Jeff Burdges

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I'd think `try_extend` gives a better name.

You'd never use BLS merely for the length. You'd choose curve roles based on your aggregation plans, so you need a reversable Engine trait that hides the base fields, which...

It'd support some roll up for your randomness beacon too, which sounds more immediately useful.

In this vein, one could similarly do threshold decryption by replacing Z by a sender controlled scalar multiple of G_1, but then senders much include a proof-of-knowledge of Z, and...

Just use zeroize instead: https://github.com/iqlusioninc/crates/tree/develop/zeroize If your dependencies do not implement zeroize then you can `impl Zeroize` yourself by copying and calling this `zeroize_hack` fn: https://github.com/w3f/schnorrkel/blob/master/src/lib.rs#L225

Appears `extern crate` no longer works in cargo script.

Cool, thanks! We'll select MPIR over GMP or ramp: https://github.com/poanetwork/vdf/issues/13 If anyone wants funding to work on ramp, then maybe we can help arrange something, but not sure it's such...