Crate ecdsa

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RustCrypto: ECDSA

Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) as specified in FIPS 186-4 (Digital Signature Standard).

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About

This crate provides generic ECDSA support which can be used in the following ways:

Generic implementation of ECDSA usable with the following crates:
- k256 (secp256k1)
- p256 (NIST P-256)
- p384 (NIST P-384)
Other crates which provide their own complete implementations of ECDSA can also leverage the types from this crate to export ECDSA functionality in a generic, interoperable way by leveraging ecdsa::Signature with the signature::Signer and signature::Verifier traits.

⚠️ Security Warning

The ECDSA implementation contained in this crate has never been independently audited for security!

This crate contains a generic implementation of ECDSA which must be instantiated using a separate crate providing a concrete implementation of arithmetic for a particular curve. It’s possible timing variability can exist in concrete curve implementations, and thus this crate’s security can only be properly assessed for a specific elliptic curve.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Minimum Supported Rust Version

This crate requires Rust 1.57 at a minimum.

We may change the MSRV in the future, but it will be accompanied by a minor version bump.

License

All crates licensed under either of

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Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

`serde` support

When the serde feature of this crate is enabled, Serialize and Deserialize impls are provided for the Signature and VerifyingKey types.

Please see type-specific documentation for more information.

Interop

Any crates which provide an implementation of ECDSA for a particular elliptic curve can leverage the types from this crate, along with the k256, p256, and/or p384 crates to expose ECDSA functionality in a generic, interoperable way by leveraging the Signature type with in conjunction with the signature::Signer and signature::Verifier traits.

For example, the ring-compat crate implements the signature::Signer and signature::Verifier traits in conjunction with the p256::ecdsa::Signature and p384::ecdsa::Signature types to wrap the ECDSA implementations from ring in a generic, interoperable API.