These functions already require their inputs to be reduced mod N (or, in
some cases, bounded by R or N*R), so negative numbers are nonsense. The
code still attempted to account for them by working on the absolute
value and fiddling with the sign bit. (The output would be in range (-N,
N) instead of [0, N).)
This complicates relaxing bn_correct_top because bn_correct_top is also
used to prevent storing a negative zero. Instead, just reject negative
inputs.
Upgrade-Note: These functions are public API, so some callers may
notice. Code search suggests there is only one caller outside
BoringSSL, and it looks fine.
Bug: 232
Change-Id: Ieba3acbb36b0ff6b72b8ed2b14882ec9b88e4665
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/25249
Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
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