The expression `G.decode('hex')` fails with the following error message
on Sage 9.5:
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
Fix that by converting the hex-string to bytes using `bytes.fromhex`.
The previous implementation returns an off-curve point for the input t=0.
This rewrite addresses that issue by implicity returning the on-curve point
(d, sqrt(1 + b)), which is the point that the paper Indifferentiable Hashing
to Barreto–Naehrig Curves suggests returning in this case.
Note: At the moment it is cryptographically impossible for the input t to be 0.
Silence a compiler warning about an unitialized use of a scalar in case
the user tries to provide a 0-length list of commitments.
Also ensures that commitments have normalized field elements when they
are loaded into ges.
