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POLYVAL is GHASH's little brother, required by the AES-GCM-SIV construction. It's defined in RFC8452. The irreducible polynomial is a mirror of GHASH's (which doesn't change anything in our implementation that didn't reverse the raw bits to start with). But most importantly, POLYVAL encodes byte strings as little-endian instead of big-endian, which makes it a little bit faster on the vast majority of modern CPUs. So, both share the same code, just with comptime magic to use the correct endianness and only double the key for GHASH.
A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Resources
- Introduction
- Download & Documentation
- Chapter 0 - Getting Started | ZigLearn.org
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- download a pre-built binary
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The ultimate goal of the Zig project is to serve users. As a first-order effect, this means users of the compiler, helping programmers to write better software. Even more important, however, are the end-users.
Zig is intended to be used to help end-users accomplish their goals. Zig should be used to empower end-users, never to exploit them financially, or to limit their freedom to interact with hardware or software in any way.
However, such problems are best solved with social norms, not with software licenses. Any attempt to complicate the software license of Zig would risk compromising the value Zig provides.
Therefore, Zig is available under the MIT (Expat) License, and comes with a humble request: use it to make software better serve the needs of end-users.
This project redistributes code from other projects, some of which have other licenses besides MIT. Such licenses are generally similar to the MIT license for practical purposes. See the subdirectories and files inside lib/ for more details.