Compilers are likely to generate shorter assembly for loops of the
form `while( cnt-- ) { ... }` rather than
`for( ; count >= X; count -= X ) { ... }`. (E.g. the latter needs
a subtract+compare+branch after each loop, while the former only
needs decrement+branch).
Signed-off-by: Hanno Becker <hanno.becker@arm.com>
Removing the trimming has significant memory impact. While it is clearly what
we want to do eventually for constant-time'ness, it should be fixed alongside
a strategy to contain the ramifications on memory usage.
Signed-off-by: Hanno Becker <hanno.becker@arm.com>
The variable is a local variable for the i386 bignum assembly only;
introduce it as part of the start/finish macros.
It can be noted that the variable is initialize to 0 within MULADDC_INIT,
so there are no data dependencies across blocks of MULADDC_INIT/CORE/STOP.
Signed-off-by: Hanno Becker <hanno.becker@arm.com>
The timing module might include time.h on its own when on
a suitable platform, even if MBEDTLS_HAVE_TIME is disabled.
Co-authored-by: Tom Cosgrove <tom.cosgrove@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Kurek <andrzej.kurek@arm.com>
Having such implementation might cause issues for those that
expect to have a working implementation.
Having a compile-time error is better in such case.
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Kurek <andrzej.kurek@arm.com>
A previous commit has changed the signature of mpi_mul_hlp, making the length
of the output explicit. This commit adjusts mpi_montmul() accordingly.
It also fixes a comment on the required size of the temporary value
passed to mpi_montmul() (but does not change the call-sites).
Signed-off-by: Hanno Becker <hanno.becker@arm.com>
A previous commit has changed the signature of mpi_mul_hlp(), making
the length of the output explicit.
This commit adjusts mbedtls_mpi_mul_int() to this change.
Along the way, we make the code simpler and more secure by not calculating
the minimal limb-size of A. A previous comment indicated that this was
functionally necessary because of the implementation of mpi_mul_hlp() --
if it ever was, it isn't anymore.
Signed-off-by: Hanno Becker <hanno.becker@arm.com>
The previous commit has changed the signature of mpi_mul_hlp(),
making the length of the output explicit.
This commit adjusts the call-site in mbedtls_mpi_mul_mpi() to
this new signature.
A notable change to the multiplication strategy had to be made:
mbedtls_mpi_mul_mpi() performs a simple row-wise schoolbook
multiplication, which however was so far computed iterating
rows from top to bottom. This leads to the undesirable consequence
that as lower rows are calculated and added to the temporary
result, carry chains can grow. It is simpler and faster to
iterate from bottom to top instead, as it is guaranteed that
there will be no carry when adding the next row to the previous
temporary result: The length of the output in each iteration
can be fixed to len(B)+1.
Signed-off-by: Hanno Becker <hanno.becker@arm.com>
