RFR: 8294731: Improve multiplicative inverse for secp256r1 implementation [v2]

[Daniel Jeliński]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2022 17:37:25 GMT, Xue-Lei Andrew Fan <xuelei at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi,
>> 
>> May I have this patch reviewed?
>> 
>> This is one of a few steps to improve the EC performance. The multiplicative inverse implementation could be improved for better performance. 
>> 
>> For secp256r1 prime p, the current  multiplicative inverse impl needs 256 square and 128 multiplication.  With the path, the operation needs 256 square and 37 multiplication.
>> 
>> For secp256r1 order n, the current  multiplicative inverse impl needs 256 square and 169 multiplication. With the patch, the operation needs  256 square and 94 multiplication.
>> 
>> Here is the benchmark numbers before the patch applied:
>> 
>> Benchmark        (messageLength)   Mode  Cnt     Score    Error  Units
>> Signatures.sign               64  thrpt   15  1412.644 ±  5.529  ops/s
>> Signatures.sign              512  thrpt   15  1407.711 ± 14.118  ops/s
>> Signatures.sign             2048  thrpt   15  1415.674 ±  6.965  ops/s
>> Signatures.sign            16384  thrpt   15  1395.582 ± 12.689  ops/s
>> 
>> 
>> And the following are the benchmarking after the patch applied.
>> 
>> Benchmark        (messageLength)   Mode  Cnt     Score    Error  Units
>> Signatures.sign               64  thrpt   15  1459.527 ± 10.160  ops/s
>> Signatures.sign              512  thrpt   15  1450.707 ± 15.554  ops/s
>> Signatures.sign             2048  thrpt   15  1453.490 ±  5.362  ops/s
>> Signatures.sign            16384  thrpt   15  1437.364 ±  8.291  ops/s
>> 
>> 
>> It looks like the performance improvement is no significant enough for now.  But it may be 2+ times more in numbers when the scalar multiplication implementation is improved in a follow-up enhancement in another pull request.
>> 
>> Enhancement for other curves will be considered in separate pull requests.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Xuelei
>
> Xue-Lei Andrew Fan has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   more performance improvement

could you also try using precomputed powers of t between 0-15? similar to what we do in [ECOperations.multiply](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/2ae8e3118385bdf93c50bca550334734b69bc2b6/src/jdk.crypto.ec/share/classes/sun/security/ec/ECOperations.java#L231) (see `pointMultiples`). This will also improve the number of multiplications.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10544