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Re: [tor-bugs] #8089 [Stegotorus]: Implement the handshake and key exchange as described in the paper

#8089: Implement the handshake and key exchange as described in the paper
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 Reporter:  vmon        |          Owner:  zwol
     Type:  defect      |         Status:  new 
 Priority:  critical    |      Milestone:      
Component:  Stegotorus  |        Version:      
 Keywords:              |         Parent:      
   Points:              |   Actualpoints:      
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Comment(by rransom):

 You can use Curve25519 instead of MÃller's binary curve -- 3 is a
 generator of the âtwistâ group; 4 generates the main group.

 For curve25519-donna, remove the part of `curve25519_donna` that masks the
 secret key bits.  The scalar-multiplication loop in curve25519-donna (as
 of commit 6c6251ead7366d4499856c543a2de3e3dfadc4e4) will correctly compute
 arbitrary multiples of a point without further changes.

 For '''all''' Curve25519 implementations, clear the high (2^255^) bit of
 the curve point before calling the scalar-multiply routine.
 curve25519-donna ignores that bit when âunpackingâ a coordinate-field
 element; DJB's software might not ignore it.  Clearing the bit should work
 with all implementations.

 Note that if you use ''any implementation other than curve25519-donna'',
 you'll need to both hack out any exponent-munging '''and''' look closely
 at the main loop to make sure it doesn't assume that the exponent has had
 the bit-munging DJB specifies applied to it.  (An implementation can save
 a small amount of time by skipping the differential addition in the last
 three iterations if the exponent is known to have its three low bits
 cleared.)

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