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| # Constantine's planning | ||
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| This document is current as of June 23, 2024. | ||
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| This splits Constantine's axis of development under various tracks. | ||
| Priority is given to Ethereum, proof systems and optimization tracks. | ||
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| Other tracks are stretch goals, contributions towards them are accepted. | ||
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| ## Table of Contents | ||
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| <!-- TOC --> | ||
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| - [Constantine's planning](#constantines-planning) | ||
| - [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents) | ||
| - [Tracks](#tracks) | ||
| - [Tech debt track](#tech-debt-track) | ||
| - [Ethereum Consensus Track](#ethereum-consensus-track) | ||
| - [Ethereum Execution Track](#ethereum-execution-track) | ||
| - [Proving Ethereum track](#proving-ethereum-track) | ||
| - [Optimization track](#optimization-track) | ||
| - [User Experience track](#user-experience-track) | ||
| - [Technical marketing track](#technical-marketing-track) | ||
| - [ZK and proof systems track](#zk-and-proof-systems-track) | ||
| - [Multi-party computation MPC track](#multi-party-computation-mpc-track) | ||
| - [Core crypto track](#core-crypto-track) | ||
| - [Fully-Homomorphic encryption FHE track](#fully-homomorphic-encryption-fhe-track) | ||
| - [Post-Quantum cryptography PQC track](#post-quantum-cryptography-pqc-track) | ||
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| <!-- /TOC --> | ||
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| ## Tracks | ||
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| ### Tech debt track | ||
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| - Endomorphism splitting bounds guarantee: i.e. division-based vs lattice-based splitting | ||
| - Fix optimized MSM | ||
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| Internal API breakage, which might leak to others using internal APIs. | ||
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| - Expand the library to support named fields and not just curves | ||
| - move and rename the config & constant folder | ||
| - use field instead of curve | ||
| - "named_math/fields_and_curves" | ||
| - matchingOrderBigInt -> BigInt[foo.getOrder()] | ||
| - Delete Mod*(), replace by fieldMod | ||
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| - Twisted Edwards identity/neutral element are on the curve | ||
| and are NOT point at infinity, though they are named like that. | ||
| - isInf -> isNeutral | ||
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| ### Ethereum Consensus Track | ||
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| - Implement cryptography and erasure codes EIP-7594 PeerDAS | ||
| - https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/issues/341 | ||
| - Spec: | ||
| - crypto: https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/blob/29d3a24/specs/_features/eip7594/polynomial-commitments-sampling.md | ||
| - erasure codes: https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/blob/29d3a24/specs/_features/eip7594/das-core.md#recover_matrix | ||
| - executive summary: 2-dimensional data availability sampling for KZG polynomial commitments | ||
| - Prerequisites: | ||
| - Coset FFT | ||
| - KZG multiproofs | ||
| - Polynomial interpolation | ||
| - Fuzzing | ||
| - BLS signatures | ||
| - KZG in https://github.com/jtraglia/kzg-fuzz | ||
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| - Long-term project, unspecified: | ||
| - Secret Shared Leader Election | ||
| - Single Slot Finality | ||
| - enshrined DVT (distributed validator technology) | ||
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| ### Ethereum Execution Track | ||
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| - Keccak | ||
| - with hardware acceleration | ||
| - Hash functions precompiles: | ||
| - RIPEMD-160, Blake2 | ||
| - KZG point precompile | ||
| - Verkle Tries | ||
| - Finish IPA for Verkle Tries: | ||
| - Fix verification outside AddressSanitizer | ||
| - Full test suite coverage https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/issues/396 | ||
| - Fix multiproofs | ||
| - Add IPA and multiproofs to benchmark to compare with other implementations | ||
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| - Fast MSM for fixed base like Trusted Setups and Ethreum Verkle Tries | ||
| - Notes on MSMs with precomputation https://hackmd.io/WfIjm0icSmSoqy2cfqenhQ | ||
| - Verkle Trees - Another iteration of VKTs MSMs https://hackmd.io/@jsign/vkt-another-iteration-of-vkt-msms | ||
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| ### Proving Ethereum track | ||
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| - Proof-of-equivalence for Ethereum KZG: | ||
| - https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/proto_danksharding_faq#Moderate-approach-works-with-any-ZK-SNARK | ||
| - https://notes.ethereum.org/@dankrad/kzg_commitments_in_proofs | ||
| - https://ethresear.ch/t/easy-proof-of-equivalence-between-multiple-polynomial-commitment-schemes-to-the-same-data/8188 | ||
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| - Prerequisites: | ||
| - ZK friendly hash function like Poseidon (there are 2 versions !): https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/issues/294 | ||
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| - Groth16 + on-chain verifier code-generator (solidity/huff/yul) | ||
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| - Long-term project, unspecified: | ||
| - Snarkified EVM | ||
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| ### Optimization track | ||
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| - ARM assembly | ||
| - Finish Nvidia GPU codegenerator up to MSM | ||
| - Implement an unsaturated finite fields backend for Risc-V, WASM, WebGPU, AMD GPU, Apple Metal, Vulkan, ... | ||
| - ideally in LLVM IR so that pristine Risc-V assembly can be generated | ||
| and used in zkVMs without any risk of C stdlib or syscalls being used | ||
| and without depending on the Nim compiler at build time. | ||
| - introduce batchAffine_vartime | ||
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| ### User Experience track | ||
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| - Provide curves_sugar and fields_sugar higher-level with | ||
| out-of-place functions like `+` and `*`. | ||
| - They should be tagged {.inline, noInit.} and just forward to the in-place function | ||
| to guarantee copy elision. | ||
| - Mention lack of control over stack space | ||
| - Guaranteed optimization issue | ||
| - with even up to a dramatic 20% perf: | ||
| - https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/kfs0oe/comment/ggc0dui/ | ||
| - past Constantine large copy bug: | ||
| - out-of-place function lead to bad codegen: | ||
| - https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/issues/145 | ||
| - https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/16897 | ||
| - Mention Rust GCE and NRVO / RVO | ||
| - https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/76986 | ||
| - https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2884 | ||
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| - Shorter names: | ||
| - Rename to EC_ShortW | ||
| - Rename to EC_TwEdw | ||
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| ### Technical marketing track | ||
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| - Create Python bindings | ||
| - provide primitives appealing to cryptography researchers and enabling fast prototyping | ||
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| - Create a Constantine benchmark CLI and UI. | ||
| - Make it easy-to-use from tools like Phoronix test suite | ||
| - Give a single-threaded/multi-threaded, for use in say EthDocker to rank hardware. | ||
| - Integrate building it in CI | ||
| - Goal: the reference cryptographic benchmark | ||
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| - Participate in secp256k1 programming language benchmark: | ||
| - https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/problem/secp256k1 | ||
| - outline: https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/issues/285 | ||
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| ### ZK and proof systems track | ||
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| - Transcripts (Halo2, Merlin) | ||
| - https://zcash.github.io/halo2/design/implementation/proofs.html | ||
| - https://merlin.cool/transcript/index.html | ||
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| - SNARKS: | ||
| - Polynomial IOP (Interactive Oracle Proof) | ||
| Implement BabySpartan (Spartan+Lasso) or Spartan or Spartan2 | ||
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| - Lookup Argument | ||
| One that commits to only small field elements if the witness contains small field elements | ||
| Example: Lasso or LogUp+GKR | ||
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| - Multilinear Polynomial Commitment Schemes | ||
| For efficiency when commiting to small values (for example coming from bit manipulation in hash functions) | ||
| Example: KZG+Gemini/Zeromorph, Dory, Hyrax, Binius, ... | ||
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| - STARKS: | ||
| - Implement small fields: | ||
| - Mersenne31: 2^31-1 | ||
| - BabyBear | ||
| - Goldilocks | ||
| - Optimize small fields with Neon / Avx512 | ||
| - Implement FRI and/or STIR | ||
| - Prerequisites: | ||
| - Erasure codes | ||
| - Merkle Trees | ||
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| Long-term, unspecified: | ||
| - zkML | ||
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| ### Multi-party computation (MPC) track | ||
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| - Implement Shamir Secret Sharing | ||
| - Threshold signatures and Distributed Key Generation for DVT (Distributed Validator Technology) | ||
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| ### Core crypto track | ||
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| - Implement NaCl / libsodium API: | ||
| - Implement the Signal Protocol: | ||
| - https://signal.org/docs/ | ||
| - Implement TLSv3: | ||
| - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8446 | ||
| - Json Web Tokens | ||
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| ### Fully-Homomorphic encryption (FHE) track | ||
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| - Implement lattice-based RLWE: Ring-Learning-With-Errors | ||
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| Long-term, unspecified: | ||
| - Privacy-perserving machine learning | ||
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| ### Post-Quantum cryptography (PQC) track | ||
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| - Implement a lattice-based cryptography scheme |
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