Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[email protected]> writes:
> I've checked it a bit further. Would the following on top of nettle be
> equivalent?
> void ecc_point_zeroize (struct ecc_point *p)
> {
> memset(p->p, 0, 2*ecc_size(p->ecc)*sizeof(mp_limb_t));
> /* or using ecc_size_a() be better here? */
> }
> void ecc_scalar_zeroize (struct ecc_scalar *s);
> {
> memset(s->p, 0, ecc_size(s->ecc)*sizeof(mp_limb_t));
> }
I think that should work fine. And using ecc_size_a seems to be
appropriate for the first function.
> Then the only change needed in nettle would be for those sizes to be
> documented.
Right, it seems all three ecc_size* functions are undocumented, and at
least ecc_size () and ecc_size_a () make sense for users.
Regards,
/Niels
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