Add failure case to secp256k1_generator_generate_interal #283
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The implementation of shallue_van_de_woestijne currently returns an off-curve point when given a value of t. While this is cryptographically impossible to occur, none-the-less we should fail in this case rather than simply return a garbage value.
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This fixes issue #279 using method (B) by having No however this "fix" still results in computations proceeding with off-curve points, which is somewhere between "strongly discouraged" and "a violation of the preconditions of the secp256k1 operations". For an alternative solution see #284. |
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Merged alternative fix #286. |
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The implementation of shallue_van_de_woestijne currently returns an off-curve point when given a value of t.
While this is cryptographically impossible to occur, none-the-less we should fail in this case rather than simply return a garbage value.