# GNU GPLv3, see LICENSE """Arithmetic operations on Galois Field 2**8. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_field_arithmetic""" def _gfmul(a, b): """Basic multiplication. Russian peasant algorithm.""" res = 0 while a and b: if b&1: res ^= a if a&0x80: a = 0xff&(a<<1)^0x1b else: a <<= 1 b >>= 1 return res g = 3 # generator E = [None]*256 # exponentials L = [None]*256 # logarithms acc = 1 for i in range(256): E[i] = acc L[acc] = i acc = _gfmul(acc, g) L[1] = 0 INV = [E[255-L[i]] if i!=0 else None for i in range(256)] # multiplicative inverse def gfmul(a, b): """Fast multiplication. Basic multiplication is expensive. a*b==g**(log(a)+log(b))""" assert 0<=a<=255, 0<=b<=255 if a==0 or b==0: return 0 t = L[a]+L[b] if t>255: t -= 255 return E[t] def evaluate(coefs, x): """Evaluate polynomial's value at x. :param coefs: [a0, a1, ...].""" res = 0 xk = 1 for a in coefs: res ^= gfmul(a, xk) xk = gfmul(xk, x) return res def get_constant_coef(*points): """Compute constant polynomial coefficient given the points. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir's_Secret_Sharing#Computationally_Efficient_Approach""" k = len(points) res = 0 for i in range(k): (x, y) = points[i] prod = 1 for j in range(k): if i==j: continue (xj, yj) = points[j] prod = gfmul(prod, (gfmul(xj, INV[xj^x]))) res ^= gfmul(y, prod) return res