Replace Ciphersuite::hash_to_F

The prior-present `Ciphersuite::hash_to_F` was a sin. Implementations took a
DST, yet were not require to securely handle it. It was also biased towards the
requirements of `modular-frost` as `ciphersuite` was originally written all
those years ago, when `modular-frost` had needs exceeding what `ff`, `group`
satisfied.

Now, the hash is bound to produce an output which can be converted to a scalar
with `ff::FromUniformBytes`. A new `hash_to_F`, which accepts a single argument
of the value to hash (removing the potential to insecurely handle the DST by
removing the DST entirely). Due to `digest` yielding a `GenericArray`, yet
`FromUniformBytes` taking a `const usize`, the `ciphersuite` crate now defines
a `FromUniformBytes` trait taking an array (then implemented for all satisfiers
of `ff::FromUniformBytes`). In order to get the array type from the
`GenericArray`, the output of the hash, `digest` is updated to the `0.11`
release candidate which moves to `flexible-array` which solves that problem.

The existing, specific `hash_to_F` functions have been moved to `modular-frost`
as necessary.

`flexible-array` itself is patched to a fork due to
https://github.com/RustCrypto/hybrid-array/issues/131.
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Luke Parker
2025-08-29 05:04:03 -04:00
parent a4811c9a41
commit 90bc364f9f
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ license = "AGPL-3.0-only"
repository = "https://github.com/serai-dex/serai/tree/develop/coordinator/tributary-sdk"
authors = ["Luke Parker <lukeparker5132@gmail.com>"]
edition = "2021"
rust-version = "1.79"
rust-version = "1.85"
[package.metadata.docs.rs]
all-features = true