Type of the secret keys.

The size of a serialized value sk

sk_of_bytes_exn bs attempts to deserialize bs into a secret key. bs must be the little endian representation of the secret key. In this case, secret keys are scalars of BLS12-381 and are encoded on 32 bytes. The bytes sequence might be less of 32 bytes and in this case, the bytes sequence is padded on the right by 0's.

• raises Invalid_argument

  if the bytes sequence is longer than 32 bytes

sk_of_bytes_opt bs is the same than sk_of_bytes_exn but returns an option instead of an exception.

sk_to_bytes sk serialises the secret key into the little endian representation.

generate_sk ?key_info ikm generates a new (random) secret key. ikm must be at least 32 bytes (otherwise, raise Invalid_argument). The default value of key_info is the empty bytes sequence.

BLS signatures instantiation minimizing the size of the public keys (48 bytes) but use longer signatures (96 bytes).

BLS signatures instantiation minimizing the size of the signatures (48 bytes) but use longer public keys (96 bytes).