Merge #732: Retry if r is zero during signing

37ed51a7ea Make ecdsa_sig_sign constant-time again after reverting 25e3cfb (Tim Ruffing)
93d343bfc5 Revert "ecdsa_impl: replace scalar if-checks with VERIFY_CHECKs in ecdsa_sig_sign" (Tim Ruffing)

Pull request description:

ACKs for top commit:
  elichai:
    ACK 37ed51a7ea makes sense.
  jonasnick:
    ACK 37ed51a7ea

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Jonas Nick 2020-04-18 12:22:39 +00:00
commit 39198a03ea
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@ -288,10 +288,6 @@ static int secp256k1_ecdsa_sig_sign(const secp256k1_ecmult_gen_context *ctx, sec
secp256k1_fe_normalize(&r.y);
secp256k1_fe_get_b32(b, &r.x);
secp256k1_scalar_set_b32(sigr, b, &overflow);
/* These two conditions should be checked before calling */
VERIFY_CHECK(!secp256k1_scalar_is_zero(sigr));
VERIFY_CHECK(overflow == 0);
if (recid) {
/* The overflow condition is cryptographically unreachable as hitting it requires finding the discrete log
* of some P where P.x >= order, and only 1 in about 2^127 points meet this criteria.
@ -310,7 +306,10 @@ static int secp256k1_ecdsa_sig_sign(const secp256k1_ecmult_gen_context *ctx, sec
if (recid) {
*recid ^= high;
}
return !secp256k1_scalar_is_zero(sigs);
/* P.x = order is on the curve, so technically sig->r could end up being zero, which would be an invalid signature.
* This is cryptographically unreachable as hitting it requires finding the discrete log of P.x = N.
*/
return !secp256k1_scalar_is_zero(sigr) & !secp256k1_scalar_is_zero(sigs);
}
#endif /* SECP256K1_ECDSA_IMPL_H */