docs: fix broken link to eprint cache.pdf paper
What the developer wrote
Authored by VolodymyrBg
docs: fix broken link to eprint cache.pdf paper
What changed, and why it matters
This commit only fixes a broken hyperlink in a code comment, replacing an outdated academic paper URL with a working one. No code behavior changes.
No action needed; this is a non-functional documentation fix.
Security signals we found
No strong security signals were identified.
Evidence from the diff
The diff updates a single URL in a documentation comment within src/ecmult_gen_impl.h. The old link to https://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/papers/cache.pdf was replaced with https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/271.pdf, pointing to the same paper. No executable code was modified.
Changed components
src/ecmult_gen_impl.h (comment only)Inspect captured patch +1 / −1
diff --git a/src/ecmult_gen_impl.h b/src/ecmult_gen_impl.h
index 16de638..b943fe2 100644
--- a/src/ecmult_gen_impl.h
+++ b/src/ecmult_gen_impl.h
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ static void secp256k1_ecmult_gen(const secp256k1_ecmult_gen_context *ctx, secp25
* (https://cryptojedi.org/peter/data/chesrump-20130822.pdf) and
* "Cache Attacks and Countermeasures: the Case of AES", RSA 2006,
* by Dag Arne Osvik, Adi Shamir, and Eran Tromer
- * (https://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/papers/cache.pdf)
+ * (https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/271.pdf)
*/
for (index = 0; index < COMB_POINTS; ++index) {
secp256k1_ge_storage_cmov(&adds, &secp256k1_ecmult_gen_prec_table[block][index], index == abs);
Why this scored 15/100
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