#ifndef PUTTY_ECC_H #define PUTTY_ECC_H /* * Arithmetic functions for the various kinds of elliptic curves used * by PuTTY's public-key cryptography. * * All of these elliptic curves are over the finite field whose order * is a large prime p. (Elliptic curves over a field of order 2^n are * also known, but PuTTY currently has no need of them.) */ /* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Weierstrass curves (or rather, 'short form' Weierstrass curves). * * A curve in this form is defined by two parameters a,b, and the * non-identity points on the curve are represented by (x,y) (the * 'affine coordinates') such that y^2 = x^3 + ax + b. * * The identity element of the curve's group is an additional 'point * at infinity', which is considered to be the third point on the * intersection of the curve with any vertical line. Hence, the * inverse of the point (x,y) is (x,-y). */ /* * Create and destroy Weierstrass curve data structures. The mandatory * parameters to the constructor are the prime modulus p, and the * curve parameters a,b. * * 'nonsquare_mod_p' is an optional extra parameter, only needed by * ecc_edwards_point_new_from_y which has to take a modular square * root. You can pass it as NULL if you don't need that function. */ WeierstrassCurve *ecc_weierstrass_curve( mp_int *p, mp_int *a, mp_int *b, mp_int *nonsquare_mod_p); void ecc_weierstrass_curve_free(WeierstrassCurve *); /* * Create points on a Weierstrass curve, given the curve. * * point_new_identity returns the special identity point. * point_new(x,y) returns the non-identity point with the given affine * coordinates. * * point_new_from_x constructs a non-identity point given only the * x-coordinate, by using the curve equation to work out what y has to * be. Of course the equation only tells you y^2, so it only * determines y up to sign; the parameter desired_y_parity controls * which of the two values of y you get, by saying whether you'd like * its minimal non-negative residue mod p to be even or odd. (Of * course, since p itself is odd, exactly one of y and p-y is odd.) * This function has to take a modular square root, so it will only * work if you passed in a non-square mod p when constructing the * curve. */ WeierstrassPoint *ecc_weierstrass_point_new_identity(WeierstrassCurve *curve); WeierstrassPoint *ecc_weierstrass_point_new( WeierstrassCurve *curve, mp_int *x, mp_int *y); WeierstrassPoint *ecc_weierstrass_point_new_from_x( WeierstrassCurve *curve, mp_int *x, unsigned desired_y_parity); /* Memory management: copy and free points. */ void ecc_weierstrass_point_copy_into( WeierstrassPoint *dest, WeierstrassPoint *src); WeierstrassPoint *ecc_weierstrass_point_copy(WeierstrassPoint *wc); void ecc_weierstrass_point_free(WeierstrassPoint *point); /* Check whether a point is actually on the curve. */ unsigned ecc_weierstrass_point_valid(WeierstrassPoint *); /* * Add two points and return their sum. This function is fully * general: it should do the right thing if the two inputs are the * same, or if either (or both) of the input points is the identity, * or if the two input points are inverses so the output is the * identity. However, it pays for that generality by being slower than * the special-purpose functions below.. */ WeierstrassPoint *ecc_weierstrass_add_general( WeierstrassPoint *, WeierstrassPoint *); /* * Fast but less general arithmetic functions: add two points on the * condition that they are not equal and neither is the identity, and * add a point to itself. */ WeierstrassPoint *ecc_weierstrass_add(WeierstrassPoint *, WeierstrassPoint *); WeierstrassPoint *ecc_weierstrass_double(WeierstrassPoint *); /* * Compute an integer multiple of a point. Not guaranteed to work * unless the integer argument is less than the order of the point in * the group (because it won't cope if an identity element shows up in * any intermediate product). */ WeierstrassPoint *ecc_weierstrass_multiply(WeierstrassPoint *, mp_int *); /* * Query functions to get the value of a point back out. is_identity * tells you whether the point is the identity; if it isn't, then * get_affine will retrieve one or both of its affine coordinates. * (You can pass NULL as either output pointer, if you don't need that * coordinate as output.) */ unsigned ecc_weierstrass_is_identity(WeierstrassPoint *wp); void ecc_weierstrass_get_affine(WeierstrassPoint *wp, mp_int **x, mp_int **y); /* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Montgomery curves. * * A curve in this form is defined by two parameters a,b, and the * curve equation is by^2 = x^3 + ax^2 + x. * * As with Weierstrass curves, there's an additional point at infinity * that is the identity element, and the inverse of (x,y) is (x,-y). * * However, we don't actually work with full (x,y) pairs. We just * store the x-coordinate (so what we're really representing is not a * specific point on the curve but a two-point set {P,-P}). This means * you can't quite do point addition, because if you're given {P,-P} * and {Q,-Q} as input, you can work out a pair of x-coordinates that * are those of P-Q and P+Q, but you don't know which is which. * * Instead, the basic operation is 'differential addition', in which * you are given three parameters P, Q and P-Q and you return P+Q. (As * well as disambiguating which of the possible answers you want, that * extra input also enables a fast formulae for computing it. This * fast formula is more or less why Montgomery curves are useful in * the first place.) * * Doubling a point is still possible to do unambiguously, so you can * still compute an integer multiple of P if you start by making 2P * and then doing a series of differential additions. */ /* * Create and destroy Montgomery curve data structures. */ MontgomeryCurve *ecc_montgomery_curve(mp_int *p, mp_int *a, mp_int *b); void ecc_montgomery_curve_free(MontgomeryCurve *); /* * Create, copy and free points on the curve. We don't need to * explicitly represent the identity for this application. */ MontgomeryPoint *ecc_montgomery_point_new(MontgomeryCurve *mc, mp_int *x); void ecc_montgomery_point_copy_into( MontgomeryPoint *dest, MontgomeryPoint *src); MontgomeryPoint *ecc_montgomery_point_copy(MontgomeryPoint *orig); void ecc_montgomery_point_free(MontgomeryPoint *mp); /* * Basic arithmetic routines: differential addition and point- * doubling. Each of these assumes that no special cases come up - no * input or output point should be the identity, and in diff_add, P * and Q shouldn't be the same. */ MontgomeryPoint *ecc_montgomery_diff_add( MontgomeryPoint *P, MontgomeryPoint *Q, MontgomeryPoint *PminusQ); MontgomeryPoint *ecc_montgomery_double(MontgomeryPoint *P); /* * Compute an integer multiple of a point. */ MontgomeryPoint *ecc_montgomery_multiply(MontgomeryPoint *, mp_int *); /* * Return the affine x-coordinate of a point. */ void ecc_montgomery_get_affine(MontgomeryPoint *mp, mp_int **x); /* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Twisted Edwards curves. * * A curve in this form is defined by two parameters d,a, and the * curve equation is a x^2 + y^2 = 1 + d x^2 y^2. * * Apparently if you ask a proper algebraic geometer they'll tell you * that this is technically not an actual elliptic curve. Certainly it * doesn't work quite the same way as the other kinds: in this form, * there is no need for a point at infinity, because the identity * element is represented by the affine coordinates (0,1). And you * invert a point by negating its x rather than y coordinate: the * inverse of (x,y) is (-x,y). * * The usefulness of this representation is that the addition formula * is 'strongly unified', meaning that the same formula works for any * input and output points, without needing special cases for the * identity or for doubling. */ /* * Create and destroy Edwards curve data structures. * * Similarly to ecc_weierstrass_curve, you don't have to provide * nonsquare_mod_p if you don't need ecc_edwards_point_new_from_y. */ EdwardsCurve *ecc_edwards_curve( mp_int *p, mp_int *d, mp_int *a, mp_int *nonsquare_mod_p); void ecc_edwards_curve_free(EdwardsCurve *); /* * Create points. * * There's no need to have a separate function to create the identity * point, because you can just pass x=0 and y=1 to the usual function. * * Similarly to the Weierstrass curve, ecc_edwards_point_new_from_y * creates a point given only its y-coordinate and the desired parity * of its x-coordinate, and you can only call it if you provided the * optional nonsquare_mod_p argument when creating the curve. */ EdwardsPoint *ecc_edwards_point_new( EdwardsCurve *curve, mp_int *x, mp_int *y); EdwardsPoint *ecc_edwards_point_new_from_y( EdwardsCurve *curve, mp_int *y, unsigned desired_x_parity); /* Copy and free points. */ void ecc_edwards_point_copy_into(EdwardsPoint *dest, EdwardsPoint *src); EdwardsPoint *ecc_edwards_point_copy(EdwardsPoint *ec); void ecc_edwards_point_free(EdwardsPoint *point); /* * Arithmetic: add two points, and calculate an integer multiple of a * point. */ EdwardsPoint *ecc_edwards_add(EdwardsPoint *, EdwardsPoint *); EdwardsPoint *ecc_edwards_multiply(EdwardsPoint *, mp_int *); /* * Query functions: compare two points for equality, and return the * affine coordinates of a point. */ unsigned ecc_edwards_eq(EdwardsPoint *, EdwardsPoint *); void ecc_edwards_get_affine(EdwardsPoint *wp, mp_int **x, mp_int **y); #endif /* PUTTY_ECC_H */