tree 0a492ac9b939081d29e3bf157b7a81e95f01c824
parent a838f9dc7e6cc091237f0acbbe4953104104e815
author David Benjamin <davidben@google.com> 1510618528 +0800
committer Adam Langley <agl@google.com> 1511391113 +0000

Don't use BN_nnmod to convert from field element to scalar.

Hasse's theorem implies at most one subtraction is necessary. This is
still using BIGNUM for now because field elements
(EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates_GFp) are BIGNUMs.

This gives an additional 2% speedup for signing.

Before:
Did 16000 ECDSA P-224 signing operations in 1064799us (15026.3 ops/sec)
Did 19000 ECDSA P-256 signing operations in 1007839us (18852.2 ops/sec)
Did 1078 ECDSA P-384 signing operations in 1079413us (998.7 ops/sec)
Did 484 ECDSA P-521 signing operations in 1083616us (446.7 ops/sec)

After:
Did 16000 ECDSA P-224 signing operations in 1054918us (15167.1 ops/sec)
Did 20000 ECDSA P-256 signing operations in 1037338us (19280.1 ops/sec)
Did 1045 ECDSA P-384 signing operations in 1049073us (996.1 ops/sec)
Did 484 ECDSA P-521 signing operations in 1085492us (445.9 ops/sec)

Change-Id: I2bfe214f968eca7a8e317928c0f3daf1a14bca90
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/23076
Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>