Add a helper function bigint_swap() that can be used to conditionally
swap a pair of big integers in constant time.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Big integers may be efficiently copied using bigint_shrink() (which
will always copy only the size of the destination integer), but this
is potentially confusing to a reader of the code.
Provide bigint_copy() as an alias for bigint_shrink() so that the
intention of the calling code may be more obvious.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Big integer multiplication is currently used only as part of modular
exponentiation, where both multiplicand and multiplier will be the
same size.
Relax this requirement to allow for the use of big integer
multiplication in other contexts.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
bigint_mod_multiply() and bigint_mod_exp() require a fixed amount of
temporary storage for intermediate results. (The amount of temporary
storage required depends upon the size of the integers involved.)
When performing calculations for 4096-bit RSA the amount of temporary
storage space required will exceed 2.5kB, which is too much to
allocate on the stack. Avoid this problem by forcing the caller to
allocate temporary storage.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
