// Copyright (c) 2021 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package field import "errors" // This file contains additional functionality that is not included in the // upstream crypto/ed25519/edwards25519/field package. // SetWideBytes sets v to x, where x is a 64-byte little-endian encoding, which // is reduced modulo the field order. If x is not of the right length, // SetWideBytes returns nil and an error, and the receiver is unchanged. // // SetWideBytes is not necessary to select a uniformly distributed value, and is // only provided for compatibility: SetBytes can be used instead as the chance // of bias is less than 2⁻²⁵⁰. func (v *Element) SetWideBytes(x []byte) (*Element, error) { if len(x) != 64 { return nil, errors.New("edwards25519: invalid SetWideBytes input size") } // Split the 64 bytes into two elements, and extract the most significant // bit of each, which is ignored by SetBytes. lo, _ := new(Element).SetBytes(x[:32]) loMSB := uint64(x[31] >> 7) hi, _ := new(Element).SetBytes(x[32:]) hiMSB := uint64(x[63] >> 7) // The output we want is // // v = lo + loMSB * 2²⁵⁵ + hi * 2²⁵⁶ + hiMSB * 2⁵¹¹ // // which applying the reduction identity comes out to // // v = lo + loMSB * 19 + hi * 2 * 19 + hiMSB * 2 * 19² // // l0 will be the sum of a 52 bits value (lo.l0), plus a 5 bits value // (loMSB * 19), a 6 bits value (hi.l0 * 2 * 19), and a 10 bits value // (hiMSB * 2 * 19²), so it fits in a uint64. v.l0 = lo.l0 + loMSB*19 + hi.l0*2*19 + hiMSB*2*19*19 v.l1 = lo.l1 + hi.l1*2*19 v.l2 = lo.l2 + hi.l2*2*19 v.l3 = lo.l3 + hi.l3*2*19 v.l4 = lo.l4 + hi.l4*2*19 return v.carryPropagate(), nil }