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As the patent on the GLV optimization has expired, there is no need to keep the slower non-endomorphism code around anymore.

@sipa sipa force-pushed the 202009_endo_endo_endo branch 2 times, most recently from e199824 to a523e2c Compare September 26, 2020 03:47
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elichai commented Sep 26, 2020

There's nothing I love more than a PR that only deletes code :)

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sipa commented Sep 26, 2020

There's nothing I love more than a PR that only deletes code :)

Hey it also improves some comments.

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elichai commented Sep 26, 2020

tACK a523e2c

two nits:

  1. Can you also remove from here: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/blob/master/contrib/travis.sh#L16
  2. Can you update the README to remove the "optionally":

Optionally (off by default) use secp256k1's efficiently-computable endomorphism to split the P multiplicand into 2 half-sized ones.

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practicalswift commented Sep 26, 2020

ACK a523e2c (modulo merge conflict): diff looks correct

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sipa commented Sep 26, 2020

Rebased, and:

  1. Can you also remove from here: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/blob/master/contrib/travis.sh#L16
  2. Can you update the README to remove the "optionally":

Done.

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gmaxwell commented Sep 26, 2020

Looks good to me, endo only increases a stripped Os build for me by 456 bytes-- so insignificant esp with respect to the performance difference, so I don't see any reason to keep the other code around even for code size constrained applications (you can get 456 bytes of savings in other ways with less performance impact).

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46f9e0e patch diff LGTM

tarcieri added a commit to RustCrypto/elliptic-curves that referenced this pull request Sep 28, 2020
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k256: enable endomorphisms by default
4858cb0 
The reason this wasn't enabled-by-default before was due to a lingering
US patent. However, as noted on #211, that patent just expired 🎉

The `bitcoin-core/secp256k1` library is also pursuing a full switch to
endomorphisms: bitcoin-core/secp256k1#826

For now this commit just switches on the feature by default, but in the
future we can eventually rip out the non-endomorphism code and remove
the feature entirely.
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k256: enable endomorphisms by default (#213)
3ae2dd1 
The reason this wasn't enabled-by-default before was due to a lingering
US patent. However, as noted on #211, that patent just expired 🎉

The `bitcoin-core/secp256k1` library is also pursuing a full switch to
endomorphisms: bitcoin-core/secp256k1#826

For now this commit just switches on the feature by default, but in the
future we can eventually rip out the non-endomorphism code and remove
the feature entirely.
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practicalswift commented Sep 28, 2020

re-ACK 46f9e0e

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ACK 46f9e0e

Looks good to me, endo only increases a stripped Os build for me by 456 bytes-- so insignificant esp with respect to the performance difference

I agree. I also looked at it from that angle, but this is a negligible increase in code size. Not worth keeping an option around for.
(on RV64 there is no size difference for the stripped libsecp256k1.so.0.0.0 between master and master with this patch merged)

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elichai commented Sep 29, 2020

re-ACK 46f9e0e

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k256: remove non-endomorphism code
0db4e7e 
This code was previously gated under the `endomorphism-mul` feature due
to lingering concerns about the "GLV" patents, namely US7110538.

According to @pwuille, a patent attorney he works with has verified that
the patent is expired:

https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/1310639051393830912

Likewise non-endomorphism code is being removed from
`bitcoin-core/secp256k1`:

bitcoin-core/secp256k1#826

This commit does the same for `k256`: it removes all the
non-endomorphism code and feature gating from the endomorphism code,
making the `endomorphism-mul` feature a no-op.

We can remove the feature in the next SemVer-breaking release (v0.6.x)
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k256: remove non-endomorphism code (#217)
2b8ab1c 
This code was previously gated under the `endomorphism-mul` feature due
to lingering concerns about the "GLV" patents, namely US7110538.

According to @pwuille, a patent attorney he works with has verified that
the patent is expired:

https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/1310639051393830912

Likewise non-endomorphism code is being removed from
`bitcoin-core/secp256k1`:

bitcoin-core/secp256k1#826

This commit does the same for `k256`: it removes all the
non-endomorphism code and feature gating from the endomorphism code,
making the `endomorphism-mul` feature a no-op.

We can remove the feature in the next SemVer-breaking release (v0.6.x)
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benthecarman commented Oct 9, 2020

ACK 46f9e0e

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sipa commented Oct 10, 2020 •
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I'd like #822 in before this, as should have all assurances we can get that the lambda-split values indeed stay in range.

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sipa commented Oct 11, 2020

Closing this in favor of #830, which has it rebased on #822 and #825.

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Merge #830: Rip out non-endomorphism code + dependencies
c6b6b8f 
c582aba Consistency improvements to the comments (Pieter Wuille)
63c6b71 Reorder comments/function around scalar_split_lambda (Pieter Wuille)
2edc514 WNAF of lambda_split output has max size 129 (Pieter Wuille)
4232e5b Rip out non-endomorphism code (Pieter Wuille)
ebad841 Check correctness of lambda split without -DVERIFY (Gregory Maxwell)
fe7fc1f Make lambda constant accessible (Pieter Wuille)
9d2f2b4 Add tests to exercise lambda split near bounds (Pieter Wuille)
9aca2f7 Add secp256k1_split_lambda_verify (Russell O'Connor)
acab934 Detailed comments for secp256k1_scalar_split_lambda (Russell O'Connor)
76ed922 Increase precision of g1 and g2 (Russell O'Connor)
6173839 Switch to our own memcmp function (Tim Ruffing)

Pull request description:

  This is a rebased/combined version of the following pull requests/commits with minor changes:
  * #825 Switch to our own memcmp function
    * Modification: `secp256k1_memcmp_var` is marked static inline
    * Modification: also replace `memcmp` with `secp256k1_memcmp_var` in exhaustive tests
    * Modification: add reference to GCC bug 95189
  * #822 Increase precision of g1 and g2
    * Modification: use the new `secp256k1_memcmp_var` function instead of `memcmp` (see #822 (comment))
    * Modification: drop the " Allow secp256k1_split_lambda_verify to pass even in the presence of GCC bug https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=95189." commit, as it's dealt with using `secp256k1_memcmp_var`.
    * Modification: rename secp256k1_gej_mul_lambda -> secp256k1_ge_mul_lambda
  * A new commit that moves the `lambda` constant out of `secp256k1_scalar_split_lambda` and (`_verify`).
  * The test commit suggested here: #822 (comment)
    * Modification: use the new accessible `secp256k1_const_lambda` instead of duplicating it.
  * #826 Rip out non-endomorphism code
  * A new commit that reduces the size of the WNAF output to 129, as we now have proof that the split output is always 128 bits or less.
  * A new commit to more consistently use input:`k`, integer outputs:`k1`,`k2`, modulo n outputs:`r1`,`r2`

ACKs for top commit:
  real-or-random:
    ACK c582aba code inspection, some tests, verified the new g1/g2 constants
  jonasnick:
    ACK c582aba didn't verify the proof

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