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CHANGELOG

Pending

  • #772 (ark-ff) Implementation of mul method for BigInteger.
  • #794 (ark-ff) Fix wasm compilation.

Breaking changes

  • #577 (ark-ff, ark-ec) Add AdditiveGroup, a trait for additive groups (equipped with scalar field).
  • #593 (ark-ec) Change AffineRepr::xy() to return owned values.
  • #633 (ark-ec) Generic pairing implementation for the curves from the BW6 family.
  • #659 (ark-ec) Move auxiliary parity function from ark_ec::hashing::curve_maps::swu to ark_ec::hashing::curve_maps.
  • #746 (ark-ec) Refactor fixed-based batch multiplication:
    • Move functionality to ScalarMul::batch_mul and ScalarMul::batch_mul_with_preprocessing.
    • Create new struct BatchMulPreprocessing for to hold preprocessed powers of base.
      • Provide high-level constructor new that calculates window size and scalar size.
      • Provide low-level constructor with_window_and_scalar_size that allows setting these parameters.
      • Make windowed_mul a private method of BatchMulPreprocessing.
      • Rename get_mul_window_size to compute_window_size and make it private.
  • #748 (ark-ff) Add FromStr for BigInteger.
  • #756 (ark-ec) Require Neg, Sub, SubAssign ops on AffineRepr.
  • #767 (ark-curve25519) Change (negate) generator of curve25519 for inter-operability with curve25519-dalek.
  • #811 (ark-serialize) Remove Send trait bound from Valid.

Features

  • #758 Implement Elligator2 hash-to-curve parameters for Bandersnatch.
  • #659 (ark-ec) Add Elligator2 hash-to-curve map.
  • #689 (ark-serialize) Add CanonicalSerialize and CanonicalDeserialize impls for VecDeque and LinkedList.
  • #691 (ark-poly) Implement Polynomial for SparseMultilinearExtension and DenseMultilinearExtension.
  • #693 (ark-serialize) Add serialize_to_vec! convenience macro.
  • #713 (ark-ff) Add support for bitwise operations AND, OR, and XOR between BigInteger.
  • #811 (ark-serialize) Implement Valid & CanonicalDeserialize for Rc.

Improvements

  • #736 (ark-ff) Deprecate divn(), and use core::ops::{Shr, ShrAssign} instead.
  • #739 (ark-ff) Deprecate muln(), and use core::ops::{Shl, ShlAssign} instead.
  • #771 (ark-ec) Omit expensive scalar multiplication in is_in_correct_subgroup_assuming_on_curve() for short Weierstrass curves of cofactor one.
  • #817 (ark-ec) Relax the visibility for G2 ell coeffs and related algorithms.

Bugfixes

  • #747 (ark-ff-macros) Fix fetching attributes in MontConfig macro.
  • #803 (ark-ec, ark-test-template) Fix incorrect decomposition in GLV.
  • #806 (ark-ff) Fix the impl for Displaying zero element in Fp.
  • #822 (ark-ec, ark-test-template) Fix the incorrect Affine - Projective implementation

v0.4.2

Breaking changes

Features

Improvements

Bugfixes

  • #610 (ark-ec) Fix panic in final_exponentiation step for MNT4/6 curves if inverse does not exist.

v0.4.1

Breaking changes

Features

Improvements

  • #603 (ark-poly) Reduce the number of field multiplications performed by SparseMultilinearExtension::evaluate and DenseMultilinearExtension::evaluate

Bugfixes

v0.4.0

Breaking changes

  • #300 (ark-ec) Change the implementation of Hash trait of GroupProjective to use the affine coordinates.
  • #302 (ark-ff) Rename find_wnaf to find_naf.
  • #310 (ark-ec, ark-ff) Remove unnecessary internal PhantomData.
  • #333 (ark-poly) Expose more properties of EvaluationDomains.
  • #338 (ark-ec) Add missing UniformRand trait bound to GroupAffine.
  • #338 (workspace) Change to Rust 2021 edition.
  • #345 (ark-ec, ark-serialize) Change the serialization format for Twisted Edwards Curves. We now encode the Y coordinate and take the sign bit of the X coordinate, the default flag is also now the Positive X value. The old methods for backwards compatibility are located here
  • #348 (ark-ec) Rename msm:{Fixed,Variable}BaseMSM:multi_scalar_mul to msm:{Fixed,Variable}:msm to avoid redundancy.
  • #359 (ark-test-templates) Simplify the field and curve test macros.
  • #365 (ark-ec)
    • Move COFACTOR, COFACTOR_INV, and is_in_correct_subgroup_assuming_on_curve() from {SW,TE}CurveConfig to CurveConfig.
    • Add mul_bits() to AffineCurve and provide a default implementation of mul() using this.
    • Remove duplicate function scale_by_cofactor() from short_weierstrass::GroupAffine and twisted_edwards_extended::GroupAffine
  • #370 (all) Set the minimum rust-version = 1.56 in the manifests of all crates.
  • #379 (ark-ff) Refactor Field implementation and PrimeField trait:
    • Switch from hardcoded FpXYZ to Fp<N> based on const generics.
    • Move Montgomery arithmetic to an optional backend.
    • Rename field_new macros to MontFp, QuadExt and CubicExt macros.
    • Introduce const fns for generating many constants.
    • Add default associated constants to reduce boilerplate.
    • Rename Fp*Parameters to Fp*Config.
    • Add From<u32>, From<u16>, and From<u8> impls for BigInt<N>.
    • Remove FftConfig; move its contents to FftField.
  • #383 (ark-ff) Rename BigInteger::add_nocarry to add_with_carry and sub_noborrow to sub_with_borrow.
  • #386 (ark-ff) Remove PrimeField::GENERATOR, since it already exists on FftField.
  • #393 (ark-ec, ark-ff) Rename FpXParams to FpXConfig and FpXParamsWrapper to FpXConfigWrapper.
  • #396 (ark-ec) Remove mul_bits feature, and remove default implementations of mul and mul_by_cofactor_to_projective.
  • #408 (ark-ff) Change the output of Display formatting for BigInt and Fp from hex to decimal.
  • #412 (ark-poly) Rename UV/MVPolynomial to DenseUV/MVPolynomial.
  • #417 (ark-ff) Remove ToBytes and FromBytes.
  • #418 (ark-ff) Add sums_of_products to Field and Fp
  • #422 (ark-ff) Remove SquareRootField, and move functionality to Field
  • #425 (ark-ec) Refactor VariableBase struct to VariableBaseMSM trait and implement it for GroupProjective.
  • #438 (ark-ec) Rename modules, structs, and traits related to ec.
    • short_weierstrass_jacobianshort_weierstrass
    • twisted_edwards_extendtwisted_edwards
    • GroupAffineAffine
    • GroupProjectiveProjective
    • ModelParametersCurveConfig
    • SWModelParametersSWCurveConfig
    • TEModelParametersTECurveConfig
    • MontgomeryModelParametersMontCurveConfig
  • #440 (ark-ff) Add a method to construct a field element from an element of the underlying base prime field.
  • #443, #449 (ark-ec) Improve ergonomics of scalar multiplication.
    • Rename ProjectiveCurve::mul(AsRef[u64]) to ProjectiveCurve::mul_bigint(AsRef[u64]).
    • Bound ProjectiveCurve by
      • Mul<ScalarField>,
      • for<'a> Mul<&'a ScalarField>
      • MulAssign<ScalarField>,
      • for<'a> MulAssign<&'a ScalarField>
    • Bound AffineCurve by
      • Mul<ScalarField, Output = ProjectiveCurve>
      • for<'a> Mul<&'a ScalarField, Output = ProjectiveCurve>
  • #445 (ark-ec) Change the ATE_LOOP_COUNT in MNT4/6 curves to use 2-NAF.
  • #446 (ark-ff) Add CyclotomicMultSubgroup trait and implement it for extension fields
  • #447 (ark-ec, ark-algebra-test-templates) Rename and refactor group infrastructure, and test infrastructure for fields, groups, and pairings:
    • Create new Group trait and move some functionality from ProjectiveCurve to it.
    • Refactor add_assign_mixedadd_assign that's polymorphic over its RHS.
    • Rename ProjectiveCurve to CurveGroup: Group.
      • Rename some associated types:
        • AffineCurveAffine
      • Rename some methods:
        • batch_normalization_into_affinenormalize_batch
        • prime_subgroup_generatorgenerator
    • Rename AffineCurve to AffineRepr.
      • Rename associated types:
        • ProjectiveGroup
      • Add methods:
        • Add method fn x(&self) -> Self::BaseField that returns the x coordinate of the point.
        • Add method fn y(&self) -> Self::BaseField that returns the y coordinate of the point.
      • Rename methods:
        • zero()identity()
        • is_zero()is_identity()
        • into_projective()into_group()
        • prime_subgroup_generator()generator()
    • Add new ScalarMul trait that encapsulates scalar multiplication routines for arbitrary Groups.
      • ScalarMul trait has a MulBase associated type to encapsulate bases for variable base and fixed-base scalar multiplication algorithms.
      • ScalarMul requires Add<Self::MulBase, Output = Self>, AddAssign<Self::MulBase>, and From<Self::MulBase>.
    • Rename PairingEngine to Pairing:
      • Rename associated types:
        • FrScalarField
        • G1ProjectiveG1
        • G2ProjectiveG2
        • FqkTargetField: CyclotomicMultSubgroup
      • Remove associated type Fqe.
      • Rename methods:
        • miller_loopmulti_miller_loop
        • pairingmulti_pairing
      • Change method signatures:
        • product_of_pairingsmulti_pairing
          • take two references to element iterators instead of an iterator of tuples.
        • miller_loop and multi_miller_loop now
          • take two iterators over impl Into<G1Prepared> and impl Into<G2Prepared> as input, and
          • output MillerLoopOutput, which is a newtype wrapper around TargetField.
        • final_exponentiation now
          • takes as input a MillerLoopOutput,
          • outputs PairingOutput, which is a newtype around TargetField, and which implements Group and ScalarMul, allowing it to be used with the existing MSM infrastructure.
        • Pairings, which are the composition of Miller loops and final exponentiation, are changed accordingly.
    • ark-algebra-test-templates macro syntax is now simplified; see the test files in test-curves for examples.
  • #463 (ark-serialize, ark-ff, ark-ec) Refactor serialization infrastructure to enable more flexibility and less repetition of code:
    • New enum Compress that indicates whether point compression should be enabled or not.
    • New enum Validate that indicates whether type-specific validation checks should be carried out or not.
    • New trait Valid that provides methods for checking whether a deserialized value of a given type passes appropriate validation checks. The trait has the following methods
      • check which checks a single value, and
      • batch_check which checks a batch of values.
    • CanonicalSerialize:
      • New signature for serialize that takes in an argument compress: Compress
      • Old serializeserialize_compressed
      • serialize_uncompressedserialize_uncompressed
      • Every method has a default implementation that calls serialize with the appropriate compress value.
    • CanonicalDeserialize:
      • All types implementing
      • New signature for deserialize that takes in arguments compress: Compress and validate: Validate.
      • deserializedeserialize_compressed
      • deserialize_uncompresseddeserialize_uncompressed
      • deserialize_uncheckeddeserialize_uncompressed_unchecked
      • New method deserialize_compressed_unchecked that performs decompression but skips validation checks.
      • Every method has a default implementation that calls deserialize with the appropriate compress and validate values.
    • The SWFlags enum has been moved to ark_ec::models::short_weierstrass, and has had its variants renamed to be somewhat more descriptive.
    • The EdwardsFlags enum has been moved to ark_ec::models::twisted_edwards, has been renamed to TEFlags, and has had its variants renamed to be somewhat more descriptive.
    • New serialization format for Short Weierstrass curves:
      • Points with a "positive" y-coordinate are serialized with the sign bit set to zero (as opposed to the sign bit set to one in the old behavior).
      • Points with a "negative" y-coordinate are serialized with the sign bit set to one (as opposed to the sign bit set to zero in the old behavior).
      • The point at infinity is serialized with the infinity flag set to one.
    • New serialization format for Twisted Edwards curves:
      • Points with a "positive" x-coordinate are serialized with the sign bit set to zero.
      • Points with a "negative" x-coordinate are serialized with the sign bit set to one.
  • #487 (ark-poly) Refactor EvaluationDomain trait for cosets:
    • Remove method generator_inv.
    • Remove method divide_by_vanishing_poly_on_coset_in_place.
    • Remove coset fft methods: coset_fft, coset_fft_in_place, coset_ifft, coset_ifft_in_place.
  • #492 (ark-ff) Refactor ark-ff APIs:
    • Splits the contents of ff/src/fields/mod.rs into smaller files for easier management.
    • Moves BitIterator out of ark_ff::fields and into ark_ff directly.
    • Adds impl<'a, 'b> Add/Sub/Mul/Div<&'a F> for &'b F
  • #517 (ark-ec) Move the definition of the isogeny map of WB hash-to-curve to a separate struct
  • #519 (ark-ec) Refactor variable-base MSM to be checked by default, returning a Result if the lengths of the bases and scalars do not match.
  • #545 (ark-ec, ark-ff) Rename all *Parameters or *Params to *Config, including:
    • SWUParamsSWUConfig
    • WBParamsWBConfig
    • Bls12ParametersBls12Config
    • G1ParametersG1Config
    • G2ParametersG2Config
    • BnParametersBnConfig
    • BW6ParametersBW6Config
    • MNT4ParametersMNT4Config
    • MNT6ParametersMNT6Config
    • GLVParametersGLVConfig
  • #557 (ark-ff) Change frobenius_map to return the result, instead of mutating the input. Add frobenius_map_in_place for the old behavior.

Features

  • #301 (ark-ec) Add GLVParameters trait definition.
  • #312 (ark-ec) Add is_in_correct_subgroup_assuming_on_curve for all Parameters.
  • #321 (ark-ff) Change bigint conversions to impl From instead of Into.
  • #343 (ark-ec) Add WB and SWU hash-to-curve maps.
  • #348 (ark-ec) Add msm:{Fixed,Variable}Base:msm_checked_len.
  • #364 (ark-ec) Add ChunkedPippenger to variable-base MSM.
  • #371 (ark-serialize) Add serialization impls for arrays
  • #386 (ark-ff-macros, ark-ff) Add a macro to derive MontConfig.
  • #396 (ark-ec) Add a default mul function to {TE,SW}CurveConfig trait definition.
  • #397 (ark-ec) Add HashMapPippenger to variable-base MSM.
  • #418 (ark-ff) Add sums_of_products to Field and Fp
  • #420 (ark-ec) Add a clear_cofactor method to AffineCurve.
  • #430 (ark-ec) Add functionality for mapping a field element to a curve element for hash-to-curve.
  • #440 (ark-ff) Add a method to construct a field element from an element of the underlying base prime field.
  • #446 (ark-ff) Add CyclotomicMultSubgroup trait and impl for extension fields
  • #467 (ark-ec)
    • Move implementation of serialize_with_mode(), deserialize_with_mode(), and serialized_size() into {SW,TE}CurveConfig to allow customization.
  • #487 (ark-poly) Refactor EvaluationDomain trait for cosets:
    • Add constructor new_coset.
    • Add convenience method get_coset.
    • Add methods coset_offset, coset_offset_inv and coset_offset_pow_size.
  • #539 (ark-ec) Implement wNAF-based MSM, resulting in 5-10% speedups.
  • #528 (ark-ec) Allow to overwrite the default implementation of the msm function provided by the VariableBaseMSM trait by a specialized version in SWCurveConfig.

Improvements

  • #302 (ark-ff) Add the relaxed NAF computation.
  • #306 (ark-ff, ark-ff-asm) Make the assembly backend available on stable.
  • #339 (ark-ff) Remove duplicated code from test_field module and replace its usage with ark-test-curves crate.
  • #352 (ark-ff) Update QuadExtField::sqrt for better performance.
  • #357 (ark-poly) Speedup division by vanishing polynomials for dense polynomials.
  • #445 (ark-ec) Use 2-NAF for ate pairing in MNT4/6 curves.
  • #509 (ark-ff, ark-ff-macros) Support prime fields with (64 * k)-bit modulus.
  • #567 (ark-ec) Allow to overwrite the default implementation of the msm function for TwistedEdwards form provided by the VariableBaseMSM trait by a specialized version in TECurveConfig.

Bugfixes

  • #350 (ark-serialize) Fix issues with hygiene whenever a non-standard Result type is in scope.
  • #358 (ark-ff) Fix the bug for QuadExtField::sqrt when c1 = 0 && c0.legendre.is_qnr()
  • #366 (ark-ff) Fix norm() for cubic extension field towers.
  • #394 (ark-ff, ark-serialize) Remove EmptyFlags construction checks.
  • #442 (ark-ff) Fix deserialization for modulo with 64 shaving bits.
  • #460 (ark-ec) Fix a corner case for ate pairing in BLS12 and BW6 models.
  • #521 (ark-poly) Change DensePolynomial::evaluate_over_domain to not truncate terms higher than the size of the domain.
  • #526 (ark-ff) Fix squaring for Fp128.

v0.3.0

Breaking changes

  • #285 (ark-ec) Remove ATE_LOOP_COUNT_IS_NEGATIVE from BN curve parameter trait.
  • #292 (ark-ec) Remove CycleEngine.
  • #293 (ark-ff) Remove ark_ff::test_rng.

Features

  • #230 (ark-ec) Add wnaf_mul implementation for ProjectiveCurve.
  • #245 (ark-poly) Speedup the sequential and parallel radix-2 FFT and IFFT significantly by making the method in which it accesses roots more cache-friendly.
  • #258 (ark-poly) Add Mul<F> implementation for DensePolynomial.
  • #259 (ark-poly) Add Mul<F> implementation for SparsePolynomial and Add<SparsePolynomial<F>>/Sub<SparsePolynomial<F>> for DensePolynomial.
  • #261 (ark-ff) Add support for 448-bit integers and fields.
  • #263 (ark-ff) Add From<iXXX> implementations to fields.
  • #265 (ark-serialize) Add hashing as an extension trait of CanonicalSerialize.
  • #280 (ark-ff) Add Into<BigUint> and From<BigUint> implementations to BigInteger and PrimeField.
  • #289 (ark-ec) Add Sum implementation for all AffineCurve.

Improvements

  • #279 (ark-ec) Parallelize miller loop operations for BLS12.

Bugfixes

  • #252 (ark-ff) Fix prime field sampling when REPR_SHIFT_BITS is 64.
  • #284 (ark-poly-benches) Fix the panic subgroup_fft_in_place benchmark for MNT6-753's Fr.

v0.2.0

The main features of this release are:

  • Adding the ability to define fields with integer parameters
  • Multi-variate polynomial support
  • Multilinear polynomial support
  • Many speedups to operations involving polynomials
  • Some speedups to sqrt
  • Small speedups to MSMs
  • Big speedups to radix-2 FFTs
  • Fix in the assembly arithmetic backend
  • Adding new traits for basic curve cycles and pairing based curve cycles

Breaking changes

  • #20 (ark-poly) Move univariate DensePolynomial and SparsePolynomial into a univariate sub-crate. Make this change by: find w/ regular expression ark_poly::(Dense|Sparse)Polynomial, and replace with ark_poly::univariate::$1Polynomial.
  • #36 (ark-ec) In Short-Weierstrass curves, include an infinity bit in ToConstraintField.
  • #37 (ark-poly) In the Polynomial trait, add Hash trait bound to Point.
  • #38 (ark-poly) Add Add and Neg trait bounds to Polynomial.
  • #51 (ark-ff) Removed unitary_inverse from QuadExtField. Make this change by replacing x.unitary_inverse() with let mut tmp = x.clone(); tmp.conjugate().
  • #53 (ark-poly) Add Zero trait bound to Polynomial.
  • #96 (ark-ff) Make the field_new macro accept values in integer form, without requiring decomposition into limbs, and without requiring encoding in Montgomery form.
  • #106 (ark-ff, ark-ec) Add Zeroize trait bound to Field, ProjectiveGroup, AffineGroup traits.
  • #108 (ark-ff) Add extension_degree() method to Field.
  • #110 (ark-ec) Change the trait bound on the scalar for mul, from (essentially) Into<BigInt> to AsRef<[u64]>.
  • #117 (ark-poly) Make the univariate SparsePolynomial implement Polynomial. Make this change by replacing sparse_poly.evaluate(pt) to sparse_poly.evaluate(&pt).
  • #129 (ark-ff) Move ark_ff::{UniformRand, test_rng} to ark_std::{UniformRand, test_rng}. Importing these from ark-ff is still possible, but is deprecated and will be removed in the following release.
  • #144 (ark-poly) Add CanonicalSerialize and CanonicalDeserialize trait bounds for Polynomial.
  • #160 (ark-serialize, ark-ff, ark-ec)
    • Remove ConstantSerializedSize; users should use serialized_size* (see next).
    • Add serialized_size_with_flags method to CanonicalSerializeWithFlags.
    • Change from_random_bytes_with_flags to output ark_serialize::Flags.
    • Change signatures of Flags::from_u8* to output Option.
    • Change Flags::from_u8* to be more strict about the inputs it accepts: if the top bits of the u8 value do not correspond to one of the possible outputs of Flags::u8_bitmask, then these methods output None, whereas before they output a default value. Downstream users other than ark-curves should not see breakage unless they rely on these methods/traits explicitly.
  • #165 (ark-ff) Add from_base_field_elements as a method to the Field trait.
  • #166 (ark-ff) Change BigInt::{from_bytes, to_bits} to from_bytes_le, from_bytes_be, to_bits_le, to_bits_be.

Features

  • #20 (ark-poly) Add structs/traits for multivariate polynomials.
  • #96 (ark-ff) Make the field_new macro accept values in integer form, without requiring decomposition into limbs, and without requiring encoding in Montgomery form.
  • #106 (ark-ff, ark-ec) Add Zeroize trait bound to Field, ProjectiveGroup, AffineGroup traits.
  • #117 (ark-poly) Add operations to SparsePolynomial, so it implements Polynomial.
  • #140 (ark-poly) Add support for multilinear extensions in dense and sparse evaluation form.
  • #164 (ark-ff) Add methods from_{be, le}_bytes_mod_order to the PrimeField trait.
  • #197 (ark-test-curves) Add a BN384 curve with low two-adicity for mixed-radix testing.

Improvements

  • #22 (ark-ec) Speedup fixed-base MSMs.
  • #28 (ark-poly) Add domain() method on the evaluations struct.
  • #31 (ark-ec) Speedup point doubling on twisted edwards curves.
  • #35 (ark-ff) Implement ToConstraintField for bool.
  • #48 (ark-ff) Speedup sqrt on QuadExtField.
  • #94 (ark-ff) Implement ToBytes and FromBytes for u128.
  • #99 (ark-poly) Speedup evaluate_all_lagrange_coefficients.
  • #100 (ark-ff) Implement batch_inverse_and_mul.
  • #101 (ark-ff) Add element(i: usize) on the Domain trait.
  • #107 (ark-serialize) Add an impl of CanonicalSerialize/Deserialize for BTreeSet.
  • #114 (ark-poly) Significantly speedup and reduce memory usage of DensePolynomial.evaluate.
  • #114, #119 (ark-poly) Add infrastructure for benchmarking DensePolynomial operations.
  • #115 (ark-poly) Add parallel implementation to operations on Evaluations.
  • #115 (ark-ff) Add parallel implementation of batch_inversion.
  • #122 (ark-poly) Add infrastructure for benchmarking FFTs.
  • #125 (ark-poly) Add parallelization to applying coset shifts within coset_fft.
  • #126 (ark-ec) Use ark_ff::batch_inversion for point normalization.
  • #131, #137 (ark-ff) Speedup sqrt on fields when a square root exists. (And slows it down when doesn't exist.)
  • #141 (ark-ff) Add Fp64.
  • #144 (ark-poly) Add serialization for polynomials and evaluations.
  • #149 (ark-serialize) Add an impl of CanonicalSerialize/Deserialize for String.
  • #153 (ark-serialize) Add an impl of CanonicalSerialize/Deserialize for Rc<T>.
  • #157 (ark-ec) Speed up variable_base_msm by not relying on unnecessary normalization.
  • #158 (ark-serialize) Add an impl of CanonicalSerialize/Deserialize for ().
  • #166 (ark-ff) Add a to_bytes_be() and to_bytes_le methods to BigInt.
  • #169 (ark-poly) Improve radix-2 FFTs by moving to a faster algorithm by Riad S. Wahby.
  • #171, #173, #176 (ark-poly) Apply significant further speedups to the new radix-2 FFT.
  • #188 (ark-ec) Make Short Weierstrass random sampling result in an element with unknown discrete log.
  • #190 (ark-ec) Add curve cycle trait and extended pairing cycle trait for all types of ec cycles.
  • #201 (ark-ec, ark-ff, ark-test-curves, ark-test-templates) Remove the dependency on rand_xorshift.
  • #205 (ark-ec, ark-ff) Unroll loops and conditionally use intrinsics in biginteger arithmetic, and reduce copies in ff and ec arithmetic.
  • #207 (ark-ff) Improve performance of extension fields when the non-residue is negative. (Improves fq2, fq12, and g2 speed on bls12 and bn curves.)
  • #211 (ark-ec) Improve performance of BLS12 final exponentiation.
  • #214 (ark-poly) Utilise a more efficient way of evaluating a polynomial at a single point.
  • #242, #244 (ark-poly) Speedup the sequential radix-2 FFT significantly by making the method in which it accesses roots more cache-friendly.

Bugfixes

  • #36 (ark-ec) In Short-Weierstrass curves, include an infinity bit in ToConstraintField.
  • #107 (ark-serialize) Fix handling of (de)serialize_uncompressed/unchecked in various impls of CanonicalSerialize/Deserialize.
  • #112 (ark-serialize) Make bools checked serialization methods non-malleable.
  • #119 (ark-poly) Fix bugs in degree calculation if adding/subtracting same degree polynomials whose leading coefficients cancel.
  • #160 (ark-serialize, ark-ff, ark-ec) Support serializing when MODULUS_BITS + FLAG_BITS is greater than the multiple of 8 just greater than MODULUS_BITS, which is the case for the Pasta curves (fixes #47).
  • #165 (ark-ff) Enforce in the type system that an extension fields BaseField extends from the correct BasePrimeField.
  • #184 Compile with panic='abort' in release mode, for safety of the library across FFI boundaries.
  • #192 Fix a bug in the assembly backend for finite field arithmetic.
  • #217 (ark-ec) Fix the definition of PairingFriendlyCycle introduced in #190.

v0.1.0 (Initial release of arkworks/algebra)