pkc%feat(bls): clean up API to better align with ECDSA, speed up pk_to_g1/sig_to_g2(), add master public key recovery, scalar and point tweaks, follow-up base-sdk#41

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Additional Information

• Follow-up to sdk%feat(num): decouple NumCodec from codec feat, rename to Numeric, fix byte reversal display bug, restore trait use in open enums, drop Hash512 #41

• A share id is a masternode's proTxHash. Upstream keeps the id in a uint256 and base_blob::GetHex reverses on the way out (source) with ToString() being a straight call into it (source), this is the representation used in RPC and logs (source).

  The stored bytes are what the curve receives without reversal. CBLSId copies the uint256 verbatim (source) and hands impl.begin() to bls::Threshold::PrivateKeyShare (source). Public key shares (source) and signature recovery (source) take the same route. dashbls reads the bytes with relic's bn_read_bin (source) which is big-endian (source). The scalar is the stored order read as an integer and not the quoted order.

  One ID thus has two spellings upstream and each spelling is the byte reverse of the other. Only CBLSId prints the stored spelling because it wraps a uint256 but inherits CBLSWrapper::ToString (source) which is a plain HexStr with no reversal in it.

  BlsShareId had both ends swapped. Storage held the quoted spelling while Display emitted the stored spelling; the scalar had to be pulled out of to_bendian() to match intended behavior.

  • The LLMQ corpus could not catch the inversion. Its member_ids array and its per-contribution member_id fields disagreed with each carrying one of the two spellings because the generator sourced them from proTxHash.ToString() and CBLSId::ToString() respectively. c9eefdf did not factor this double reversal and so propagated the error to bls_llmq_100.json5.

• Tweaks parse the scalar canonically instead of reducing it. Fr::from_repr refuses any value at or above the group order because Fr::from_bendian_reduce would fold an out-of-range tweak into the field behind the caller's back.

  • A zero result is refused on both sides. A zero sum hands back a key whoever chose the tweak already knows and the same reasoning refuses the identity on the public side. Fr is Copy and cannot wipe itself on the way out of scope so intermediates are zeroized explicitly.

• pk_to_g1() and sig_to_g2() now lift through blst_p1_deserialize and blst_p2_deserialize on the uncompressed encoding instead of blst_p1_uncompress and blst_p2_uncompress on the compressed one. The point is already affine inside blst's PublicKey and Signature so the round trip skips the square root that decompression pays for y-recovery.

  • lifts_agree_with_decompression pins the new path against the old one including for cancelled aggregates where the result is the point at infinity.

• BlsPublicKey::<S>::recover_shares() is the G1 mirror of the existing G2 signature recovery and operates over a new BlsPkShare<S>.

• BlsPkHash<S> replaces a bare Hash256 as the hash of a public key. The digest bytes are unchanged but they are now scheme-tagged.

Breaking Changes

• BlsShareId now stores the spelling the curve reads and not the spelling upstream. No signature moved but the meaning of the bytes it holds is inverted. Callers building an id from raw bytes must swap from_bendian() for from_lendian() and reductions move from to_bendian() to as_bytes().

  • Callers going through from_hex() or Display with a proTxHash as printed by RPC are now correct where they previously addressed a different participant.

• BlsSecretKey::<S>::generate() has changed meaning to match with its ECDSA counterpart. It is now an RNG helper while IKM-based constructor it used to be is now from_ikm().

• BlsSecretKey::<BlsScChia>::from_ikm() returns BlsError::InvalidKeyMaterial for an IKM shorter than 32 bytes where it previously returned InvalidSecretKey. The IETF scheme already did so and the two schemes now agree.

• BlsScheme::recover_sig_shares() returns BlsError::CountMismatch when ids.len() != sigs.len() where it previously folded the mismatch into InsufficientShares. Fewer than two shares is still InsufficientShares.

• Fr::from_bendian_reduce() is now pub and fallible and returns BlsError::ZeroScalar where it was previously infallible.

• <BlsPkBytes<S> as Hashable>::Hash has changed from dash_num::Hash256 to BlsPkHash<S>. The digest bytes are unchanged.

Added

• BlsPkShare<S> and BlsPublicKey::<S>::recover_shares() plus the provided BlsScheme::recover_pk_shares().

• BlsPkHash<S> and BLS_PK_HASH_LEN.

• BlsSecretKey::<S>::add_tweak() and BlsPublicKey::<S>::add_tweak() and BlsPublicKey::<S>::mul_tweak() and BlsError::InvalidTweak.

  • add_tweak() and mul_tweak() reject any tweak at or above the group order with BlsError::InvalidTweak instead of reducing it and reject a result of zero or the identity.

• BlsSecretKey<S>::verify_pubkey() for parity with the ECDSA API.

Superseded

• Fr::from_share_id() has been superseded by Fr::from_bendian_reduce(id.as_bytes())

• BlsError::ThresholdTooLarge has been superseded by BlsError::InvalidThreshold

• BlsError::InvalidVerificationVector has been superseded by BlsError::InsufficientCoefficients

• BlsError::InvalidShareId has been superseded by BlsError::ZeroScalar

• BlsSecretKey::<S>::generate(ikm) has been superseded by BlsSecretKey::<S>::from_ikm(ikm) for disambiguation.

• BlsSignature::<S>::recover() has been superseded by BlsSignature::<S>::recover_shares() for disambiguation.

• BlsSignature::<S>::verify{,_with}() and BlsSignature::<BlsScIetf>::() have been moved to BlsPublicKey for parity with the ECDSA API.

How Has This Been Tested?

./contrib/git_filter.py --fast-fail develop bls_prep -- bash -c 'cargo clippy --all-targets --no-default-features -- -D warnings && cargo clippy --all-targets --features full -- -D warnings && cargo test --all-targets --features full && nix develop ./contrib/nix#dev --command python3 maint/lint_all.py'

Checklist

• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• I have added or updated relevant unit/integration/functional tests
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• I have assigned this pull request to a milestone (for repository code-owners and collaborators only)

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Walkthrough

The BLS APIs now support deterministic key derivation, random key generation, scalar and public-key tweaks, public-key verification, scheme-tagged public-key hashes, and public-key share recovery. Error variants, threshold recovery, affine deserialization, benchmarks, and tests were updated.

Changes

BLS contracts and key derivation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Error, scalar, scheme, and key-generation contracts pkgs/pkc/src/bls/error.rs, scalar.rs, scheme_*.rs, scheme_ops.rs, secret_ops.rs, share_id.rs	Error variants and scalar reduction APIs were revised. BlsScheme is sealed. Deterministic derivation uses from_ikm, while random generation uses generate.
Public-key operations and tweaks pkgs/pkc/src/bls/blst_ffi.rs, scheme_ietf.rs, scheme_ops.rs, secret_ops.rs, public_ops.rs, sig_basic.rs	The code adds affine deserialization, secret-key and public-key tweaks, and public-key verification. Signature-owned verification methods were removed.
Public hashes and public-key shares pkgs/pkc/src/bls/public_hash.rs, public_bytes.rs, share_ops.rs, mod.rs	The crate adds BlsPkHash and BlsPkShare. Public-key hashing and codec delegation now use the scheme-tagged hash type. Public-key shares can recover a master public key through G1 interpolation.
Call sites and validation pkgs/pkc/bench/bls.rs, pkgs/pkc/src/bls/*	Benchmarks and tests use deterministic key derivation, public-key verification, recover_shares, revised errors, and little-endian share-id construction. New tests cover tweaks, affine lifts, count mismatches, and public-key share recovery.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a9af4

Recovery can produce a public key that cannot round-trip through encoding, and callers lack required migration guidance. Both fixes are localized.

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In `@pkgs/pkc/src/bls/scheme_ops.rs`:
- Line 523: Update recover_pk_shares before the Self::g1_to_pk(recovered)
conversion to reject an interpolated G1 identity point, matching the validation
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• pkgs/pkc/src/bls/ies_bytes.rs
• pkgs/pkc/src/bls/ies_ops.rs
• pkgs/pkc/src/bls/mod.rs
• pkgs/pkc/src/bls/public_bytes.rs
• pkgs/pkc/src/bls/public_hash.rs
• pkgs/pkc/src/bls/public_ops.rs
• pkgs/pkc/src/bls/scalar.rs
• pkgs/pkc/src/bls/scheme_chia.rs
• pkgs/pkc/src/bls/scheme_ietf.rs
• pkgs/pkc/src/bls/scheme_ops.rs
• pkgs/pkc/src/bls/secret_ops.rs
• pkgs/pkc/src/bls/share_id.rs
• pkgs/pkc/src/bls/share_ops.rs
• pkgs/pkc/src/bls/sig_aggregate.rs
• pkgs/pkc/src/bls/sig_basic.rs
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• pkgs/pkc/src/bls/sig_threshold.rs
• pkgs/pkc/src/bls/tests.rs

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