goimports on the final blst.go file.
After running generate.py, go build and go test can be run as usual. Cgo will compile server.c, which includes the required C implementation files, and assembly.S, which includes appropriate pre-generated assembly code for the platform. To compile on Windows one has to have MinGW gcc on the %PATH%.
If the test or target application crashes with an "illegal instruction" exception [after copying to an older system], rebuild with CGO_CFLAGS environment variable set to -O -D__BLST_PORTABLE__. Don't forget -O!
There are two primary modes of operation that can be chosen based on type definitions in the application.
For minimal-pubkey-size operations:
type PublicKey = blst.P1Affine
type Signature = blst.P2Affine
type AggregateSignature = blst.P2Aggregate
type AggregatePublicKey = blst.P1Aggregate
For minimal-signature-size operations:
type PublicKey = blst.P2Affine
type Signature = blst.P1Affine
type AggregateSignature = blst.P1Aggregate
type AggregatePublicKey = blst.P2Aggregate
TODO - structures and possibly methods
A complete example for generating a key, signing a message, and verifying the message:
package main
import (
"crypto/rand"
"fmt"
blst "github.com/supranational/blst/bindings/go"
)
type PublicKey = blst.P1Affine
type Signature = blst.P2Affine
type AggregateSignature = blst.P2Aggregate
type AggregatePublicKey = blst.P1Aggregate
func main() {
var ikm [32]byte
_, _ = rand.Read(ikm[:])
sk := blst.KeyGen(ikm[:])
pk := new(PublicKey).From(sk)
var dst = []byte("BLS_SIG_BLS12381G2_XMD:SHA-256_SSWU_RO_NUL_")
msg := []byte("hello foo")
sig := new(Signature).Sign(sk, msg, dst)
if !sig.Verify(true, pk, true, msg, dst) {
fmt.Println("ERROR: Invalid!")
} else {
fmt.Println("Valid!")
}
}
See the tests for further examples of usage.
If you're cross-compiling, you have to set CC environment variable to the target C cross-compiler and CGO_ENABLED to 1. For example, to compile the test program for ARM:
env GOARCH=arm CC=arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc CGO_ENABLED=1 go test -c