Fixed all cases of unsafe BigInteger <-> byte[] conversion.

The BigInteger class we're using supports negative integers and
encodes them with a sign bit. Since in our application we are dealing
with unsigned integers only, we need to disable this functionality by
creating two wrapper functions toByteArrayUnsigned and
fromByteArrayUnsigned.

base58.js

@@ -12,7 +12,11 @@
 		 * Ported to JavaScript by Stefan Thomas.
 		 */
 		encode: function (input) {
-			var bi = new BigInteger(input);
+			console.log(input);
+			// We prepend the input with a zero byte because the BigInteger
+			// implementation treats it as a negative number if any of the
+			// four most significant bits are set.
+			var bi = BigInteger.fromByteArrayUnsigned(input);
 			var chars = [];
 
 			while (bi.compareTo(B58.base) >= 0) {
@@ -55,10 +59,7 @@
 			}
 			var bytes = bi.toByteArrayUnsigned();
 
-			// Remove leading zeros arbitrarily added by BigInteger
-			while (bytes[0] == 0) bytes.shift();
-
-			// Add right amount of leading zeros
+			// Add leading zeros
 			while (leadingZerosNum-- > 0) bytes.unshift(0);
 
 			return bytes;

ecdsa.js

@@ -41,12 +41,20 @@ ECPointFp.prototype.getEncoded = function (compressed) {
 
 ECPointFp.decodeFrom = function (curve, enc) {
 	var type = enc.shift();
+
+	// Extract x and y as byte arrays
 	var xBa = enc.slice(0, enc.length/2);
-	xBa.unshift(0);
-	var x = new BigInteger(xBa);
 	var yBa = enc.slice(enc.length/2, enc.length);
+
+	// Prepend zero byte to prevent interpretation as negative integer
+	xBa.unshift(0);
 	yBa.unshift(0);
+
+	// Convert to BigIntegers
+	var x = new BigInteger(xBa);
 	var y = new BigInteger(yBa);
+
+	// Return point
 	return new ECPointFp(curve, curve.fromBigInteger(x), curve.fromBigInteger(y));
 };
 
@@ -185,8 +193,7 @@ Bitcoin.ECDSA = (function () {
 		sign: function (hash, priv) {
 			var d = priv;
 			var n = ecparams.getN();
-			hash.unshift(0)
-			var e = new BigInteger(hash);
+			var e = BigInteger.fromByteArrayUnsigned(hash);
 
 			console.log("signhash: "+ Crypto.util.bytesToHex(hash));
 			console.log("e: "+ Crypto.util.bytesToHex(e.toByteArrayUnsigned()));
@@ -246,13 +253,12 @@ Bitcoin.ECDSA = (function () {
 			//	throw new Error("Extra bytes in signature");
 
 			var n = ecparams.getN();
-			hash.unshift(0)
-			var e = new BigInteger(hash);
+			var e = BigInteger.fromByteArrayUnsigned(hash);
 
 			console.log("e: "+ Crypto.util.bytesToHex(e.toByteArrayUnsigned()));
 
-			var r = new BigInteger(rBa);
-			var s = new BigInteger(sBa);
+			var r = BigInteger.fromByteArrayUnsigned(rBa);
+			var s = BigInteger.fromByteArrayUnsigned(sBa);
 
 			if (r.compareTo(BigInteger.ONE) < 0 ||
 				r.compareTo(n) >= 0)

eckey.js

@@ -12,9 +12,11 @@ Bitcoin.ECKey = (function () {
 			// Input is a private key value
 			this.priv = input;
 		} else if (Bitcoin.Util.isArray(input)) {
-			this.priv = new BigInteger(input);
+			// Prepend zero byte to prevent interpretation as negative integer
+			this.priv = BigInteger.fromByteArrayUnsigned(input);
 		} else if ("string" == typeof input) {
-			this.priv = new BigInteger(Crypto.util.base64ToBytes(input));
+			// Prepend zero byte to prevent interpretation as negative integer
+			this.priv = BigInteger.fromByteArrayUnsigned(Crypto.util.base64ToBytes(input));
 		}
 	};
 

util.js

@@ -2,9 +2,28 @@
 BigInteger.valueOf = nbv;
 BigInteger.prototype.toByteArrayUnsigned = function () {
 	var ba = this.toByteArray();
-	return ba.map(function (v) {
-		return (v < 0) ? v + 256 : v;
-	});
+	if (ba.length) {
+		if (ba[0] == 0) {
+			ba = ba.slice(1);
+		}
+		return ba.map(function (v) {
+			return (v < 0) ? v + 256 : v;
+		});
+	} else {
+		// Empty array, nothing to do
+		return ba;
+	}
+};
+BigInteger.fromByteArrayUnsigned = function (ba) {
+	if (!ba.length) {
+		return ba.valueOf(0);
+	} else if (ba[0] & 0x80) {
+		// Prepend a zero so the BigInteger class doesn't mistake this
+		// for a negative integer.
+		return new BigInteger([0].concat(ba));
+	} else {
+		return new BigInteger(ba);
+	}
 };
 
 // Console ignore
@@ -48,7 +67,9 @@ Bitcoin.Util = {
 	},
 	valueToBigInt: function (valueBuffer) {
 		if (valueBuffer instanceof BigInteger) return valueBuffer;
-		return new BigInteger(valueBuffer);
+
+		// Prepend zero byte to prevent interpretation as negative integer
+		return BigInteger.fromByteArrayUnsigned(valueBuffer);
 	},
 	formatValue: function (valueBuffer) {
 		var value = this.valueToBigInt(valueBuffer).toString();