Make secp256k1_ecmult_const handle infinity

Infinity isn't currently needed here, but correctly handling it is a
little more safe against future changes.

Update docs for it to make it clear that it is not constant time in A
(the input point). It never was constant time in Q (and would be a little
complicated to make constant time in A).

If it was later made constant time in A, infinity support would be easy
to preserve, e.g. by running it on a dummy value and cmoving infinity into
the output.
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Gregory Maxwell
2020-08-08 03:52:34 +00:00
committed by Pieter Wuille
parent 24c768ae09
commit a0e696fd4d
3 changed files with 8 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ static void secp256k1_ecmult_const(secp256k1_gej *r, const secp256k1_ge *a, cons
int i;
if (secp256k1_ge_is_infinity(a)) {
secp256k1_gej_set_infinity(r);
return;
}
/* build wnaf representation for q. */
/* split q into q_1 and q_lam (where q = q_1 + q_lam*lambda, and q_1 and q_lam are ~128 bit) */
secp256k1_scalar_split_lambda(&q_1, &q_lam, scalar);