// Copyright 2021 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package bigmod import ( "encoding/binary" "errors" "math/big" "math/bits" ) const ( // _W is the size in bits of our limbs. _W = bits.UintSize // _S is the size in bytes of our limbs. _S = _W / 8 ) // choice represents a constant-time boolean. The value of choice is always // either 1 or 0. We use an int instead of bool in order to make decisions in // constant time by turning it into a mask. type choice uint func not(c choice) choice { return 1 ^ c } const yes = choice(1) const no = choice(0) // ctMask is all 1s if on is yes, and all 0s otherwise. func ctMask(on choice) uint { return -uint(on) } // ctEq returns 1 if x == y, and 0 otherwise. The execution time of this // function does not depend on its inputs. func ctEq(x, y uint) choice { // If x != y, then either x - y or y - x will generate a carry. _, c1 := bits.Sub(x, y, 0) _, c2 := bits.Sub(y, x, 0) return not(choice(c1 | c2)) } // ctGeq returns 1 if x >= y, and 0 otherwise. The execution time of this // function does not depend on its inputs. func ctGeq(x, y uint) choice { // If x < y, then x - y generates a carry. _, carry := bits.Sub(x, y, 0) return not(choice(carry)) } // Nat represents an arbitrary natural number // // Each Nat has an announced length, which is the number of limbs it has stored. // Operations on this number are allowed to leak this length, but will not leak // any information about the values contained in those limbs. type Nat struct { // limbs is little-endian in base 2^W with W = bits.UintSize. limbs []uint } // preallocTarget is the size in bits of the numbers used to implement the most // common and most performant RSA key size. It's also enough to cover some of // the operations of key sizes up to 4096. const preallocTarget = 2048 const preallocLimbs = (preallocTarget + _W - 1) / _W // NewNat returns a new nat with a size of zero, just like new(Nat), but with // the preallocated capacity to hold a number of up to preallocTarget bits. // NewNat inlines, so the allocation can live on the stack. func NewNat() *Nat { limbs := make([]uint, 0, preallocLimbs) return &Nat{limbs} } // expand expands x to n limbs, leaving its value unchanged. func (x *Nat) expand(n int) *Nat { if len(x.limbs) > n { panic("bigmod: internal error: shrinking nat") } if cap(x.limbs) < n { newLimbs := make([]uint, n) copy(newLimbs, x.limbs) x.limbs = newLimbs return x } extraLimbs := x.limbs[len(x.limbs):n] for i := range extraLimbs { extraLimbs[i] = 0 } x.limbs = x.limbs[:n] return x } // reset returns a zero nat of n limbs, reusing x's storage if n <= cap(x.limbs). func (x *Nat) reset(n int) *Nat { if cap(x.limbs) < n { x.limbs = make([]uint, n) return x } for i := range x.limbs { x.limbs[i] = 0 } x.limbs = x.limbs[:n] return x } // set assigns x = y, optionally resizing x to the appropriate size. func (x *Nat) set(y *Nat) *Nat { x.reset(len(y.limbs)) copy(x.limbs, y.limbs) return x } // setBig assigns x = n, optionally resizing n to the appropriate size. // // The announced length of x is set based on the actual bit size of the input, // ignoring leading zeroes. func (x *Nat) setBig(n *big.Int) *Nat { limbs := n.Bits() x.reset(len(limbs)) for i := range limbs { x.limbs[i] = uint(limbs[i]) } return x } // Bytes returns x as a zero-extended big-endian byte slice. The size of the // slice will match the size of m. // // x must have the same size as m and it must be reduced modulo m. func (x *Nat) Bytes(m *Modulus) []byte { i := m.Size() bytes := make([]byte, i) for _, limb := range x.limbs { for j := 0; j < _S; j++ { i-- if i < 0 { if limb == 0 { break } panic("bigmod: modulus is smaller than nat") } bytes[i] = byte(limb) limb >>= 8 } } return bytes } // SetBytes assigns x = b, where b is a slice of big-endian bytes. // SetBytes returns an error if b >= m. // // The output will be resized to the size of m and overwritten. func (x *Nat) SetBytes(b []byte, m *Modulus) (*Nat, error) { if err := x.setBytes(b, m); err != nil { return nil, err } if x.cmpGeq(m.nat) == yes { return nil, errors.New("input overflows the modulus") } return x, nil } // SetOverflowingBytes assigns x = b, where b is a slice of big-endian bytes. // SetOverflowingBytes returns an error if b has a longer bit length than m, but // reduces overflowing values up to 2^⌈log2(m)⌉ - 1. // // The output will be resized to the size of m and overwritten. func (x *Nat) SetOverflowingBytes(b []byte, m *Modulus) (*Nat, error) { if err := x.setBytes(b, m); err != nil { return nil, err } leading := _W - bitLen(x.limbs[len(x.limbs)-1]) if leading < m.leading { return nil, errors.New("input overflows the modulus size") } x.maybeSubtractModulus(no, m) return x, nil } // bigEndianUint returns the contents of buf interpreted as a // big-endian encoded uint value. func bigEndianUint(buf []byte) uint { if _W == 64 { return uint(binary.BigEndian.Uint64(buf)) } return uint(binary.BigEndian.Uint32(buf)) } func (x *Nat) setBytes(b []byte, m *Modulus) error { x.resetFor(m) i, k := len(b), 0 for k < len(x.limbs) && i >= _S { x.limbs[k] = bigEndianUint(b[i-_S : i]) i -= _S k++ } for s := 0; s < _W && k < len(x.limbs) && i > 0; s += 8 { x.limbs[k] |= uint(b[i-1]) << s i-- } if i > 0 { return errors.New("input overflows the modulus size") } return nil } // Equal returns 1 if x == y, and 0 otherwise. // // Both operands must have the same announced length. func (x *Nat) Equal(y *Nat) choice { // Eliminate bounds checks in the loop. size := len(x.limbs) xLimbs := x.limbs[:size] yLimbs := y.limbs[:size] equal := yes for i := 0; i < size; i++ { equal &= ctEq(xLimbs[i], yLimbs[i]) } return equal } // IsZero returns 1 if x == 0, and 0 otherwise. func (x *Nat) IsZero() choice { // Eliminate bounds checks in the loop. size := len(x.limbs) xLimbs := x.limbs[:size] zero := yes for i := 0; i < size; i++ { zero &= ctEq(xLimbs[i], 0) } return zero } // cmpGeq returns 1 if x >= y, and 0 otherwise. // // Both operands must have the same announced length. func (x *Nat) cmpGeq(y *Nat) choice { // Eliminate bounds checks in the loop. size := len(x.limbs) xLimbs := x.limbs[:size] yLimbs := y.limbs[:size] var c uint for i := 0; i < size; i++ { _, c = bits.Sub(xLimbs[i], yLimbs[i], c) } // If there was a carry, then subtracting y underflowed, so // x is not greater than or equal to y. return not(choice(c)) } // assign sets x <- y if on == 1, and does nothing otherwise. // // Both operands must have the same announced length. func (x *Nat) assign(on choice, y *Nat) *Nat { // Eliminate bounds checks in the loop. size := len(x.limbs) xLimbs := x.limbs[:size] yLimbs := y.limbs[:size] mask := ctMask(on) for i := 0; i < size; i++ { xLimbs[i] ^= mask & (xLimbs[i] ^ yLimbs[i]) } return x } // add computes x += y and returns the carry. // // Both operands must have the same announced length. func (x *Nat) add(y *Nat) (c uint) { // Eliminate bounds checks in the loop. size := len(x.limbs) xLimbs := x.limbs[:size] yLimbs := y.limbs[:size] for i := 0; i < size; i++ { xLimbs[i], c = bits.Add(xLimbs[i], yLimbs[i], c) } return } // sub computes x -= y. It returns the borrow of the subtraction. // // Both operands must have the same announced length. func (x *Nat) sub(y *Nat) (c uint) { // Eliminate bounds checks in the loop. size := len(x.limbs) xLimbs := x.limbs[:size] yLimbs := y.limbs[:size] for i := 0; i < size; i++ { xLimbs[i], c = bits.Sub(xLimbs[i], yLimbs[i], c) } return } // Modulus is used for modular arithmetic, precomputing relevant constants. // // Moduli are assumed to be odd numbers. Moduli can also leak the exact // number of bits needed to store their value, and are stored without padding. // // Their actual value is still kept secret. type Modulus struct { // The underlying natural number for this modulus. // // This will be stored without any padding, and shouldn't alias with any // other natural number being used. nat *Nat leading int // number of leading zeros in the modulus m0inv uint // -nat.limbs[0]⁻¹ mod _W rr *Nat // R*R for montgomeryRepresentation } // rr returns R*R with R = 2^(_W * n) and n = len(m.nat.limbs). func rr(m *Modulus) *Nat { rr := NewNat().ExpandFor(m) n := uint(len(rr.limbs)) mLen := uint(m.BitLen()) logR := _W * n // We start by computing R = 2^(_W * n) mod m. We can get pretty close, to // 2^⌊log₂m⌋, by setting the highest bit we can without having to reduce. rr.limbs[n-1] = 1 << ((mLen - 1) % _W) // Then we double until we reach 2^(_W * n). for i := mLen - 1; i < logR; i++ { rr.Add(rr, m) } // Next we need to get from R to 2^(_W * n) R mod m (aka from one to R in // the Montgomery domain, meaning we can use Montgomery multiplication now). // We could do that by doubling _W * n times, or with a square-and-double // chain log2(_W * n) long. Turns out the fastest thing is to start out with // doublings, and switch to square-and-double once the exponent is large // enough to justify the cost of the multiplications. // The threshold is selected experimentally as a linear function of n. threshold := n / 4 // We calculate how many of the most-significant bits of the exponent we can // compute before crossing the threshold, and we do it with doublings. i := bits.UintSize for logR>>i <= threshold { i-- } for k := uint(0); k < logR>>i; k++ { rr.Add(rr, m) } // Then we process the remaining bits of the exponent with a // square-and-double chain. for i > 0 { rr.montgomeryMul(rr, rr, m) i-- if logR>>i&1 != 0 { rr.Add(rr, m) } } return rr } // minusInverseModW computes -x⁻¹ mod _W with x odd. // // This operation is used to precompute a constant involved in Montgomery // multiplication. func minusInverseModW(x uint) uint { // Every iteration of this loop doubles the least-significant bits of // correct inverse in y. The first three bits are already correct (1⁻¹ = 1, // 3⁻¹ = 3, 5⁻¹ = 5, and 7⁻¹ = 7 mod 8), so doubling five times is enough // for 64 bits (and wastes only one iteration for 32 bits). // // See https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/47496. y := x for i := 0; i < 5; i++ { y = y * (2 - x*y) } return -y } // NewModulusFromBig creates a new Modulus from a [big.Int]. // // The Int must be odd. The number of significant bits (and nothing else) is // leaked through timing side-channels. func NewModulusFromBig(n *big.Int) (*Modulus, error) { if b := n.Bits(); len(b) == 0 { return nil, errors.New("modulus must be >= 0") } else if b[0]&1 != 1 { return nil, errors.New("modulus must be odd") } m := &Modulus{} m.nat = NewNat().setBig(n) m.leading = _W - bitLen(m.nat.limbs[len(m.nat.limbs)-1]) m.m0inv = minusInverseModW(m.nat.limbs[0]) m.rr = rr(m) return m, nil } // bitLen is a version of bits.Len that only leaks the bit length of n, but not // its value. bits.Len and bits.LeadingZeros use a lookup table for the // low-order bits on some architectures. func bitLen(n uint) int { var len int // We assume, here and elsewhere, that comparison to zero is constant time // with respect to different non-zero values. for n != 0 { len++ n >>= 1 } return len } // Size returns the size of m in bytes. func (m *Modulus) Size() int { return (m.BitLen() + 7) / 8 } // BitLen returns the size of m in bits. func (m *Modulus) BitLen() int { return len(m.nat.limbs)*_W - int(m.leading) } // Nat returns m as a Nat. The return value must not be written to. func (m *Modulus) Nat() *Nat { return m.nat } // shiftIn calculates x = x << _W + y mod m. // // This assumes that x is already reduced mod m. func (x *Nat) shiftIn(y uint, m *Modulus) *Nat { d := NewNat().resetFor(m) // Eliminate bounds checks in the loop. size := len(m.nat.limbs) xLimbs := x.limbs[:size] dLimbs := d.limbs[:size] mLimbs := m.nat.limbs[:size] // Each iteration of this loop computes x = 2x + b mod m, where b is a bit // from y. Effectively, it left-shifts x and adds y one bit at a time, // reducing it every time. // // To do the reduction, each iteration computes both 2x + b and 2x + b - m. // The next iteration (and finally the return line) will use either result // based on whether 2x + b overflows m. needSubtraction := no for i := _W - 1; i >= 0; i-- { carry := (y >> i) & 1 var borrow uint mask := ctMask(needSubtraction) for i := 0; i < size; i++ { l := xLimbs[i] ^ (mask & (xLimbs[i] ^ dLimbs[i])) xLimbs[i], carry = bits.Add(l, l, carry) dLimbs[i], borrow = bits.Sub(xLimbs[i], mLimbs[i], borrow) } // Like in maybeSubtractModulus, we need the subtraction if either it // didn't underflow (meaning 2x + b > m) or if computing 2x + b // overflowed (meaning 2x + b > 2^_W*n > m). needSubtraction = not(choice(borrow)) | choice(carry) } return x.assign(needSubtraction, d) } // Mod calculates out = x mod m. // // This works regardless how large the value of x is. // // The output will be resized to the size of m and overwritten. func (out *Nat) Mod(x *Nat, m *Modulus) *Nat { out.resetFor(m) // Working our way from the most significant to the least significant limb, // we can insert each limb at the least significant position, shifting all // previous limbs left by _W. This way each limb will get shifted by the // correct number of bits. We can insert at least N - 1 limbs without // overflowing m. After that, we need to reduce every time we shift. i := len(x.limbs) - 1 // For the first N - 1 limbs we can skip the actual shifting and position // them at the shifted position, which starts at min(N - 2, i). start := len(m.nat.limbs) - 2 if i < start { start = i } for j := start; j >= 0; j-- { out.limbs[j] = x.limbs[i] i-- } // We shift in the remaining limbs, reducing modulo m each time. for i >= 0 { out.shiftIn(x.limbs[i], m) i-- } return out } // ExpandFor ensures x has the right size to work with operations modulo m. // // The announced size of x must be smaller than or equal to that of m. func (x *Nat) ExpandFor(m *Modulus) *Nat { return x.expand(len(m.nat.limbs)) } // resetFor ensures out has the right size to work with operations modulo m. // // out is zeroed and may start at any size. func (out *Nat) resetFor(m *Modulus) *Nat { return out.reset(len(m.nat.limbs)) } // maybeSubtractModulus computes x -= m if and only if x >= m or if "always" is yes. // // It can be used to reduce modulo m a value up to 2m - 1, which is a common // range for results computed by higher level operations. // // always is usually a carry that indicates that the operation that produced x // overflowed its size, meaning abstractly x > 2^_W*n > m even if x < m. // // x and m operands must have the same announced length. func (x *Nat) maybeSubtractModulus(always choice, m *Modulus) { t := NewNat().set(x) underflow := t.sub(m.nat) // We keep the result if x - m didn't underflow (meaning x >= m) // or if always was set. keep := not(choice(underflow)) | choice(always) x.assign(keep, t) } // Sub computes x = x - y mod m. // // The length of both operands must be the same as the modulus. Both operands // must already be reduced modulo m. func (x *Nat) Sub(y *Nat, m *Modulus) *Nat { underflow := x.sub(y) // If the subtraction underflowed, add m. t := NewNat().set(x) t.add(m.nat) x.assign(choice(underflow), t) return x } // Add computes x = x + y mod m. // // The length of both operands must be the same as the modulus. Both operands // must already be reduced modulo m. func (x *Nat) Add(y *Nat, m *Modulus) *Nat { overflow := x.add(y) x.maybeSubtractModulus(choice(overflow), m) return x } // montgomeryRepresentation calculates x = x * R mod m, with R = 2^(_W * n) and // n = len(m.nat.limbs). // // Faster Montgomery multiplication replaces standard modular multiplication for // numbers in this representation. // // This assumes that x is already reduced mod m. func (x *Nat) montgomeryRepresentation(m *Modulus) *Nat { // A Montgomery multiplication (which computes a * b / R) by R * R works out // to a multiplication by R, which takes the value out of the Montgomery domain. return x.montgomeryMul(x, m.rr, m) } // montgomeryReduction calculates x = x / R mod m, with R = 2^(_W * n) and // n = len(m.nat.limbs). // // This assumes that x is already reduced mod m. func (x *Nat) montgomeryReduction(m *Modulus) *Nat { // By Montgomery multiplying with 1 not in Montgomery representation, we // convert out back from Montgomery representation, because it works out to // dividing by R. one := NewNat().ExpandFor(m) one.limbs[0] = 1 return x.montgomeryMul(x, one, m) } // montgomeryMul calculates x = a * b / R mod m, with R = 2^(_W * n) and // n = len(m.nat.limbs), also known as a Montgomery multiplication. // // All inputs should be the same length and already reduced modulo m. // x will be resized to the size of m and overwritten. func (x *Nat) montgomeryMul(a *Nat, b *Nat, m *Modulus) *Nat { n := len(m.nat.limbs) mLimbs := m.nat.limbs[:n] aLimbs := a.limbs[:n] bLimbs := b.limbs[:n] switch n { default: // Attempt to use a stack-allocated backing array. T := make([]uint, 0, preallocLimbs*2) if cap(T) < n*2 { T = make([]uint, 0, n*2) } T = T[:n*2] // This loop implements Word-by-Word Montgomery Multiplication, as // described in Algorithm 4 (Fig. 3) of "Efficient Software // Implementations of Modular Exponentiation" by Shay Gueron // [https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/239.pdf]. var c uint for i := 0; i < n; i++ { _ = T[n+i] // bounds check elimination hint // Step 1 (T = a × b) is computed as a large pen-and-paper column // multiplication of two numbers with n base-2^_W digits. If we just // wanted to produce 2n-wide T, we would do // // for i := 0; i < n; i++ { // d := bLimbs[i] // T[n+i] = addMulVVW(T[i:n+i], aLimbs, d) // } // // where d is a digit of the multiplier, T[i:n+i] is the shifted // position of the product of that digit, and T[n+i] is the final carry. // Note that T[i] isn't modified after processing the i-th digit. // // Instead of running two loops, one for Step 1 and one for Steps 2–6, // the result of Step 1 is computed during the next loop. This is // possible because each iteration only uses T[i] in Step 2 and then // discards it in Step 6. d := bLimbs[i] c1 := addMulVVW(T[i:n+i], aLimbs, d) // Step 6 is replaced by shifting the virtual window we operate // over: T of the algorithm is T[i:] for us. That means that T1 in // Step 2 (T mod 2^_W) is simply T[i]. k0 in Step 3 is our m0inv. Y := T[i] * m.m0inv // Step 4 and 5 add Y × m to T, which as mentioned above is stored // at T[i:]. The two carries (from a × d and Y × m) are added up in // the next word T[n+i], and the carry bit from that addition is // brought forward to the next iteration. c2 := addMulVVW(T[i:n+i], mLimbs, Y) T[n+i], c = bits.Add(c1, c2, c) } // Finally for Step 7 we copy the final T window into x, and subtract m // if necessary (which as explained in maybeSubtractModulus can be the // case both if x >= m, or if x overflowed). // // The paper suggests in Section 4 that we can do an "Almost Montgomery // Multiplication" by subtracting only in the overflow case, but the // cost is very similar since the constant time subtraction tells us if // x >= m as a side effect, and taking care of the broken invariant is // highly undesirable (see https://go.dev/issue/13907). copy(x.reset(n).limbs, T[n:]) x.maybeSubtractModulus(choice(c), m) // The following specialized cases follow the exact same algorithm, but // optimized for the sizes most used in RSA. addMulVVW is implemented in // assembly with loop unrolling depending on the architecture and bounds // checks are removed by the compiler thanks to the constant size. case 1024 / _W: const n = 1024 / _W // compiler hint T := make([]uint, n*2) var c uint for i := 0; i < n; i++ { d := bLimbs[i] c1 := addMulVVW1024(&T[i], &aLimbs[0], d) Y := T[i] * m.m0inv c2 := addMulVVW1024(&T[i], &mLimbs[0], Y) T[n+i], c = bits.Add(c1, c2, c) } copy(x.reset(n).limbs, T[n:]) x.maybeSubtractModulus(choice(c), m) case 1536 / _W: const n = 1536 / _W // compiler hint T := make([]uint, n*2) var c uint for i := 0; i < n; i++ { d := bLimbs[i] c1 := addMulVVW1536(&T[i], &aLimbs[0], d) Y := T[i] * m.m0inv c2 := addMulVVW1536(&T[i], &mLimbs[0], Y) T[n+i], c = bits.Add(c1, c2, c) } copy(x.reset(n).limbs, T[n:]) x.maybeSubtractModulus(choice(c), m) case 2048 / _W: const n = 2048 / _W // compiler hint T := make([]uint, n*2) var c uint for i := 0; i < n; i++ { d := bLimbs[i] c1 := addMulVVW2048(&T[i], &aLimbs[0], d) Y := T[i] * m.m0inv c2 := addMulVVW2048(&T[i], &mLimbs[0], Y) T[n+i], c = bits.Add(c1, c2, c) } copy(x.reset(n).limbs, T[n:]) x.maybeSubtractModulus(choice(c), m) } return x } // addMulVVW multiplies the multi-word value x by the single-word value y, // adding the result to the multi-word value z and returning the final carry. // It can be thought of as one row of a pen-and-paper column multiplication. func addMulVVW(z, x []uint, y uint) (carry uint) { _ = x[len(z)-1] // bounds check elimination hint for i := range z { hi, lo := bits.Mul(x[i], y) lo, c := bits.Add(lo, z[i], 0) // We use bits.Add with zero to get an add-with-carry instruction that // absorbs the carry from the previous bits.Add. hi, _ = bits.Add(hi, 0, c) lo, c = bits.Add(lo, carry, 0) hi, _ = bits.Add(hi, 0, c) carry = hi z[i] = lo } return carry } // Mul calculates x = x * y mod m. // // The length of both operands must be the same as the modulus. Both operands // must already be reduced modulo m. func (x *Nat) Mul(y *Nat, m *Modulus) *Nat { // A Montgomery multiplication by a value out of the Montgomery domain // takes the result out of Montgomery representation. xR := NewNat().set(x).montgomeryRepresentation(m) // xR = x * R mod m return x.montgomeryMul(xR, y, m) // x = xR * y / R mod m } // Exp calculates out = x^e mod m. // // The exponent e is represented in big-endian order. The output will be resized // to the size of m and overwritten. x must already be reduced modulo m. func (out *Nat) Exp(x *Nat, e []byte, m *Modulus) *Nat { // We use a 4 bit window. For our RSA workload, 4 bit windows are faster // than 2 bit windows, but use an extra 12 nats worth of scratch space. // Using bit sizes that don't divide 8 are more complex to implement, but // are likely to be more efficient if necessary. table := [(1 << 4) - 1]*Nat{ // table[i] = x ^ (i+1) // newNat calls are unrolled so they are allocated on the stack. NewNat(), NewNat(), NewNat(), NewNat(), NewNat(), NewNat(), NewNat(), NewNat(), NewNat(), NewNat(), NewNat(), NewNat(), NewNat(), NewNat(), NewNat(), } table[0].set(x).montgomeryRepresentation(m) for i := 1; i < len(table); i++ { table[i].montgomeryMul(table[i-1], table[0], m) } out.resetFor(m) out.limbs[0] = 1 out.montgomeryRepresentation(m) tmp := NewNat().ExpandFor(m) for _, b := range e { for _, j := range []int{4, 0} { // Square four times. Optimization note: this can be implemented // more efficiently than with generic Montgomery multiplication. out.montgomeryMul(out, out, m) out.montgomeryMul(out, out, m) out.montgomeryMul(out, out, m) out.montgomeryMul(out, out, m) // Select x^k in constant time from the table. k := uint((b >> j) & 0b1111) for i := range table { tmp.assign(ctEq(k, uint(i+1)), table[i]) } // Multiply by x^k, discarding the result if k = 0. tmp.montgomeryMul(out, tmp, m) out.assign(not(ctEq(k, 0)), tmp) } } return out.montgomeryReduction(m) } // ExpShortVarTime calculates out = x^e mod m. // // The output will be resized to the size of m and overwritten. x must already // be reduced modulo m. This leaks the exponent through timing side-channels. func (out *Nat) ExpShortVarTime(x *Nat, e uint, m *Modulus) *Nat { // For short exponents, precomputing a table and using a window like in Exp // doesn't pay off. Instead, we do a simple conditional square-and-multiply // chain, skipping the initial run of zeroes. xR := NewNat().set(x).montgomeryRepresentation(m) out.set(xR) for i := bits.UintSize - bitLen(e) + 1; i < bits.UintSize; i++ { out.montgomeryMul(out, out, m) if k := (e >> (bits.UintSize - i - 1)) & 1; k != 0 { out.montgomeryMul(out, xR, m) } } return out.montgomeryReduction(m) }