RFR 8208698: Improved ECC Implementation

[Adam Petcher]

On 12/7/2018 1:12 AM, Anthony Scarpino wrote:

> I don't have any code comments to add to your code. It's pretty clean 
> and mostly algorithm code which the known answer tests will do a 
> better job of judging correctness.
>
> One comment I did have was if there were any implications from using 
> little endian on sparcv9?  This code will never interact with the 
> native ECC code on big endian processors?  Did you/can you run sparcv9 
> regressions tests?


I wouldn't expect any byte order issues, since there is no interaction 
with native code, direct byte buffers, etc. I ran regression tests 
(including ECC KATs) on sparcv9, and I didn't get any failures. This new 
implementation is not used by default on Solaris due to the provider 
order---I changed the provider order during this test to make sure I was 
actually testing the SunEC implementation.


>
> Tony