nim-groth16/groth16/dynamic/README.md

"Semi-dynamic" Groth16 proofs

This is loosely based on the Dynark paper:

• "Dynark: Making Groth16 Dynamic" by Tianyu Zhang, Yupeng Ouyang and Yupeng Zhang

See also this write-up (mostly following the paper).

Here some details are different from the paper though, and our implementation is noticeably more efficient in practice.

Different versions

We provide several slightly different versions with different tradeoffs

• dynamic/v1: This is a version mostly following the Dynark paper (TODO: sparse convolution algorithm)
• dyanmic/v2: This introduces some of our optimizations:
  • the projection term updates become essentially free
  • we reorder the circuit so that the changes are in a subgroup (TODO)