// Decrypt takes two integers, resulting from an ElGamal encryption, and
// returns the plaintext of the message. An error can result only if the
// ciphertext is invalid. Users should keep in mind that this is a padding
// oracle and thus, if exposed to an adaptive chosen ciphertext attack, can
// be used to break the cryptosystem. See ``Chosen Ciphertext Attacks
// Against Protocols Based on the RSA Encryption Standard PKCS #1'', Daniel
// Bleichenbacher, Advances in Cryptology (Crypto '98),
func Decrypt(priv *PrivateKey, c1, c2 *big.Int) (msg []byte, err error) {
s := new(big.Int).Exp(c1, priv.X, priv.P)
s.ModInverse(s, priv.P)
s.Mul(s, c2)
s.Mod(s, priv.P)
em := s.Bytes()
firstByteIsTwo := subtle.ConstantTimeByteEq(em[0], 2)
// The remainder of the plaintext must be a string of non-zero random
// octets, followed by a 0, followed by the message.
// lookingForIndex: 1 iff we are still looking for the zero.
// index: the offset of the first zero byte.
var lookingForIndex, index int
lookingForIndex = 1
for i := 1; i < len(em); i++ {
equals0 := subtle.ConstantTimeByteEq(em[i], 0)
index = subtle.ConstantTimeSelect(lookingForIndex&equals0, i, index)
lookingForIndex = subtle.ConstantTimeSelect(equals0, 0, lookingForIndex)
}
if firstByteIsTwo != 1 || lookingForIndex != 0 || index < 9 {
return nil, errors.New("elgamal: decryption error")
}
return em[index+1:], nil
}
