Low-level cryptography utilities for Starknet

starknet-crypto contains utilities for performing low-level cryptographic operations in Starknet.

You're advised to use high-level crypto utilities implemented by the starknet-core crate (or use it through the starknet::core re-export) if you're not familiar with cryptographic primitives. Using these low-level functions incorrectly could result in leaking your private key, for example.

This library does not provide constant-time guarantees.

WARNING

While it has been tested against data randomly generated from cairo-lang, this crate is NOT audited or reviewed for security. Use at your own risk.

If you're a cryptographer, you're welcome to contribute by reviewing the implementation :)

Benchmark

These results were generated on the author's machine with AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor running Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS.

For instructions on running the benchmarks yourself, check out this page.

Native

ecdsa_get_public_key    time:   [125.53 µs 125.63 µs 125.75 µs]
ecdsa_recover           time:   [421.74 µs 421.93 µs 422.16 µs]
ecdsa_sign              time:   [170.30 µs 170.50 µs 170.71 µs]
ecdsa_verify            time:   [428.34 µs 428.73 µs 429.17 µs]
pedersen_hash           time:   [33.379 µs 33.435 µs 33.521 µs]
poseidon_hash           time:   [12.552 µs 12.571 µs 12.595 µs]
poseidon_hash_single    time:   [12.572 µs 12.587 µs 12.601 µs]
poseidon_hash_many      time:   [25.048 µs 25.089 µs 25.137 µs]
rfc6979_generate_k      time:   [1.4810 µs 1.4817 µs 1.4827 µs]

WebAssembly

(With its excellent wasm performance, results are only provided for Node.js here. Check out the benchmark page for running the benchmark on other runtimes).

Runtime version:

$ node --version
v18.16.0

Node.js results:

ecdsa_get_public_key    time:   [1.0093 ms 1.0118 ms 1.0147 ms]
ecdsa_recover           time:   [3.0610 ms 3.0627 ms 3.0646 ms]
ecdsa_sign              time:   [1.0584 ms 1.0600 ms 1.0615 ms]
ecdsa_verify            time:   [3.0273 ms 3.0309 ms 3.0345 ms]
pedersen_hash           time:   [234.12 µs 234.30 µs 234.49 µs]
poseidon_hash           time:   [90.892 µs 91.032 µs 91.166 µs]
poseidon_hash_single    time:   [90.358 µs 90.404 µs 90.451 µs]
poseidon_hash_many      time:   [180.93 µs 181.13 µs 181.35 µs]
rfc6979_generate_k      time:   [9.2623 µs 9.2793 µs 9.2979 µs]

Credits

Most of the code in this crate for the Pedersen hash implementation was inspired and modified from the awesome pathfinder from Equilibrium.

The Poseidon hash implementation was also ported from pathfinder.

Based on this solid foundation, ECDSA functionalities were inspired and ported from the crypto-cpp implementation from StarkWare.