This has been not been caught by the new constant-time tests because
valgrind currently gives us a zero exit code even if finds errors, see
https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/pull/723#discussion_r388246806 .
This commit also simplifies the arithmetic in memczero.
Note that the timing leak here was the bit whether a secret key was
out of range. This leak is harmless and not exploitable. It is just
our overcautious practice to prefer constant-time code even here.
There were several places where the code was non-constant time
for invalid secret inputs. These are harmless under sane use
but get in the way of automatic const-time validation.
(Nonce overflow in signing is not addressed, nor is s==0 in
signing)
ECMULT_CONST_TABLE_GET_GE was branching on its secret input.
Also makes secp256k1_gej_double_var implemented as a wrapper
on secp256k1_gej_double_nonzero instead of the other way
around. This wasn't a constant time bug but it was fragile
and could easily become one in the future if the double_var
algorithm is changed.
Identifiers starting with an underscore and followed immediately by a capital letter are reserved by the C++ standard.
The only header guards not fixed are those in the headers auto-generated from java.
This fixes a cosmetic precedence bug in the tests along with some
type warnings.
It also adds a dummy cast to the CHECK macro to avoid hundreds
of statement with no effect warnings on compilers that warn about
such things.
