* observed to give 40% faster rsa1024 private key operations and 10%
* faster rsa4096 ones, while on AMD64 it improves rsa1024 sign only
* by 10% and *worsens* rsa4096 sign by 15%. Once again, it's a
- * reference implementation, one to be used as start-point for
- * platform-specific assembler.
+ * reference implementation, one to be used as starting point for
+ * platform-specific assembler. Mentioned numbers apply to compiler
+ * generated code compiled with and without -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT and
+ * can vary not only from platform to platform, but even for compiler
+ * versions. Assembler vs. assembler improvement coefficients can
+ * [and are known to] differ and are to be documented elsewhere.
*/
int bn_mul_mont(BN_ULONG *rp, const BN_ULONG *ap, const BN_ULONG *bp, const BN_ULONG *np,BN_ULONG n0, int num)
{
for(i=0;i<num;i++)
{
c0 = bn_mul_add_words(tp,ap,num,bp[i]);
- c1 = tp[num] + c0;
+ c1 = (tp[num] + c0)&BN_MASK2;
tp[num] = c1;
tp[num+1] = (c1<c0?1:0);
c0 = bn_mul_add_words(tp,np,num,tp[0]*n0);
- c1 = tp[num] + c0;
+ c1 = (tp[num] + c0)&BN_MASK2;
tp[num] = c1;
tp[num+1] += (c1<c0?1:0);
for(j=0;j<=num;j++) tp[j]=tp[j+1];