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Aleo uses a tailored set of pairing-friendly elliptic curves to perform efficient proof generation and verification.
| Edwards BLS12 | BLS12-377 | |
|---|---|---|
| Curve Type | Twisted Edwards | Barreto-Lynn-Scott |
| Scalar Field Size | 251 bits | 253 bits |
| Base Field Size | 253 bits | 377 bits |
| G1 Compressed Size* | 32 bytes | 48 bytes |
| G2 Compressed Size* | N/A | 96 bytes |
* rounded to multiples of 8 bytes.