Crate p256

RustCrypto: NIST P-256 (secp256r1) elliptic curve

Pure Rust implementation of the NIST P-256 (a.k.a. secp256r1, prime256v1) elliptic curve with support for ECDH, ECDSA signing/verification, and general purpose curve arithmetic support implemented in terms of traits from the elliptic-curve crate.

Documentation

⚠️ Security Warning

The elliptic curve arithmetic contained in this crate has never been independently audited!

This crate has been designed with the goal of ensuring that secret-dependent operations are performed in constant time (using the subtle crate and constant-time formulas). However, it has not been thoroughly assessed to ensure that generated assembly is constant time on common CPU architectures.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Supported Algorithms

• Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH): gated under the ecdh feature.
• Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA): gated under the ecdsa feature.

About NIST P-256

NIST P-256 is a Weierstrass curve specified in SP 800-186: Recommendations for Discrete Logarithm-based Cryptography: Elliptic Curve Domain Parameters.

Also known as prime256v1 (ANSI X9.62) and secp256r1 (SECG), it’s included in the US National Security Agency’s “Suite B” and is widely used in protocols like TLS and the associated X.509 PKI.

Minimum Supported Rust Version

Rust 1.65 or higher.

Minimum supported Rust version can be changed in the future, but it will be done with a minor version bump.

SemVer Policy

• All on-by-default features of this library are covered by SemVer
• MSRV is considered exempt from SemVer as noted above

License

All crates licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0
• MIT license

at your option.

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 are impl’d for the following types:

• AffinePoint
• Scalar
• ecdsa::VerifyingKey

Please see type-specific documentation for more information.

Re-exports

• pub use elliptic_curve;
• pub use elliptic_curve::pkcs8;

Modules

• ecdsa
  Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)

Structs

• NistP256
  NIST P-256 elliptic curve.
• Scalar
  Scalars are elements in the finite field modulo n.

Type Aliases

• AffinePoint
  Elliptic curve point in affine coordinates.
• BlindedScalar
  Blinded scalar.
• CompressedPoint
  Compressed SEC1-encoded NIST P-256 curve point.
• EncodedPoint
  NIST P-256 SEC1 encoded point.
• FieldBytes
  NIST P-256 field element serialized as bytes.
• NonZeroScalar
  Non-zero NIST P-256 scalar field element.
• ProjectivePoint
  Elliptic curve point in projective coordinates.
• PublicKey
  NIST P-256 public key.
• SecretKey
  NIST P-256 secret key.
• U32
• U256
  256-bit unsigned big integer.