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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-07 17:32:43 +0000
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+# HACKING -*- org -*-
+#+TITLE: Hacking notes for Libgcrypt
+#+STARTUP: showall
+
+* How to contribute
+
+ The following stuff explains some basic procedures you need to
+ follow if you want to contribute code or documentation.
+
+** No more ChangeLog files
+
+ Do not modify any of the ChangeLog files in Libgcrypt. Starting on
+ December 1st, 2011 we put change information only in the GIT commit
+ log, and generate a top-level ChangeLog file from logs at "make
+ dist" time. As such, there are strict requirements on the form of
+ the commit log messages. The old ChangeLog files have all be
+ renamed to ChangeLog-2011
+
+** Commit log requirements
+
+ Your commit log should always start with a one-line summary, the
+ second line should be blank, and the remaining lines are usually
+ ChangeLog-style entries for all affected files. However, it's fine
+ -- even recommended -- to write a few lines of prose describing the
+ change, when the summary and ChangeLog entries don't give enough of
+ the big picture. Omit the leading TABs that you're used to seeing
+ in a "real" ChangeLog file, but keep the maximum line length at 72
+ or smaller, so that the generated ChangeLog lines, each with its
+ leading TAB, will not exceed 80 columns.
+
+** License policy
+
+ Libgcrypt is currently licensed under the LGPLv2+ with tools and the
+ manual being under the GPLv2+. We may eventually update to a newer
+ version of the licenses or a combination of them. It is thus
+ important, that all contributed code allows for an update of the
+ license; for example we can't accept code under the LGPLv2(only).
+
+ Libgcrypt used to have a strict policy of requiring copyright
+ assignments to the FSF. To avoid this major organizational overhead
+ and to allow inclusion of code, not copyrighted by the FSF, this
+ policy has been relaxed. It is now also possible to contribute code
+ by asserting that the contribution is in accordance to the
+ "Libgcrypt Developer's Certificate of Origin" as found in the file
+ "DCO". (Except for a slight wording change, this DCO is identical
+ to the one used by the Linux kernel.)
+
+ If your want to contribute code or documentation to Libgcrypt and
+ you didn't signed a copyright assignment with the FSF in the past,
+ you need to take these simple steps:
+
+ - Decide which mail address you want to use. Please have your real
+ name in the address and not a pseudonym. Anonymous contributions
+ can only be done if you find a proxy who certifies for you.
+
+ - If your employer or school might claim ownership of code written
+ by you; you need to talk to them to make sure that you have the
+ right to contribute under the DCO.
+
+ - Send an OpenPGP signed mail to the gcrypt-devel@gnupg.org mailing
+ list from your mail address. Include a copy of the DCO as found
+ in the official master branch. Insert your name and email address
+ into the DCO in the same way you want to use it later. Example:
+
+ Signed-off-by: Joe R. Hacker <joe@example.org>
+
+ (If you really need it, you may perform simple transformations of
+ the mail address: Replacing "@" by " at " or "." by " dot ".)
+
+ - That's it. From now on you only need to add a "Signed-off-by:"
+ line with your name and mail address to the commit message. It is
+ recommended to send the patches using a PGP/MIME signed mail.
+
+** Coding standards
+
+ Please follow the GNU coding standards. If you are in doubt consult
+ the existing code as an example. Do no re-indent code without a
+ need. If you really need to do it, use a separate commit for such a
+ change.
+
+
+* Porting hints
+** Taking optimized MPI code out of GMP:
+
+ I generated the pentium4/* files by glueing the existing assembler
+ prologues to the GMP 4.2.1 assembler files generated with the m4
+ tool in GMP's build process, for example:
+
+ $ m4 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D__GMP_WITHIN_GMP -DOPERATION_rshift -DPIC \
+ rshift.asm >tmp-rshift.s
+
+ Then tmp-rshift will contain the assembler instructions for the
+ configured platform. Unfortunately, this way the comments are lost.
+ For most files I re-inserted some of the comments, but this is
+ tedious work.
+
+
+* Debug hints
+
+** Debugging math stuff:
+
+ While debugging the ECC code in libgcrypt, I was in need for some
+ computer algebra system which would allow me to verify the numbers
+ in the debugging easily. I found that PARI (pari-gp package in
+ Debian) has support for elliptic curves. The below commands shows
+ how they are set up and used with an example.
+
+ ===8<========
+ hextodec(s)=local(v=Vec(s),a=10,b=11,c=12,d=13,e=14,f=15,A=10,B=11,C=12,D=13,E=14,F=15,h);if(#setunion(Set(v),Vec("0123456789ABCDEFabcdef"))>22,error);for(i=1,#v,h=shift(h,4)+eval(v[i]));h
+
+ p = hextodec("01FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF")
+ a = hextodec("01FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFC")
+ b = hextodec("51953EB9618E1C9A1F929A21A0B68540EEA2DA725B99B315F3B8B489918EF109E156193951EC7E937B1652C0BD3BB1BF073573DF883D2C34F1EF451FD46B503F00")
+
+ /* Set up y^2 = x^3 + ax + b mod (p). */
+ e = ellinit(Mod(1,p)*[0,0,0,a,b]);
+
+ gx = hextodec ("00C6858E06B70404E9CD9E3ECB662395B4429C648139053FB521F828AF606B4D3DBAA14B5E77EFE75928FE1DC127A2FFA8DE3348B3C1856A429BF97E7E31C2E5BD66")
+ gy = hextodec ("011839296A789A3BC0045C8A5FB42C7D1BD998F54449579B446817AFBD17273E662C97EE72995EF42640C550B9013FAD0761353C7086A272C24088BE94769FD16650")
+ g = Mod(1,p)*[gx,gy]
+
+ n = hextodec ("01FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFA51868783BF2F966B7FCC0148F709A5D03BB5C9B8899C47AEBB6FB71E91386409")
+
+ /* Verify that G is on the curve, and that n is the order. */
+ ellisoncurve (e,g)
+ isprime (n)
+ ellpow (e,g,n)
+
+ d = hextodec ("018F9573F25059571BDF614529953DE2540497CEDABD04F3AF78813BED7BB163A2FD919EECF822848FCA39EF55E500F8CE861C7D53D371857F7774B79428E887F81B")
+
+ qx = hextodec ("00316AAAD3E905875938F588BD9E8A4785EF9BDB76D62A83A5340F82CB8E800B25619F5C3EA02B7A4FA43D7497C7702F7DFBEAC8E8F92C3CAABD9F84182FDA391B3B")
+ /* Note: WRONG! (It is apparent that this is the same as X shifted by
+ 8 bit). */
+ qy = hextodec ("0000316AAAD3E905875938F588BD9E8A4785EF9BDB76D62A83A5340F82CB8E800B25619F5C3EA02B7A4FA43D7497C7702F7DFBEAC8E8F92C3CAABD9F84182FDA391B")
+ q = Mod(1,p)*[qx,qy]
+
+ /* Calculate what Q should be given d. */
+ ellpow (e,g,d)
+
+ /* This is not 0 and thus shows that libgcrypt gave Q and d that do
+ not match. */
+ ellpow (e,g,d) - q
+ ====8<=====================