Let to pass an arbitrary number of cyphers to PublicKey.Add

`PublicKey.Add` accepts now an arbitrary number of `*Cypher`s.
Previously, it was possible to add only two `*Cypher*` instances and it
was quite unwieldy for a lot of use cases.

The current implementation is backward compatible. It's still possible
to pass just two `*Cypher` arguments, so every project referencing the
library will observe no compilation issues.
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Piotr Dyraga committed 2018-06-28 14:28:05 +02:00
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@@ -40,14 +40,24 @@ func (pub *PublicKey) Encrypt(m *big.Int, random io.Reader) (*Cypher, error) {
return &Cypher{new(big.Int).Mod(new(big.Int).Mul(rn, gm), nSquare)}, nil
}
// Takes two cypher texts and returns a 3rd one that encode
// the sum of the two plain texts.
// Add takes an arbitrary number of cyphertexts and returns one that encodes
// their sum.
//
// It's possible because Paillier is a homomorphic encryption scheme, where
// E(m1) * E(m2) = E(m1 + m2)
func (this *PublicKey) Add(cypher1, cypher2 *Cypher) *Cypher {
m := new(big.Int).Mul(cypher1.C, cypher2.C)
return &Cypher{new(big.Int).Mod(m, this.GetNSquare())}
func (pub *PublicKey) Add(cypher ...*Cypher) *Cypher {
accumulator := big.NewInt(1)
for _, c := range cypher {
accumulator = new(big.Int).Mod(
new(big.Int).Mul(accumulator, c.C),
pub.GetNSquare(),
)
}
return &Cypher{
C: accumulator,
}
}
type PrivateKey struct {