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.
This commit is contained in:
Luke Parker
2025-08-29 05:04:03 -04:00
parent a4811c9a41
commit 90bc364f9f
37 changed files with 355 additions and 416 deletions

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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ repository = "https://github.com/serai-dex/serai/tree/develop/crypto/ciphersuite
authors = ["Luke Parker <lukeparker5132@gmail.com>"]
keywords = ["ciphersuite", "ff", "group"]
edition = "2021"
rust-version = "1.73"
rust-version = "1.85"
[package.metadata.docs.rs]
all-features = true
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ rand_core = { version = "0.6", default-features = false }
zeroize = { version = "^1.5", default-features = false, features = ["derive"] }
subtle = { version = "^2.4", default-features = false }
digest = { version = "0.10", default-features = false, features = ["core-api"] }
digest = { version = "0.11.0-rc.0", default-features = false, features = ["block-api"] }
transcript = { package = "flexible-transcript", path = "../transcript", version = "^0.3.2", default-features = false }
ff = { version = "0.13", default-features = false, features = ["bits"] }
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ rand_core = { version = "0.6", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
ff-group-tests = { version = "0.13", path = "../ff-group-tests" }
[features]
alloc = ["std-shims"]
alloc = ["std-shims", "ff/alloc"]
std = [
"alloc",
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ std = [
"zeroize/std",
"subtle/std",
"digest/std",
"transcript/std",
"ff/std",