BPbpierre·Aug 25, 2025Submission
noble-curves: audited and minimal elliptic curve cryptography in JavaScript
1 points · Open discussionpaulmillr
noble-curves
TypeScript2022–2025
paulmillr / noble-curves
noble-curves
Audited & minimal JS implementation of elliptic curve cryptography.
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Audited & minimal JS implementation of elliptic curve cryptography.
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| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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3 sourcesBlueSky uses @noble/secp256k1 which performs this stuff in Javascript, with about 880* verifications per second on the Apple M2 (a chip with a relatively high IPC, likely higher than your average server).
Verifying those messages will take about a minute of CPU time per user (assuming no impact from cache misses due to threads swapping in and out and processing new data). I think that's quite significant.
* = https://github.com/paulmillr/noble-curves
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