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gnark-crypto's `E12.SetBytes` accepts invalid array as valid serialised point

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
cryptography

Research direction

Start by locating E12.SetBytes and the code handling serialized points in Gt. Reproduce the issue with the two 576-byte arrays of 0x00 and 0x01, then inspect existing serialization tests and make the behavior distinguish valid points from these invalid inputs.

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Description

This is for the points in Gt - witnesses are

	f.Add(sliceFilledWithString(576, 0x0))
	f.Add(sliceFilledWithString(576, 0x1))
Dominant language
Go
Stars
5
Forks
12
Avg merge
12d 28m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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