Re: [PATCH] crypto: ecc - check for invalid values in the key verification test

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Nov 16 2018 - 01:16:19 EST


On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:36:18AM +0300, Vitaly Chikunov wrote:
> Currently used scalar multiplication algorithm (Matthieu Rivain, 2011)
> have invalid values for scalar == 1, n-1, and for regularized version
> n-2, which was previously not checked. Verify that they are not used as
> private keys.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Chikunov <vt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> crypto/ecc.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Patch applied. Thanks.
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