Previously, it would generate a prime candidate, test it, and abort if
that candidate failed to be prime. Now, it's even willing to fail
_before_ generating a prime candidate, if the first attempt to even do
that is unsuccessful.
This doesn't affect the existing use case of pcs_set_oneshot, which is
during generation of a safe prime (as implemented by test/primegen.py
--safe), where you want to make a PrimeCandidateSource that can only
return 2p+1 for your existing prime p, and then abort if that fails
the next step of testing. In that situation, the PrimeCandidateSource
will never fail to generate its first output anyway.
But these changed semantics will become useful in another use I'm
about to find for one-shot mode.
I've moved it from mpunsafe.c into the main mpint.c, and renamed it
mp_mod_known_integer, because now it manages to avoid leaking
information about the mp_int you give it.
It can still potentially leak information about the small _modulus_
integer - hence the word 'known' in the new function name. This won't
be a problem in any existing use of the function, because it's used
during prime generation to check divisibility by all the small primes,
and optionally also check for residue 1 mod the RSA public exponent.
But all those values are well known and not secret.
This removes one source of side-channel leakage from prime generation.