This helps identify where the various functionalities are used, or rather, not
used. The `Ciphersuite` trait present in `patches/ciphersuite`, facilitating
the entire FCMP++ tree, only requires the markers _and_ canonical point
decoding. I've opened a PR to upstream such a trait into `group`
(https://github.com/zkcrypto/group/pull/68).
`WrappedGroup` is still justified for as long as `Group::generator` exists.
Moving `::generator()` to its own trait, on an independent structure (upstream)
would be massively appreciated. @tarcieri also wanted to update from
`fn generator()` to `const GENERATOR`, which would encourage further discussion
on https://github.com/zkcrypto/group/issues/32 and
https://github.com/zkcrypto/group/issues/45, which have been stagnant.
The `Id` trait is occasionally used yet really should be first off the chopping
block.
Finally, `WithPreferredHash` is only actually used around a third of the time,
which more than justifies it being a separate trait.
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Updates `dalek_ff_group::Scalar` to directly re-export
`curve25519_dalek::Scalar`, as without issue. `dalek_ff_group::RistrettoPoint`
also could be replaced with an export of `curve25519_dalek::RistrettoPoint`,
yet the coordinator relies on how we implemented `Hash` on it for the hell of
it so it isn't worth it at this time. `dalek_ff_group::EdwardsPoint` can't be
replaced for an re-export of `curve25519_dalek::SubgroupPoint` as it doesn't
implement `zeroize`, `subtle` traits within a released, non-yanked version.
Relevance to https://github.com/serai-dex/serai/issues/201 and
https://github.com/dalek-cryptography/curve25519-dalek/issues/811#issuecomment-3247732746.
Also updates the `Ristretto` ciphersuite to prefer `Blake2b-512` over
`SHA2-512`. In order to maintain compliance with FROST's IETF standard,
`modular-frost` defines its own ciphersuite for Ristretto which still uses
`SHA2-512`.
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.
Fixes `no-std` builds for packages which intended to be `no-std` (without
`alloc`).
Updates a variety of MSRVs to 1.73 due to `flexible-transcript` no longer using
`std-shims` to achieve 1.66 (as `std-shims` requires `alloc`). A future
improvement would be for `std-shims` to have an `alloc` feature and only
provide MSRV shims without it.
flexible-transcript already had a shim to support <1.66. This was irrelevant
since flexible-transcript had a MSRV of 1.73. Due to how clunky it was, it has
been removed despite theoretically enabling an even lower MSRV.
Collisions were possible depending on static label substrings. Now,
labels are prefixed by their length to prevent this from being possible.
All variables are also flagged by their type, preventing other potential
conflicts.
While it was fine as-is, as it only had one variable length property,
this is a bit more robust. Also binds the Curve ID, which should declare
differently even for just different basepoints, and therefore adds two
variable length properties (justifying the transcript).
It was never used as we derive entropy via the other fields in the
transcript, and explicitly add fields directly as needed for entropy.
Also drops an unused crate and corrects a bug in FROST's Schnorr
implementation which used the Group's generator, instead of the Curve's.
Also updates the Monero crate's description.
