Expose SkToBigInt for usage from other packages & repos

Add utils.ElementArrayToBigIntArray

babyjub/eddsa.go

@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ func NewRandPrivKey() PrivateKey {
 // Scalar converts a private key into the scalar value s following the EdDSA
 // standard, and using blake-512 hash.
 func (k *PrivateKey) Scalar() *PrivKeyScalar {
+	s := SkToBigInt(k)
+	return NewPrivKeyScalar(s)
+}
+
+// SkToBigInt converts a private key into the *big.Int value following the
+// EdDSA standard, and using blake-512 hash
+func SkToBigInt(k *PrivateKey) *big.Int {
 	sBuf := Blake512(k[:])
 	sBuf32 := [32]byte{}
 	copy(sBuf32[:], sBuf[:32])
@@ -43,7 +50,7 @@ func (k *PrivateKey) Scalar() *PrivKeyScalar {
 	s := new(big.Int)
 	utils.SetBigIntFromLEBytes(s, sBuf32[:])
 	s.Rsh(s, 3)
-	return NewPrivKeyScalar(s)
+	return s
 }
 
 // Pub returns the public key corresponding to a private key.

utils/utils.go

@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ func CheckBigIntArrayInField(arr []*big.Int) bool {
 	return true
 }
 
+// BigIntArrayToElementArray converts an array of *big.Int into an array of *ff.Element
 func BigIntArrayToElementArray(bi []*big.Int) []*ff.Element {
 	var o []*ff.Element
 	for i := range bi {
@@ -110,3 +111,15 @@ func BigIntArrayToElementArray(bi []*big.Int) []*ff.Element {
 	}
 	return o
 }
+
+// ElementArrayToBigIntArray converts an array of *ff.Element into an array of *big.Int
+func ElementArrayToBigIntArray(e []*ff.Element) []*big.Int {
+	var o []*big.Int
+	for i := range e {
+		ei := e[i]
+		bi := big.NewInt(0)
+		ei.ToBigIntRegular(bi)
+		o = append(o, bi)
+	}
+	return o
+}