crypto-defects.md


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Here is an incomplete list of defects in cryptographic implementations. We
should make sure our verification rules out the possibility of similar mistakes
appearing in our code.

| Reference                                                           | Specification               | Implementation              | Defect        |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------- | --------------------------- | ------------- |
| [openssl#3607](https://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=3607)  | P256 field element squaring | 64-bit Montgomery form, asm | limb overflow |
| [go#13515](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/13515)               | Modular exponentiation      | uintptr-sized Montgomery form, Go | carry handling |
| [NaCl ed25519 (p. 2)](https://tweetnacl.cr.yp.to/tweetnacl-20131229.pdf) | F25519 mul, square          | 64-bit pseudo-Mersenne, qhasm     | carry handling |