LibCrypto: Remove the concept of invalid big integers

This concept is rarely used in codebase and very much error-prone
if you forget to check it.

Instead, make it so that operations that would produce invalid integers
return an error instead.
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devgianlu 2025-04-25 21:28:00 +02:00 committed by Jelle Raaijmakers
parent 14387e5411
commit 5f1a30197c
Notes: github-actions[bot] 2025-04-28 10:06:55 +00:00
12 changed files with 34 additions and 109 deletions

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@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ void UnsignedBigIntegerAlgorithms::montgomery_modular_power_with_minimal_allocat
// Note : Since we were using "almost montgomery" multiplications, we aren't guaranteed to be under the modulo already.
// So, if we're here, we need to respect the modulo.
// We can, however, start by trying to subtract the modulo, just in case we're close.
subtract_without_allocation(zz, modulo, result);
MUST(subtract_without_allocation(zz, modulo, result));
if (modulo < zz) {
// Note: This branch shouldn't happen in theory (as noted in https://github.com/rust-num/num-bigint/blob/master/src/biguint/monty.rs#L210)