* 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
* consistent naming for dbl-width
* Isolate double-width Fp2 mul
* Implement double-width complex multiplication
* Lay out Fp4 double-width mul
* Off by p in square Fp4 as well :/
* less copies and stack space in addition chains
* Address https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/issues/154 partly
* Fix#154, faster Fp4 square: less non-residue, no Mul, only square (bit more ops total)
* Fix typo
* better assembly scheduling for add/sub
* Double-width -> Double-precision
* Unred -> Unr
* double-precision modular addition
* Replace canUseNoCarryMontyMul and canUseNoCarryMontySquare by getSpareBits
* Complete the double-precision implementation
* Use double-precision path for Fp4 squaring and mul
* remove mixin annotations
* Lazy reduction in Fp4 prod
* Fix assembly for sum2xMod
* Assembly for double-precision negation
* reduce white spaces in pairing benchmarks
* ADX implies BMI2
* Fix affine instantiation
* drop concept from the codebase
* Remove alignment requirement, this cases problem in sequences on 32-bit for t_fp12_anti_regression
* slight sparse optim
* Prepare BW6-761 pairing constants
* Extract the basic miller loop from pairings
* template and method call syntax issue
* Layout pairing for BW6-761
* Fix rebasing woes
* Try to match the paper (still buggy)
* Stash BW6-761
* naive removal of out-of-place mul by non residue
* Use {.inline.} in a consistent manner across the codebase
* Handle aliasing for quadratic multiplication
* reorg optimization
* Handle aliasing for quadratic squaring
* handle aliasing in mul_sparse_complex_by_0y
* Rework multiplication by nonresidue, assume tower and twist use same non-residue
* continue rework
* continue on non-residues
* Remove "NonResidue *" calls
* handle aliasing in Chung-Hasan SQR2
* Handla aliasing in Chung-Hasan SQR3
* Use one less temporary in Chung Hasan sqr2
* handle aliasing in cubic extensions
* merge extension tower in the same file to reduce duplicate proc and allow better inlining
* handle aliasing in cubic inversion
* drop out-of-place proc from BigInt and finite fields as well
* less copies in line_projective
* remove a copy in fp12 by lines
* Fix#114 - Negating 0 left the prime modulus, which is working most of the time for everything except for comparison. (also somehow triggers and workaround weird compiler bug where exceptions tracking is activated in macros and all the curve enums were stringified as their ordinal value)
* https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/issues/136 was also fixed, add to anti-regression
* add comment in test
* Fix the pure Nim fallback as well
* Implement a Sage codegenerator for frobenius constants
* Sage codegen for pairings
* Autogen of endomorphism acceleration constants
* The autogen fixed a copy-paste bug in lattice decomposition. We can use conditional negation now and save an add+dbl in scalar mul
* small fixes
* sage code for square root bls12-377 is not old
* readme updates
* Provide test suggestions for derive_frobenius
* indentation + add equation form to sage
* Sage test vector generator
* Use the json vectors
- includes type system workaround: generic sandwich https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/11225
- converting NimNode to typedesc: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/6785
* Delete old sage code
* Install nim-serialization and nim-json-serialization in CI
* CI nimble install force yes
* Add Fp, Fp2, Fp6 support for BW6-761
* Add G1 for BW6-761
* Prepare to support G2 twists on the same field as G1
* Remove a useless dependent type for lines
* Implement G2 for BW6-761
* Fix Line leftover
* Reorg line functions to allow for Jacobian eval
* 2x faster Miller loop!!! with fused line eval double
* Support Line Double Fusion for D-Twists
* Implement fused line addition