This change saves several EC routines from crashing when an EC_KEY is
missing a public key. The public key is optional in the EC private key
format and, without this patch, running the following through `openssl
ec` causes a crash:
-----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY-----
MBkCAQEECAECAwQFBgcIoAoGCCqGSM49AwEH
-----END EC PRIVATE KEY-----
Ensure that, when generating small primes, the result is actually of the
requested size. Fixes OpenSSL #2701.
This change does not address the cases of generating safe primes, or
where the |add| parameter is non-NULL.
(The issue was reported by Shay Gueron.)
The final reduction in Montgomery multiplication computes if (X >= m) then X =
X - m else X = X
In OpenSSL, this was done by computing T = X - m, doing a constant-time
selection of the *addresses* of X and T, and loading from the resulting
address. But this is not cache-neutral.
This patch changes the behaviour by loading both X and T into registers, and
doing a constant-time selection of the *values*.
TODO(fork): only some of the fixes from the original patch still apply to
the 1.0.2 code.
Initial fork from f2d678e6e89b6508147086610e985d4e8416e867 (1.0.2 beta).
(This change contains substantial changes from the original and
effectively starts a new history.)
