These functions are intended for compatibility with legacy software,
and are not normally needed in new secp256k1 applications.
They also do not obeying any particular standard (and likely cannot
without without undermining their compatibility), and so are a
better fit for contrib.
This avoids data=NULL and data = zeros to producing the same nonce.
Previously the code tried to avoid the case where some data inputs
aliased algo16 inputs by always padding out the data.
But because algo16 and data are different lengths they cannot
emulate each other, and the padding would match a data value of
all zeros.
ECDSA signature verification now requires normalized signatures (with S in the
lower half of the range). In case the input cannot be guaranteed to provide this,
a new function secp256k1_ecdsa_signature_normalize is provided to preprocess it.
There are now 2 encoding formats supported: 64-byte "compact" and DER.
The latter is strict: the data has to be exact DER, though the values
inside don't need to be valid.
This also makes use of optional valgrind instrumentation if -DVALGRIND
is set.
This also moves secp256k1.c above secp256k1.h in tests.c or otherwise
we get non-null macros on the public functions which may defeat some
of the VERIFY checks.
This makes it more clear that a null check is intended. Avoiding the
use of a pointer as a test condition alse increases the type-safety
of the comparisons.
(This is also MISRA C 2012 rules 14.4 and 11.9)
486b9bb Use a flags bitfield for compressed option to secp256k1_ec_pubkey_serialize and secp256k1_ec_privkey_export (Luke Dashjr)
05732c5 Callback data: Accept pointers to either const or non-const data (Luke Dashjr)
1973c73 Bugfix: Reinitialise buffer lengths that have been used as outputs (Luke Dashjr)
788038d Use size_t for lengths (at least in external API) (Luke Dashjr)
c9d7c2a secp256k1_context_set_{error,illegal}_callback: Restore default handler by passing NULL as function argument (Luke Dashjr)
9aac008 secp256k1_context_destroy: Allow NULL argument as a no-op (Luke Dashjr)
64b730b secp256k1_context_create: Use unsigned type for flags bitfield (Luke Dashjr)
This has the effect of making `secp256k1_scalar_mul_shift_var` constant
time in both input scalars. Keep the _var name because it is NOT constant
time in the shift amount.
As used in `secp256k1_scalar_split_lambda_var`, the shift is always
the constant 272, so this function becomes constant time, and it
loses the `_var` suffix.
Designed with clear separation of the wNAF conversion, precomputation
and exponentiation (since the precomp at least we will probably want
to separate in the API for users who reuse points a lot.
Future work:
- actually separate precomp in the API
- do multiexp rather than single exponentiation
- Add zero/one sanity check tests for ecmult
- Add unit test for secp256k1_scalar_split_lambda_var
- Typo fix in `ge_equals_ge`; was comparing b->y to itself, should
have been comparing a->y to b->y
- Normalize y-coordinate in `random_group_element_test`; this is
needed to pass random group elements as the first argument to
`ge_equals_ge`, which I will do in a future commit.
Right now `secp256k1_ec_pubkey_decompress` takes an in/out pointer to
a public key and replaces the input key with its decompressed variant.
This forces users who store compressed keys in small (<65 byte) fixed
size buffers (for example, the Rust bindings do this) to explicitly
and wastefully copy their key to a larger buffer.
[API BREAK]
* Make secp256k1_gej_add_var and secp256k1_gej_double return the
Z ratio to go from a.z to r.z.
* Use these Z ratios to speed up batch point conversion to affine
coordinates, and to speed up batch conversion of points to a
common Z coordinate.
* Add a point addition function that takes a point with a known
Z inverse.
* Due to secp256k1's endomorphism, all additions in the EC
multiplication code can work on affine coordinate (with an
implicit common Z coordinate), correcting the Z coordinate of
the result afterwards.
Refactoring by Pieter Wuille:
* Move more global-z logic into the group code.
* Separate code for computing the odd multiples from the code to bring it
to either storage or globalz format.
* Rename functions.
* Make all addition operations return Z ratios, and test them.
* Make the zr table format compatible with future batch chaining
(the first entry in zr becomes the ratio between the input and the
first output).
Original idea and code by Peter Dettman.
