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authorBilly Brumley <bbrumley@gmail.com>2018-04-24 16:00:08 +0300
committerAndy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>2018-05-09 13:29:48 +0200
commitfe2d3975880e6a89702f18ec58881307bf862542 (patch)
tree584e4788d2db332354cd5f1d912d1d27785ebd97 /crypto/ec/ec_mult.c
parent06e0950d20d3110849dea28eb78cac4127618b48 (diff)
ECDSA: remove nonce padding (delegated to EC_POINT_mul)
* EC_POINT_mul is now responsible for constant time point multiplication (for single fixed or variable point multiplication, when the scalar is in the range [0,group_order), so we need to strip the nonce padding from ECDSA. * Entry added to CHANGES * Updated EC_POINT_mul documentation - Integrate existing EC_POINT_mul and EC_POINTs_mul entries in the manpage to reflect the shift in constant-time expectations when performing a single fixed or variable point multiplication; - Add documentation to ec_method_st to reflect the updated "contract" between callers and implementations of ec_method_st.mul. Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/6070)
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/ec/ec_mult.c')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/ec/ec_mult.c b/crypto/ec/ec_mult.c
index 6b5553c9b2..1f34329182 100644
--- a/crypto/ec/ec_mult.c
+++ b/crypto/ec/ec_mult.c
@@ -113,9 +113,9 @@ void EC_ec_pre_comp_free(EC_PRE_COMP *pre)
*
* At a high level, it is Montgomery ladder with conditional swaps.
*
- * It performs either a fixed scalar point multiplication
+ * It performs either a fixed point multiplication
* (scalar * generator)
- * when point is NULL, or a generic scalar point multiplication
+ * when point is NULL, or a variable point multiplication
* (scalar * point)
* when point is not NULL.
*