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Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Rosenberg
9b166b75e0
Update to new Scalar API (#293)
* Updated to new curve25519 scalar API

* Made ExpandedSecretKey.scalar_bytes unclamped; clamping occurs in all scalar-point multiplication

* Added legacy compat deprecation notice

* Removed deprecation notice on check_scalar

* Removed unnecessary unwraps
2023-06-12 00:06:00 -04:00
Tony Arcieri
c8c9f29989
Add Scalar and MontgomeryPoint conversions (#296)
* Add `Scalar` and `MontgomeryPoint` conversions

- Adds `SigningKey::to_scalar` to extract the private scalar
- Adds `VerifyingKey::to_montgomery` to map the verifying key's
  `EdwardsPoint` to a `MontgomeryPoint`
- Also adds corresponding `From<&T>` impls which call the inherent
  methods.

This is useful for systems which are keyed using Ed25519 keys which
would like to use X25519 for D-H. Having inherent methods means it's
possible to call these methods without having to import `Scalar` and
`MontgomeryPoint` from `curve25519-dalek`.

This is of course a bit circuitous: we could just multiply `Scalar` by
`EdwardsPoint` and use the resulting `EdwardsPoint` as the D-H shared
secret, however it seems many protocols have adopted this approach of
mapping to `MontgomeryPoint` and using that for the shared secret, since
X25519 is traditionally used for ECDH with Curve25519.

* Add reference to eprint 2021/509

* Basic X25519 Diffie-Hellman test
2023-03-30 13:29:36 -04:00