Add little endian import to Bignum

The function `mbedtls_mpi_read_binary()` expects big endian byte order,
but we need to be able to read from little endian in some caseses. (For
example when handling keys corresponding to Montgomery curves.)

Used `echo xx | tac -rs .. | tr [a-z] [A-Z]` to transform the test data
to little endian and `echo "ibase=16;xx" | bc` to convert to decimal.
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Janos Follath 2019-02-13 10:28:28 +00:00
parent 3081629de4
commit a778a94b7d
4 changed files with 68 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -490,8 +490,24 @@ int mbedtls_mpi_read_binary( mbedtls_mpi *X, const unsigned char *buf,
size_t buflen );
/**
* \brief Export an MPI into unsigned big endian binary data
* of fixed size.
* \brief Import X from unsigned binary data, little endian
*
* \param X The destination MPI. This must point to an initialized MPI.
* \param buf The input buffer. This must be a readable buffer of length
* \p buflen Bytes.
* \param buflen The length of the input buffer \p p in Bytes.
*
* \return \c 0 if successful.
* \return #MBEDTLS_ERR_MPI_ALLOC_FAILED if memory allocation failed.
* \return Another negative error code on different kinds of failure.
*/
int mbedtls_mpi_read_binary_le( mbedtls_mpi *X,
const unsigned char *buf, size_t buflen );
/**
* \brief Export X into unsigned binary data, big endian.
* Always fills the whole buffer, which will start with zeros
* if the number is smaller.
*
* \param X The source MPI. This must point to an initialized MPI.
* \param buf The output buffer. This must be a writable buffer of length