Plans for pairing and crates.io?

[zcash]

Plans for pairing and crates.io?

[str4d]

Yes, the intention is to merge all the changes from this repository back up into the original repositories, as their refactoring in #41 completes. We created Git subtrees in this repository primarily because the refactor requires changing all the crates in parallel, and it is much easier to do this in a single workspace.

We also want to be publishing crates even while the primary development is happening here. The main blocker on that is the fact that we depend on a GitHub repository for BLAKE2b. Once RustCrypto/hashes#78 is merged and released, we can replace this dependency and start publishing crates again 🙂

[str4d]

To answer your last question:

• rand update is planned already in #60 and I want to do this soon.
• Hashing to the curve is something I'd like to see an API included for in pairing, but an implementation would likely not go into pairing itself, but into curve-specific crates like bls12_381.
• Serde support: seems reasonable but we'd probably want to merge something later on, as we couldn't promise compatibility across the refactor.

[afck]

Thank you for the detailed answer! I guess it's best to keep the Filecoin fork separate for now, and backport the changes after the refactoring is done.