- middleware:
- Add `Statement::Intro`
- Add `SignedBy` native predicate and operation. The signature is auxiliary data to the operation
- Rename `PodSigner` to `Signer` with a new API (just for signing `RawValue`)
- Removed `NewEntry` operation. Use `ContainsFromEntries` instead
- Remove `KEY_SIGNER` and `KEY_TYPE` which are no longer used
- Merge `RecursivePod` and `Pod` traits
- Change the `Pod::deserialize_data` method to use `Self` instead of `Box<dyn Pod>`
- Extend `Pod` trait with these methods:
- `is_main`: when the pod is Main, in a (recursive) verification its vk will be checked to exist in the vd_set but not if it's intro pod
- `is_mock`: skip some verifications in the recursive mock MainPod verification
- `verifier_data_hash`
- `pod_id` renamed to `statements_hash`
- AnchoredKeys are now a pair of dictionary root and key
- Entry statements are now defined as Contains with literal arguments
- Operations that take Entries now use Contains statements with literal arguments
- frontend:
- Rename `SignedPod` to `SignedDict` (which now contains the dict, public key and signature, and can still `verify(self)`ed)
- The `SignedDict` keeps the method `get_statement` for convenience but now it returns a `Contains` statement that proves the existence of the key in the dict
- The `MainPodBuilder` automatically inserts a `Contains` statement when an operation is added that uses an entry as argument that was not yet "opened".
- Removed the `literal` methods from the `MainPodBuilder` that were loading literals to anchored keys: that was no longer needed after we introduced literal arguments
- backend
- Only verify inclusion of the verifying key into the vd_set if the pod is MainPod. A pod is not MainPod if the first statement is Intro.
- Reject intro pods that have non-intro statements
- Empty pod now returns an intro statement
- Don't insert a type statement automatically in MainPod and MockMainPod. We get rid of the type entry.
- Implement `SignedBy` operation, which uses the muxed table to store signature verifications
- Rename `PodId` to `statements_hash` or `sts_hash` for short. Now this is only used as a hash of the statements for the circuits public inputs.
- Refactor normalization of `self` statements:
- Before: replace values that contain `SELF` by the given pod_id
- After: place the verifying key hash into the Intro predicates
- Update the `RecursivePod` trait to return `vd_set` instead of `vds_root`
- A native verifier requires the entire set to reason about the circuits that have been used in the recursive tree
- Implement serialization/deserialization for `VDSet`
- Remove `DynError` and use `BackendError` instead for middleware functions that wrap or define trait functions implemented in the backend. This is based on the fact that we will only have a single backend enabled at a time, so there's no need for a `dyn Error`
- Move the implementations of `_verify` functions to `verify` and similarly for `_prove`
- Complete the verification of a MockMainPod: the verification of input pods was missing. The inclusion of these input pods in the serialization was also missing. With this change a `MockMainPod` will grow after each recursion. This was expected from the design but was not the case because of the missing recursive native verification implementation.
* apply feedback from @arnaucube
* expose some interfaces for external usage (from introduction-pods)
* add From<MainPod> for OperationArg, add copy op!
Co-authored-by: Eduard S. <eduardsanou@posteo.net>
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Co-authored-by: Eduard S. <eduardsanou@posteo.net>
* migrate from anyhow to thiserror (#190). pending polish error msgs
* Add backtrace and compartmentalize errors
- Include backtraces in the errors we generate. To get this we can't
just return a literal enum, because the backtrace requires a call.
- Related to the previous point: add methods to create errors so
we can include the backtrace conveniently without changing too much
the syntax. So instead of `Err(Error::KeyNotFound(key))` (literal
enum) it will be `Err(Error::key_not_found(key))` (method call)
- Each error should be local to its scope, and each scope should
only return its own error.
- The merkle tree should return `TreeError` and not Error
- The middleware should return `MiddlewareError` and not Error
- With a global Error we can't easily include backend/frontend types in
the error fields, so declare a `BackendError` and a `FrontendError`
and follow the pattern from the previous point
- The Pod traits should be able to return backend errors and will be
used in the frontend; for that we change them to use trait object
Error: `dyn std::error::Error`
* fix error
* apply suggestions from @arnaucube
* rename XError and XResult to Error and Result
* reorg signature
* make frontend custom error more ergonomic
* remove unnecessary feature
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Co-authored-by: Eduard S. <eduardsanou@posteo.net>