Fix various mistakes in ec_GFp_nistp_recode_scalar_bits comment.
Change-Id: I9b94e2da1bdf83a51b3dc219c154c5706e493e85
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/c/boringssl/+/36244
Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
diff --git a/crypto/fipsmodule/ec/util.c b/crypto/fipsmodule/ec/util.c
index 7303a15..8951203 100644
--- a/crypto/fipsmodule/ec/util.c
+++ b/crypto/fipsmodule/ec/util.c
@@ -43,13 +43,13 @@
// of a nonnegative integer (b_k in {0, 1}), rewrite it in digits 0, 1, -1
// by using bit-wise subtraction as follows:
//
-// b_k b_(k-1) ... b_2 b_1 b_0
-// - b_k ... b_3 b_2 b_1 b_0
-// -------------------------------------
-// s_k b_(k-1) ... s_3 s_2 s_1 s_0
+// b_k b_(k-1) ... b_2 b_1 b_0
+// - b_k ... b_3 b_2 b_1 b_0
+// -----------------------------------------
+// s_(k+1) s_k ... s_3 s_2 s_1 s_0
//
// A left-shift followed by subtraction of the original value yields a new
-// representation of the same value, using signed bits s_i = b_(i+1) - b_i.
+// representation of the same value, using signed bits s_i = b_(i-1) - b_i.
// This representation from Booth's paper has since appeared in the
// literature under a variety of different names including "reversed binary
// form", "alternating greedy expansion", "mutual opposite form", and
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
// (1961), pp. 67-91), in a radix-2^5 setting. That is, we always combine five
// signed bits into a signed digit:
//
-// s_(4j + 4) s_(4j + 3) s_(4j + 2) s_(4j + 1) s_(4j)
+// s_(5j + 4) s_(5j + 3) s_(5j + 2) s_(5j + 1) s_(5j)
//
// The sign-alternating property implies that the resulting digit values are
// integers from -16 to 16.
@@ -81,14 +81,14 @@
// Of course, we don't actually need to compute the signed digits s_i as an
// intermediate step (that's just a nice way to see how this scheme relates
// to the wNAF): a direct computation obtains the recoded digit from the
-// six bits b_(4j + 4) ... b_(4j - 1).
+// six bits b_(5j + 4) ... b_(5j - 1).
//
-// This function takes those five bits as an integer (0 .. 63), writing the
+// This function takes those six bits as an integer (0 .. 63), writing the
// recoded digit to *sign (0 for positive, 1 for negative) and *digit (absolute
-// value, in the range 0 .. 8). Note that this integer essentially provides the
-// input bits "shifted to the left" by one position: for example, the input to
-// compute the least significant recoded digit, given that there's no bit b_-1,
-// has to be b_4 b_3 b_2 b_1 b_0 0.
+// value, in the range 0 .. 16). Note that this integer essentially provides
+// the input bits "shifted to the left" by one position: for example, the input
+// to compute the least significant recoded digit, given that there's no bit
+// b_-1, has to be b_4 b_3 b_2 b_1 b_0 0.
void ec_GFp_nistp_recode_scalar_bits(uint8_t *sign, uint8_t *digit,
uint8_t in) {
uint8_t s, d;
