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authorBrian Kessler <brian.m.kessler@gmail.com>2017-07-21 01:19:42 -0700
committerAdam Langley <agl@golang.org>2017-08-09 19:28:40 +0000
commit60b9ae4cf3a0428668748a53f278a80d41fbfc38 (patch)
tree7fe0d85d6dee3ffa955f94e69b7d96d39f8b7b0f /src/crypto/rsa/rsa.go
parent762a0bae06b61f58a3783042167c54752c533aa1 (diff)
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crypto/rsa: drop uneeded parameter in modInverse
The current modInverse implementation allocates a big.Int for the second parameter of GCD, while only the first is needed. This is unnecessary and can lead to a speed up for optimizations of GCD where the second parameter is not calculated at all. Change-Id: I3f042e140ff643311bc3d0b8d192992d4d2c4c70 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/50531 Run-TryBot: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org> Run-TryBot: Adam Langley <agl@golang.org> TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Filippo Valsorda <filosottile.wiki@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@golang.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/crypto/rsa/rsa.go')
-rw-r--r--src/crypto/rsa/rsa.go3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/crypto/rsa/rsa.go b/src/crypto/rsa/rsa.go
index 1de4fcb473..69a2b58a5a 100644
--- a/src/crypto/rsa/rsa.go
+++ b/src/crypto/rsa/rsa.go
@@ -424,8 +424,7 @@ var ErrVerification = errors.New("crypto/rsa: verification error")
func modInverse(a, n *big.Int) (ia *big.Int, ok bool) {
g := new(big.Int)
x := new(big.Int)
- y := new(big.Int)
- g.GCD(x, y, a, n)
+ g.GCD(x, nil, a, n)
if g.Cmp(bigOne) != 0 {
// In this case, a and n aren't coprime and we cannot calculate
// the inverse. This happens because the values of n are nearly