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PPC64LE P-384: public keys and RFC 6979 signatures by the signed seven-bit comb - #4739

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Replaces #4700. It's the same change, restacked onto #4732. Part of #4141 (PPC64LE audit, finding 1). It's stacked on #4732, which is stacked on #4729, so it stays a draft until they merge.

What changes

P-384's [d]G (vg_ec_p384_public_key) and [k]G (vg_ecdsa_p384_sign_k, the core of the RFC 6979 signature) now use #4729's generic comb instead of the Montgomery ladder. The comb uses P-384's table, the one the other targets already share (Impl/P384/CombTable7.lean): 55 windows of seven bits, a 42240-word read-only constant.

The files mirror P-256's:

  • Impl/Ecdsa/P384/PPC64LEComb.lean: p384Comb, p384CombWords, mulGeneratorP384, publicKeyP384Comb and signP384Comb.
  • Proof/P384/PPC64LE/Comb.lean: the comb's configuration, and comb_generator_ok. It needs exponentiation.threshold 512, as Proof/P384/Arm/Comb.lean does.
  • Proof/EcKey/PPC64LE/P384/Comb.lean and Proof/Ecdsa/PPC64LE/P384/Comb.lean: Verified with the table as a constant (Abi.withConsts), and constant time by taint_decide with taintSym.
  • The RFC 6979 core passes the table (cs := p384CombConsts). Its registration requires that VG_P384_COMB is not one of the HMAC table's function names.
  • Removed: the ladder's P-384 public key and signature, their literals and their Verified.

No TCB or Spec change.

Testing

  • lake build and Emit.lean pass on this tree. The only crate changes are in crates/verified-garbage-asm-powerpc64le:
    • ec_p384, the new consts/vg_p384_comb.rs and consts/mod.rs;
    • internal/vg_ecdsa_p384_sign_k;
    • vg_p384_mul moving to the module of its first caller.
  • Locally, under qemu-ppc64le, the P-384 tests pass, including RFC 6979's P-384 public keys and signatures, and Wycheproof.

Benchmark

Benchmarks run 42517206330, scoped to arches=powerpc64, modules=ec_p384 ecdsa_p384, groups=ec_p384_public_key ecdsa_p384_sha384_sign, with base 8c69d0c (#4688's head; same change):

Benchmark Base Head Change
ec_p384_public_key/97 1.83 ms 238.49 µs 87.0% faster
ecdsa_p384_sha384_sign/64 1.93 ms 332.52 µs 82.8% faster
ecdsa_p384_sha384_sign/1024 1.93 ms 334.38 µs 82.7% faster
ecdsa_p384_sha384_sign/16384 1.97 ms 368.18 µs 81.3% faster

Generated by Claude Code

P-384's seven-bit comb (55 windows, the other targets' table,
`Impl/P384/CombTable7.lean`) on PPC64LE's generic comb, as P-256's:
`[d]G` for `vg_ec_p384_public_key` and `[k]G` for `vg_ecdsa_p384_sign_k`,
whose RFC 6979 signature passes the comb's table. The ladder's public
key and signature, their literals and their `Verified` are gone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TKUFHJ728Kwktcff5BR2sx
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TKUFHJ728Kwktcff5BR2sx

alex commented Nov 8, 2026

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Replaced by #4758: the same change restacked onto #4754.


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