At the middleware we were defining some types that actually are dependant on the
backend no matter how we define them in the middleware.
For example, we were hardcoding the `Hash` and `Value` types and their related
behaviour (eg. `.to_fields()`) to be based on the length of 4 field elements,
but that's not a choice of the middleware, and in fact this is determined by the
backend itself. On the same time, those types and related methods do not belong
to the backend, since conceptually they are part of the middleware reasoning.
The intention of this PR is not to prematurely abstract the library, but to
avoid inconsistencies where a type or parameter is defined in the middleware to
have certain carachteristic and later in the backend it gets used differently.
The idea is that those types and parameters (eg. lengths) have a single source
of truth in the code; and in the case of the "base types" (hash, value, etc)
this is determined by the backend being used under the hood, not by a choice of
the middleware parameters.
The idea with this approach, is that the frontend & middleware should not need
to import the proving library used by the backend (eg. plonky2, plonky3, etc).
As mentioned earlier, the `Hash` and `Value` types are types belonging at the
middleware, and is the middleware who reasons about them, but depending on the
backend being used, the `Hash` and `Value` types will have different sizes. So
it's the backend being used who actually defines their nature under the hood.
For example with a plonky2 backend, these types will have a length of 4 field
elements, whereas with a plonky3 backend they will have a length of 8 field
eleements.
Note that his approach does not introduce new traits or abstract code, just
makes use of rust features to define 'base types' that are being used in the
middleware.
* wip
* prototype custom predicates 1b
* feat: implement custom pred recursion
* files reorg, add github CI for rustfmt checks
* start sparsemerkletree. impl add_leaf method, initial Leaf & Intermediate types with methods
* mt: add hash computation of all the nodes in the tree, add method to print the tree to visualize it as a graphviz
* mt: add (till the leaf) method which is used by get,contains,prove methods
* mt: add verify (of inclusion) method
* mt: update 'down' method to reuse siblings, update get,contains,prove methods (the three use 'down' under the hood)
* Add nonexistence proofs and iterator
* Add iterator test
* migrate usage of old merkletree to the new merkletree impl in POD2 code
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Co-authored-by: Eduard S. <eduardsanou@posteo.net>
Co-authored-by: Ahmad <root@ahmadafuni.com>
* Experiment with statement & op enums
* Clean-up & fixes
* More clean-up
* Add argument length checks
* More clean-up
* Place statement and operation logic in submodules
* Implement Containers (Dictionary,Set,Array) on top of MerkleTree. And restructure the code.
- Reorganize the code grouping backends, middleware, frontend, (crypto) primitives.
- Add types Dictionary,Set,Array at the middleware layer, so that
it can be used both by the backend and frontend. The Dictionary, Set,
Array use the merkletree differently as specified at
f2575d1524/book/src/values.md (dictionary-array-set)
- The containers introduce the trait Container, which has the
method 'cm()'. At the current version this uses a merkletree
under the hood, and the method 'cm' returns the merkle root.
- Ideally neither frontend nor backend use the MerkleTree type, and they
use the wrappers {Dictionary,Set,Array}. Note that the current commit
the MerkleTree is used at the mock-backend to check internal values, but
not at the struct types.
- updated the spec's merkletree section updating the defined interface
- add github ci to run the tests
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Co-authored-by: Ahmad Afuni <root@ahmadafuni.com>
Co-authored-by: Eduard S. <eduardsanou@posteo.net>
* Progress towards mock MainPod verification
* add MockMainPod.pub_statements logic so that when originid==SELF it is replaced by self.id()
* Basic op checking for mock MainPOD
* More op checking
* wip
* feat: add great boy example
* feat: put examples under cfg(test)
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Co-authored-by: Ahmad <root@ahmadafuni.com>
Co-authored-by: arnaucube <git@arnaucube.com>
