# Unsafe Fast Fork ## DO NOT USE THIS LIBRARY This is an experimental fork with extreme changes that **intentionally break important security mechanisms and functionality** in favor of speed for certain security research workloads. The forked library version is **completely unsuitable for any type of production use** and receives no support or maintenance of any kind. It is published primarily as a reference for other researchers. You have been warned. The original documentation content and other references are kept as-is to limit the repository differences to upstream. However, be aware that none of the contact information, usage guidance or security guarantees still applies since this is a deliberately broken variant of the project. Thanks and credits go to https://github.com/llamasoft/secp256k1_fast_unsafe , on which many of the optimizations are based. ----

Rust Secp256k1

`rust-secp256k1` is a wrapper around [libsecp256k1](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1), a C library implementing various cryptographic functions using the [SECG](https://www.secg.org/) curve [secp256k1](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Secp256k1). This library: * exposes type-safe Rust bindings for all `libsecp256k1` functions * implements key generation * implements deterministic nonce generation via RFC6979 * implements many unit tests, adding to those already present in `libsecp256k1` * makes no allocations (except in unit tests) for efficiency and use in freestanding implementations ### Contributing Contributions to this library are welcome. A few guidelines: * Any breaking changes must have an accompanied entry in CHANGELOG.md * No new dependencies, please. * No crypto should be implemented in Rust, with the possible exception of hash functions. Cryptographic contributions should be directed upstream to libsecp256k1. * This library should always compile with any combination of features on **Rust 1.56.1**. ### Githooks To assist devs in catching errors _before_ running CI we provide some githooks. If you do not already have locally configured githooks you can use the ones in this repository by running, in the root directory of the repository: ``` git config --local core.hooksPath githooks/ ``` Alternatively add symlinks in your `.git/hooks` directory to any of the githooks we provide. ### Benchmarks We use a custom Rust compiler configuration conditional to guard the bench mark code. To run the bench marks use: `RUSTFLAGS='--cfg=bench' cargo +nightly bench --features=recovery`. ### A note on `non_secure_erase` This crate's secret types (`SecretKey`, `Keypair`, `SharedSecret`, `Scalar`, and `DisplaySecret`) have a method called `non_secure_erase` that *attempts* to overwrite the contained secret. This method is provided to assist other libraries in building secure secret erasure. However, this library makes no guarantees about the security of using `non_secure_erase`. In particular, the compiler doesn't have any concept of secrets and in most cases can arbitrarily move or copy values anywhere it pleases. For more information, consult the [`zeroize`](https://docs.rs/zeroize) documentation. ## Fuzzing If you want to fuzz this library, or any library which depends on it, you will probably want to disable the actual cryptography, since fuzzers are unable to forge signatures and therefore won't test many interesting codepaths. To instead use a trivially-broken but fuzzer-accessible signature scheme, compile with `--cfg=secp256k1_fuzz` in your `RUSTFLAGS` variable. Note that `cargo hfuzz` does **not** set this config flag automatically. In 0.27.0 and earlier versions, we used the `--cfg=fuzzing` which honggfuzz does set, but we changed this because there was no way to override it.