Added documentation to the threshold Paillier key generator

thresholdkey_generator.go

@@ -6,21 +6,32 @@ import (
 	"math/big"
 )
 
+// Generates a threshold Paillier key with an algorithm based on [DJN 10],
+// section 5.1, "Key generation".
+//
+// Bear in mind that the algorithm assumes an existence of a trusted dealer
+// to generate and distribute the keys.
+//
+//
+//     [DJN 10]: Ivan Damgard, Mads Jurik, Jesper Buus Nielsen, (2010)
+//               A Generalization of Paillier’s Public-Key System
+//               with Applications to Electronic Voting
+//               Aarhus University, Dept. of Computer Science, BRICS
 type ThresholdKeyGenerator struct {
 	nbits                          int
 	TotalNumberOfDecryptionServers int
 	Threshold                      int
 	Random                         io.Reader
 
-	//Both p1 and q1 are primes of length nbits - 1
+	// Both p1 and q1 are primes of length nbits - 1
 	p1 *big.Int
 	q1 *big.Int
 
-	p       *big.Int //p is prime and p=2*p1+1
+	p       *big.Int // p is prime and p=2*p1+1
-	q       *big.Int //q is prime and q=2*q1+1
+	q       *big.Int // q is prime and q=2*q1+1
 	n       *big.Int // n=p*q
-	m       *big.Int //m = p1*q1
+	m       *big.Int // m = p1*q1
-	nSquare *big.Int //nSquare = n*n
+	nSquare *big.Int // nSquare = n*n
 	nm      *big.Int // nm = n*m
 
 	// As specified in the paper, d must satify d=1 mod n and d=0 mod m
@@ -29,13 +40,14 @@ type ThresholdKeyGenerator struct {
 	// A generator of QR in Z_{n^2}
 	v *big.Int
 
-	// the polynomial coefficients to hide a secret.  See Shamir.
+	// The polynomial coefficients to hide a secret. See Shamir.
 	polynomialCoefficients []*big.Int
 }
 
-//  preferable way to counstruct the ThresholdKeyGenerator.  No verification
+// Preferable way to construct the ThresholdKeyGenerator.  No verification
-//  is done on the input values.  You need to bu sure that nbits is big enough
+// is done on the input values.  You need to be sure that nbits is big enough
-//  and that Threshold > TotalNumberOfDecryptionServers / 2
+// and that Threshold > TotalNumberOfDecryptionServers / 2.
+// The plaintext space for the key will be Z_n.
 func GetThresholdKeyGenerator(nbits, TotalNumberOfDecryptionServers, Threshold int, random io.Reader) *ThresholdKeyGenerator {
 	ret := new(ThresholdKeyGenerator)
 	ret.nbits = nbits
@@ -95,6 +107,7 @@ func (this *ThresholdKeyGenerator) InitPsAndQs() error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+// v generates a cyclic group of squares in Zn^2.
 func (this *ThresholdKeyGenerator) ComputeV() error {
 	var err error
 	this.v, err = GetRandomGeneratorOfTheQuadraticResidue(this.nSquare, this.Random)
@@ -102,7 +115,6 @@ func (this *ThresholdKeyGenerator) ComputeV() error {
 }
 
 // Choose d such that d=0 (mod m) and d=1 (mod n).
-// See [DJN 10], section 5.1, "Key generation"
 //
 // From Chinese Remainder Theorem:
 // x = a1 (mod n1)
@@ -140,6 +152,12 @@ func (this *ThresholdKeyGenerator) InitNumerialValues() error {
 	return this.ComputeV()
 }
 
+// f(X) = a_0 X^0 + a_1 X^1 + ... + a_(w-1) X^(w-1)
+//
+// where:
+// `w` - threshold
+// `a_i` - random value from {0, ... nm - 1} for 0<i<w
+// `a_0` is always equal `d`
 func (this *ThresholdKeyGenerator) GenerateHidingPolynomial() error {
 	this.polynomialCoefficients = make([]*big.Int, this.Threshold)
 	this.polynomialCoefficients[0] = this.d
@@ -153,6 +171,8 @@ func (this *ThresholdKeyGenerator) GenerateHidingPolynomial() error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+// The secred share of the i'th authority is `f(i)`, where `f` is
+// the polynomial we generated in `GenerateHidingPolynomial` function.
 func (this *ThresholdKeyGenerator) ComputeShare(index int) *big.Int {
 	share := big.NewInt(0)
 	for i := 0; i < this.Threshold; i++ {
@@ -176,6 +196,15 @@ func (this *ThresholdKeyGenerator) Delta() *big.Int {
 	return Factorial(this.TotalNumberOfDecryptionServers)
 }
 
+// Generates verification keys for actions of decryption servers.
+//
+// For each decryption server `i`, we generate
+// v_i = v^(l! s_i) mod n^2
+//
+// where:
+// `l` is the number of decryption servers
+// `s_i` is a secret share for server `i`.
+// Secret shares were previously generated in the `CrateShares` function.
 func (this *ThresholdKeyGenerator) CreateViArray(shares []*big.Int) (viArray []*big.Int) {
 	viArray = make([]*big.Int, len(shares))
 	delta := this.Delta()