Remove feature(i128_type)
The `i128_type` feature was recently stabilized in Rust, so this is unnecessary now for nightly users. In fact, in a few days there should be a new Rust beta (`1.26`) containing stable support for `i128_type`, meaning that (for Zcash) we can switch to the beta compiler for all future Rust development, and even switch to the stable compiler in six weeks when that's released.
Release of pairing 0.14.0.
This release makes some changes in response to an audit of this library, as well as some obversations about the API that I made. Some names were changed (`divn` -> `shr`, `muln` -> `shl`) and `add_nocarry`/`sub_noborrow` no longer return anything (as their names would suggest.) Some potentially misleading comments are fixed as well.
The release also applies `rustfmt` and new lints from `clippy` to the codebase, enforced by the CI on a more recent version of the Nightly compiler.
Thanks go to @jasondavies for his contributions to this release.
Expose arithmetic
This exposes `adc`/`sbb`/`mac_with_carry` from this library for downstream use, as long as a `expose-arith` feature is enabled. We need this downstream to avoid code duplication.
This also bumps to `0.13.2`.
Release of 0.13.1
This release features the following changes:
* The `byteorder` version is now set to `1` as conventional.
* The `CurveAffine`/`CurveProjective` traits now enforce that the scalar field of the `Engine` is the same scalar field for the curves.
* `Engine` is now `'static` and `Clone` to avoid problems with lifetime quirks and auto-derives.
* The scalar field of `Engine` is now guaranteed to be `SqrtField` which helps downstream abstractions.
In this PR I will be updating the `clippy` version and fixing any linting problems that show up. The builder should be using the newest nightly/stable versions of Rust also.
Enforce that Fr of Engine is the scalar for curve points
In bellman, I want to write:
```rust
pub struct Point<C: CurveProjective>(pub C);
impl<C: CurveProjective> Copy for Point<C> { }
impl<C: CurveProjective> Clone for Point<C> {
fn clone(&self) -> Point<C> {
*self
}
}
impl<C: CurveProjective> Group<C::Engine> for Point<C> {
fn group_zero() -> Self {
Point(C::zero())
}
fn group_mul_assign(&mut self, by: &C::Scalar) {
self.0.mul_assign(by.into_repr());
}
fn group_add_assign(&mut self, other: &Self) {
self.0.add_assign(&other.0);
}
fn group_sub_assign(&mut self, other: &Self) {
self.0.sub_assign(&other.0);
}
}
```
However, this doesn't typecheck because the compiler cannot know that the `Engine`'s `Fr` type (as dictated by the `Group` trait) is the same as the `Scalar` type of the `CurveProjective` point. This can be solved with a where bound over the trait (for now), but it is generally a good idea for this to be constrained in `pairing`.
Add "scale_by_cofactor".
Add a function for Affine types that multiplies point by the cofactor of the
group. If the points are in the group, they'll thus end up in the
correct subgroup.
note: this patch is already being tested with previous unittests.
note: this patch raises warning for unused functions and consts.
