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TW: blockchain > Releasing Constantine v0.1.0 - A modular cryptography stack for blockchain and proof systems I guess OP had to “edit” the title for concisene

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• tempodox 2y ago
  Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #239: Never be afraid to mislabel a product. Cryptography and cryptocurrency aren't the same, and I know of no other use for blockchain. Maybe they were hoping to win over non-believers by deceiving them about the content of the article.
  • narodnik 2y ago
    let me guess, you don't actually write code. just talk down people who actually do this is a crypto lib and the authors repo obv has a ton of hardwork https://github.com/mratsim/constantine https://github.com/mratsim/constantine
  • IanCal 2y ago
    > Cryptography and cryptocurrency aren't the same, They aren't, but this is a cryptography library.
    • debatem1 2y ago
      At a glance it seems fair to say that this is both a cryptocurrency library and a cryptography library. The only truly general purpose thing here is SHA256. Every protocol on its supported list starts with either "ethereum" or "evm", and to the best of my knowledge the other primitives have seen very little use besides cryptocurrency.
      • mratsim 2y ago
        BLS signatures are general purpose, the only Ethereum specific thing is choosing which elliptic curves are used for public keys and which for signatures as well as a prefix before hashing inputs. Similarly KZG polynomial commitments are generic, the Ethereum specific thing is the trusted setup ceremony which needs to be specialized per protocol. The finite field backends and the elliptic curves supported are all generic as well: https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/blob/master/constantine%2Fnamed%2Fconfig_fields_and_curves.nim#L73-L283 https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/blob/master/constanti...
      • mratsim 2y ago
        The Internet Engineering Task Force, which in particular standardizes TLS, has acknowledge my contributions for my contributions to the very generic and globally useful hashing-to-curve primitive: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve-16#name-acknowledgements https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-irtf-cfrg-hash-t... And BLS signatures are standards as well: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-irtf-cfrg-bls-signature-05.html https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-irtf-cfrg-bls-signatur...
  • inhumantsar 2y ago
    the vehemently anti-blockchain community is starting to sound more religious about their belief than the cryptobros ever did...