[noise] generated go from noise-explorer uses deprecated point multiplication

Yawning Angel yawning at schwanenlied.me
Fri Aug 13 15:34:45 PDT 2021


On 8/13/21 10:00 PM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote:
> Noise Explorer author here. I’ll take a close look at this tomorrow. Thanks for your patience everyone.
There really isn't much to look at.  The new API is more ergonomic, but
forces contributory behavior by checking if the output is a low-order
point, and spits out an error.  RFC 7748 has this check as a MAY.  The
noise spec prefers not having the check (which is what the deprecated
API does).

As an aside, I misspoke about the parts of the spec, dummy psks don't
have anything to do with this,  Sorry it's been a while since I've
thought about this.  I seem to vaguely recall years ago, some explicit
use case that involved sending the neutral element, but I might just be
confused.

Regards,

-- 
Yawning Angel

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