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Make BINARY_OUTPUT serialization formal compatible across word sizes and endianness #26

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tromer opened this issue May 4, 2016 · 1 comment

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tromer commented May 4, 2016

Currently the binary serialization format (BINARY_OUTPUT) is not compatible across machine with different word size. This is documented, but should be fixed.

The format may be endianness-dependent as well.

One place that causes the machine-dependence is the bigint serialization ( operator<<(std::ostream &out, const bigint<n> &b) and operator>>(std::istream &in, bigint<n> &b) in src/algebra/fields/bigint.tcc), which just copies the internal array of mp_limb_t limbs. This is easily fixed.

Are there additional places?

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madars commented May 5, 2016

There are two things that are machine-dependent:

There is the easy-to-fix thing about lengths: it might be the case that 32 * (number of 32-bit limbs) != 64 * (number of 64-bit limbs), so one needs to trim upper bits appropriately. Similar about the endianness.

Another thing is the Montgomery form, which uses auxiliary modulus that is word-size dependent. It is very plausible that there is a relatively cheap conversion (esp. given that we probably only care about 32 and 64 bit architectures), but we haven't looked into it.

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