public static RangeProof range_proof(this Secp256K1 self, ulong min, ulong value, SecretKey blind,
Commitment commit, ProofMessage message)
{
var retried = false;
var proof = new byte[Constants.Constants.MaxProofSize];
var plen = Constants.Constants.MaxProofSize;
// IntPtr proofPtr= Marshal.AllocHGlobal(proof.Length);
var proofPtr = Marshal.AllocCoTaskMem(plen);
Marshal.Copy(proof, 0, proofPtr, proof.Length);
// Marshal.Copy(proof, 0, proofPtr, proof.Length);
// use a "known key" as the nonce, specifically the blinding factor
// of the commitment for which we are generating the range proof
// so we can later recover the value and the message by unwinding the range proof
// with the same nonce
var nonce = blind.Clone();
var extraCommit = ByteUtil.Get_bytes(0, 33);
// TODO - confirm this reworked retry logic works as expected
// pretty sure the original approach retried on success (so twice in total)
// and just kept looping forever on error
do
{
var success = Proxy.secp256k1_rangeproof_sign(
self.Ctx,
proofPtr,
ref plen,
min,
commit.Value,
blind.Value,
nonce.Value,
0,
64,
value,
message.Value,
message.Value.Length,
extraCommit,
0,
Constants.Constants.GeneratorH) == 1;
if (success || retried)
{
break;
}
retried = true;
} while (true);
var proof2 = new byte[plen];
Marshal.Copy(proofPtr, proof2, 0, plen);
Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem(proofPtr);
return(new RangeProof(proof2, plen));
}
/// *** This is a temporary work-around. ***
/// We do not know which of the two possible public keys from the commit to use,
/// so here we try both of them and succeed if either works.
/// This is sub-optimal in terms of performance.
/// I believe apoelstra has a strategy for fixing this in the secp256k1-zkp lib.
public static void verify_from_commit(this Secp256K1 self, Message msg, Signiture sig, Commitment commit)
{
if (self.Caps != ContextFlag.Commit)
{
throw new Exception("IncapableContext");
}
// If we knew which one we cared about here we would just use it,
// but for now return both so we can try them both.
var pubkeys = commit.to_two_pubkeys(self);
// Attempt to verify with the first public key,
// if verify fails try the other one.
// The first will fail on average 50% of the time.
try
{
self.Verify(msg, sig, pubkeys[0]);
}
catch (Exception)
{
self.Verify(msg, sig, pubkeys[1]);
}
}