gcry_mpi_invm succeeds if the inverse does not exist
NIIBE Yutaka
gniibe at fsij.org
Tue Apr 14 08:32:06 CEST 2020
Hello,
Thank you for your report with a test case. It helps a lot.
Guido Vranken wrote:
> This is not in accordance with the documentation:
>
> Function: int gcry_mpi_invm (gcry_mpi_t x, gcry_mpi_t a, gcry_mpi_t m)
> Set x to the multiplicative inverse of a \bmod m. Return true if the
> inverse exists.
Indeed. It seems that API was changed to return the result
(success/failure) in libgcrypt 1.3.2 in 2007. Before that, the API was
void (no return value). Since the initial change, it never returns
correct value.
I'll fix for 1.9.
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