* cyclotomic subgroup - 0 is not in the cyclotomic subgroup
* [doc] division is now constant-time
* Mention the newly added Pasta Curves / Halo 2 in README [skip ci]
* Skeleton of hash to curve for BLS12-381 G1
* Remove isodegree parameter
* Fix polynomial evaluation of hashToG1
* Optimize hash_to_curve and add bench for hash to G1
* slight optim of jacobian isomap + v7 test vectors
* try 1.6 CI
* Try CI with 1.6 and windows.
* Bend the knee
* have fun debugging CI
* have fun debugging CI
* more CI spam
* branch -> nim_version
* fight or flight
* properly detect windows
* Fix galore
* 🐍🐍 snake:
* meh give up on parallelizing windows and dealing with windows PATH issues
* ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
* Add specific fromMont conversion routine. Rename montyResidue to getMont
* missed test file
* Add x86_64 ASM for fromMont
* Add x86_64 MULX/ADCX/ADOX for fromMont
* rework Montgomery Multiplication with prefetch/latency hiding techniques
* Fix ADX autodetection, closes#174. Rollback faster mul_mont attempt, no improvement and debug pain.
* finalSub in fromMont & adx_bmi -> adx
* Some {.noInit.} to avoid Nim zeroMem (which should be optimized away but who knows)
* Uniformize name 'op+domain': mulmod - mulmont
* Fix asm codegen bug "0x0000555555565930 <+896>: sbb 0x20(%r8),%r8" with Clang in final substraction
* Prepare for skipping final substraction
* Don't forget to copy the result when we skip the final substraction
* Seems like we need to stash the idea of skipping the final substraction for now, needs bounds analysis https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1057.pdf
* fix condition for ASM 32-bit
* optim modular addition when sparebit is available
* split modular inversion in its own file
* Stash fast GCD inversion https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/972.pdf
* Stash Pornin's bingcd -> issue with inner modular reduction
* Implement Bernstein-Yang inversion
* Avoid Nim checks on signed integers (32-bit runtime issue)
* cleanup: remove old inversion impls
* cleanup: static moduli, move div2
* small comments (skip ci)
* comment cleanup (skip ci)
* fix total iterations on 32-bit
* Add batch conversion to affine coordinates using simultaneous inversion trick
* fix conditional setZero and batchAffine conversion
* cleanup unneeded branches following affine conversion unification
* Fix batchAffine with zero inputs and add fuzz failure to test suite
* Move cofactor clearing to dedicated per-curve subgroups file
* Add BLS12-381 fast subgroup checks
* Implement fast cofactor clearing for BN254_snarks
* Add fast subgroup check to BN254Snarks
* add BLS12_377 optimized cofactor and subgroup functions
* Add BN254_Nogami
* Add GT-subgroup tests
* Use the new subgroup checks for Eth1 EVM precompiles
* add more Fp tests for Twisted Edwards curves
* add fused sqrt+division bench
* Significant fused sqrt+division improvement for any prime field over algorithm described in "High-Speed High-Security Signature", Bernstein et al, p15 "Fast decompression", https://ed25519.cr.yp.to/ed25519-20110705.pdf
* Activate secp256k1 field benches + spring renaming of field multiplication
* addition chains for inversion and sqrt of Curve25519
* Make isSquare use addition chains
* add double-prec mul/square bench for <256-bit prime fields.
* Point decoding: optimized sqrt for p ≡ 5 (mod 8) (Curve25519)
* Implement fused sqrt(u/v) for twisted edwards point deserialization
* Introduce twisted edwards affine
* Allow declaration of curve field elements (and fight against recursive dependencies
* Twisted edwards group law + tests
* Add support for jubjub and bandersnatch #162
* test twisted edwards scalar mul
* Hash to Curve: impl expand_message_xmd
* Try to precompute part of hash to curve at compile-time
* sha256 bench - use the new hashes module
* [WIP] smoke test hash to field
* Implement hash_to_field with expected output
* unoptimized hash-to-curve G2 for BLS12-381
* Don't run sanitizer on hash to field as it uses GC-ed strings
* Add MULX/ADOX/ADCX assembly for squaring 4 limbs
* Add squarings for 6 limbs
* Use the new square assembly where relevant
* Fix 32-bit register name and calling convention
* typo
* Disable MontRed ASM for 2 limbs or less
* Pairing with affine: align API to BLST and Gurvy and common use-case.
* Implement multi-pairing / aggregate verif for BLS12-381 (+2% pairing perf)
* Generalize the optimized miller loop for single pairing
* Immplement the miller loop addchain for BLS12-377
* Miller addition chain for BN254-Nogami
* no Miller adchain for BN254-Snarks
* Update the line test with new tower https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/pull/153
* Somewhat sparse for Fp2 M-Twist
* Implement line by line multiplication for Fp12 D-Twist
* Somewhat sparse Mul for Fp12 D-Twist
* Finish the sparse and somewhat sparse multiplications
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